Kiama Municipal Council is the custodian of a new Sandcruiser beach wheelchair which will help people with a disability access the beach at Gerroa.
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The chair will be kept at the Seven Mile Beach Holiday Park and is available for anyone to use.
The Australian-made chair is worth about $4500 and was bought with money raised by the Gerroa Boat Fishermen's Club.
The club donated more than $6000 to the Disabled Surfers Association (DSA) organisation for the chair and other equipment.
DSA director Jim Bradley said the association in turn handed over the chair to Kiama council to store and make available to the public in between being used at South Coast disabled surfing events.
Mr Bradley said for many people with a disability, a trip to the beach was just too difficult.
He said Gerroa was recognised as the safest location in Australia for DSA surfing activities with more than 360 people taking part in the 13th annual "hands-on event" in April this year.
The ramp on the new Gerroa footbridge was in the "top three" access ramps in Australia, Mr Bradley said.
He said the handover brought the number of chairs available for public use in NSW to 63.
Mr Bradley praised Kiama the council's continued "willingness to embrace the growing phenomenon of beach wheelchairs being made available along the NSW coastline".
"This Sandcruiser is the second made publicly available in Kiama, the other is at Kiama's main Surf Beach," Mr Bradley said.
"It puts Kiama council in good company with many other NSW Councils who are embracing the move to make some of our beaches more accessible."
Locations and availability of chairs can be found on the DSA website www.disabledsurfers.org.
The Gerroa beach wheelchair is available from the Seven Mile Beach Holiday Park office.
Meanwhile, the DSA 2014-15 season's South Coast events will be held at Mollymook on Saturday, November 15; Thirroul on Saturday, December 6; and Gerroa on Sunday March 29, 2015.
