The National League of the Blind and Disabled (NLBD), currently a section within the Community trade union, was a trade union in its own right in the United Kingdom throughout the twentieth century (1899–2000), and is said to be the oldest surviving disabled person's organisation in the world.

Originally called the National League of the Blind, the NLB was founded in 1893, and registered as a trade union in 1899.

In April 1920 it organised a march that converged towards Trafalgar Square from Leeds, Manchester and Newport in support of what became the Blind Persons Act 1920.

[2] A book giving a detailed history of the League was published in 2015 - Blind Workers Against Charity, by Matthias Reiss.

The NLBD was represented by Mike Barratt, George Salughter, and two observers at the meeting in London on 13 June 1981.