Many people face barriers and challenges when it comes to obtaining a driver’s licence. Not having a licence can be a major setback in a young person’s life, making it harder to find employment and holding them back from educational and social opportunities.
Weave’s Driving Change program aims to help people to overcome these barriers, achieve their licensing goals and open up new opportunities in their lives.
"It’s not just a license to drive, it’s a license to live."
- Mick Gooda, Royal Commissioner for the Royal Commission into the Child Protection and Youth Detention Systems of the Northern Territory
Our Driving Change participants, volunteers and team members speak about their experience with the program.
Program Details
Getting your L’s: We can help you study for and take you to the Driver Knowledge Test. We can also help with the cost of the test.
Instructors: Driving Change has professional driving instructors who can provide professional lessons to Driving Change participants.
Cars: We have automatic and manual vehicles for our professional lessons.
If you do not have access to a roadworthy car to practice driving, you can borrow one of these cars, if you have someone who is willing to teach you to drive using our vehicle. If you choose to bring your own driver, they need to be over 25 and have a full NSW drivers licence and a be willing to obtain a Working with Children Check.
Please note:
We are currently not accepting applications for driving with a volunteer to gain experience on the road and help people under the age of 25 to get their 120 logbook hours due to an extensive waitlist.
However, we encourage you to fill in the application form if you meet the criteria above and need help with:
- Getting your Ls: We can help you study for the Driver Knowledge Test and can help with the cost of the test
OR - Instructors: We can help with professional driving instructors who can provide up to 5 professions lessons to get ready for your driving test
OR - Cars: We can help with automatic and manual cars for you to drive with if you have your own fully licensed driver over 25 years to drive with our cars.
172
Clients supported in 2022 - 2023
163
People supported to take their L's and P's tests in 2022 - 2023
3.068
Total number of driving hours 2022 - 2023
2,441
Hours spent with our volunteers in 2022 - 2023
One of our Driving Change participants with her volunteer driving instructor.
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