Grants and Funding - for VAT information please see bottom of page

Grants and funding for all Autochair products are available from various charities and organisations depending upon your specific disability.

Below is a list of organisations which you can contact to see if funding is possible. This is not an exhaustive list; you can often get information on local charities or local branches of national charities at a library.

Good Luck!

Motability, Warwick House, Roydon Road, Harlow, Essex CM19 5PX Telephone: 0844 8000 900, fax: 01279 632000, www.motability.co.uk 

Multiple Sclerosis National Centre, 372 Edgware Road, Staples Corner, London, NW2 6ND
Telephone: 0208 438 0700, MS helpline 0808 800 8000, www.mssociety.org.uk 

Motor Neurone Disease Association UK, PO Box 246, Northamptonshire, NN1 2PR
Telephone: 08457 626262, www.mndassociation.org.uk

Access to Work – information is available from the Disability Advisor at your local Jobcentre.

British Limbless Ex-Service Men’s Association, Frankland Moore House, 185/187 High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex, RM6 6NA
Telephone: 020 8590 1124, www.blesma.org 

Spinal Injuries Association, 76 St James’s Lane, London, N10 3DF
Telephone: 020 8444 2121, fax: 020 8444 3761, www.spinal.co.uk 

FunderFinder makes a computer program called People In Need that helps individuals look for funding. They will not do a funding search for you, but you can find out from them where you might do a search locally.

Telephone 0113 2433008, www.funderfinder.org.uk

VAT Information

VAT FREE VEHICLES

 It is possible to purchase a new vehicle at zero rated VAT if the vehicle is fitted with an adaptation prior to it being registered to yourself.

 For a vehicle to be sold VAT free the following conditions apply;

 1)      The vehicle must be substantially and permanently adapted.

2)      The disabled person must use a wheelchair in order to be mobile(a person with a degenerative condition who only uses a wheelchair when the condition requires it also qualifies as a wheelchair user).

Autochair Limited have worked with thousands of car dealers adapting the vehicle prior to it being registered and have saved the customer the VAT on the vehicle itself. This VAT saving can then go towards the cost of the adaptation.

Please ring us on 0800-214045 for further information.

The 2 links below give information on the sequence of saving the VAT on a vehicle and also provides the car dealership with a VAT Zero rated form which they will need you to sign.

• This letter confirms that Autochair products qualify for VAT exemption on new vehicle sale.
  • PDF Document
  • Zipped Microsoft Word Document
• Sequence for VAT exemption on a new vehicle sale and VAT exemption form for car dealer.
  • PDF Document
  • Zipped Microsoft Word Document