About Us

CHAD I.L.C (Independent Living Centre) is part of the CHAD Charity Organisation

CHAD "Centre for Help and Advice for the Disabled" provides a wide range of services and products to communities throughout the UK, ranging from counselling and support to disability aids, which we are able to demonstrate at our Independent Living Centre.

CHAD also provides a comprehensive range of ICT and other training programmes through its Information Communication and Technology Centre, covering everything from Microsoft Training and computer building to retail and office administration.

CHAD also has a computer support, sales and repair arm called Assist Computers, which can be contacted directly by phone on 02921 252170, by email on info@assist-computers.co.uk or you can visit the website for amazingly price computer systems, consumables and components at www.assist-computers.co.uk

CHAD helps provide other Charities, Organisations, Businesses and Individuals with a wide range of other ICT services, which include Network installation, web design, domain registration and commercial hosting services, PAT testing (Portable Appliance Testing), vehicle and store vinyl printing, corporate training, ICT product Recycling, to name but a few. Please contact the CHAD ICT department directly for additional information by telephoning 01443 822286, by emailing info@chad-ict.co.uk or by visiting the CHAD ICT website at www.chad-ict.co.uk.

More about the CHAD Organisation

The CHAD Charity Organisation was established in the late 1990's and has grown year by year, developing new projects to help Individuals, Charities, Organisations and Communities throughout the UK.

The Independent Living Centre was the first building to house CHAD and initiated some of the best counselling and support services available, but after many years of supporting the community, local and national funding became more and more difficult to obtain, this would eventually mean the possible closure of the Independent Living Centre and the loss of the vital services it provided to the communities throughout the country.

CHAD decided an alternative means of funding was needed, which resulted in the development of the ICT project and subsequently the Independent Learning Centre and of course Assist Computers. The changes these project brought with with them allowed CHAD to raise funds previously unavailable to it through recycling, training, networks, computer sales, PAT testing to name but a few.

The ICT projects "Independent Training Centre" and "Assist Computers" have only been active since September 2007 and although the services are highly sought after, they still struggle to provide sufficient funds to survive, especially in today's climate, so any assistance is kindly appreciated.

CHAD is currently "NON FUNDED" and has not received any major funding for over three years, so theoretically CHAD is self sustaining as a charity, but this is something which is only achievable through the kindness of the volunteers and the hard work of the committee, who have been a great help and inspiration in the past and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has freely given their time and support, we thank them all.