The Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle Converters’ Association. The industry trade association for companies who manufacture and sell motor vehicles converted to be used by a wheelchair passenger.
The Aims of WAVCA
- To improve the quality and safety of wheelchair carrying vehicles and to enhance standards of customer care
- To improve technical standards in our industry
- To lobby for meaningful legislation for wheelchair passenger vehicles
- To improve customer awareness of the technical standards issues
Why WAVCA Was Formed
- To represent the needs of the industry for improved standards of design and regulation of wheelchair passenger vehicles
- To represent needs of the wheelchair user travelling as a passenger
- To raise awareness amongst consumers about safety and lack of regulation in our market-place so they could make more informed decisions
- To use our experience to influence legislation rather an have inappropriate regulations imposed on us
- To have a strong voice as part of the Motor Industry
- In 1999 WAVCA produced a ‘Code of Practice’ for converters of wheelchair accessible vehicles. This is now the basis of the Motability WAV standard
What Does WAVCA Do?
- Leads on quality standards in our industry, encouraging improved technical and customer service standards in the market-place
- Represents best practice to the consumer
- Protects its members and their clients from risk of poor practice
- Responds to the concerns and needs of our members and to represents them across many sectors of the mobility, healthcare and automotive industry
- This includes major influencers like DfT, VCA, VOSA, SMMT, BHTA, the motor manufacturers, wheelchair manufacturers, key user groups and Motability
- Provides a platform for discussion of key issues and influences policy in relation to our industry and is currently lobbying UK and European government for equal standards for wheelchair passenger vehicles
Get in touch
Please email enquiries@wavca.co.uk for all enquiries.
