Charitable Trusts
QEF owes much to the support it receives from grant-making trusts.
From small beginnings in 1935, Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People has developed to become one of the most diverse service providers in the country with our Services providing direct practical help to around 5,000 disabled people every year.
QEFÂ firmly believes that every person has a worthwhile contribution to make and that an all-inclusive society must embrace people of all age groups, backgrounds and abilities.
If you already have supported our work we owe you our gratitude. If you have not and would like to know more about current funding projects, please do not hesitate to contact us. QEF is entirely dependent on voluntary income for all capital projects and your donation would make a real difference to our work.
Charitable Trusts and Foundations
QEF has established long-standing relationships with many charitable trusts and foundations, whose funding is crucial to meet our aim of supporting disabled people to achieve their goals for life.  These relationships have helped us to implement a number of invaluable and exciting projects of which the following are few examples. Naturally we are very thankful for these and all the projects large and small that we have been able to bring to life with such vital backing.
QEF Independent Living Services
Here we have constructed a wonderful Sensory Room where young adults, who have often lost one or more of their senses, can now develop faculties most people take for granted, allowing them to live life to their optimum. The room caters for clients’ individual needs and they have said that they found the experience passive and calming, helping them to relax and let go of their frustrations.
Clients have also commented that they find it stimulating as they can activate computer-controlled lighting, sound, video and aromas, thereby developing physical functions.
QEF Mobility Services
We now have interactive and easy to visualise Computer-Teaching Equipment, which enables our clients to quickly grasp complex training. Alongside this we now have a mounted interactive screen and laptop projector with specially configured software to make our teaching programmes easy to follow.
The equipment supports our driving instructors, occupational physiotherapists and rehabilitation therapists and they can now fully illustrate the range of mobility equipment and services available to disabled people.
QEF Neuro Rehabilitation Services
A High-Dependency Care Bedroom has been funded, which boosts the development of services as we are now able to offer more placements to clients with high dependency.Â
We can now assist those with high-dependency by providing more intensive care to enable their successful rehabilitation. This fully accessible bedroom has a variety of specialist equipment, which includes custom-fitted fixtures suitable for wheelchair-bound clients, a special hoist, profiling bed, computer aids, assistive software, memory aids and aids for personal care to meet a wide range of disabilities.Â
QEF Vocational Services
Music plays a vital role in the life of the Recording Studio. It allows our trainees with disabilities – who are anxious to re-establish some stability in their lives after a stressful, anxious and chaotic period of prolonged unemployment – the chance to express themselves musically and provides much-needed therapy. Trainees who are talented artists and musicians are actively encouraged to share their skills. Often they show initiative by running one-to-one or group classes and novice musicians join them in the weekly jamming sessions. We have also been able to install a necessary heating/cooling system in the Studio.
If you would like more information, are a Trustee, have links with a trust or are considering setting up a trust, we would love to hear from you so we can work together to support disabled people in gaining new skills and increasing their independence.
For more information, please contact John Field on 01372 841120 or john.field@qef.org.uk
