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.

QEF 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.

Mobility Services

QEF Mobility Services is seeking a donation towards the cost of acquiring a loan car for people who have Motor Neurone Disease. MND mainly affects adults in mid-life. The period from the onset until the end of the disease is relatively short. For many people the purchase of a rear entry, specially adapted car is financially hard, if not impossible. Mobility Services offers a car loan scheme that enhances peoples’ quality of life at a most distressing time. We have the opportunity to purchase a 2004 registration ex-demo Mercedes Vaneos rear entry car that suits people who can no longer access a car any other way, not even with the help of a carer. Cost: automatic new value £26,290, offer price £21,600. We have raised £16,000 already and are asking for a donation towards the £5,600 balance.

Vocational Services

Media Techniques Course at our Vocational Services site is a flagship course that offers excellent employment opportunities. It requires a Sanyo Data Projector at a cost of £1,029. It is an important piece of training media which trainees need to know how to use to set up and dismantle as part of their training course. It will serve the double purpose of being used to deliver training within the training area.

The highly successful Computer Aided Design (CAD) Course has an intake of 20 trainees who work towards three City & Guilds qualifications, over a period of 38 weeks plus 12 weeks practical work experience with a company in their own home area. Employment prospects are excellent. We cannot progress trainees onto the latest software as the current computers cannot cope, we must upgrade the 22 computers to ensure trainees can achieve top qualifications. The cost is £21,000 and your donation would enable our Vocational College to purchase this equipment and the old computers can then be used on the new training course developed in Horticulture.

There is a 1930s four-room bungalow in the College grounds which needs modernization to provide essential working space for course tutors and also a private area ideal for one-to-one trainee/tutor counseling sessions. At a cost of £11,993 the bungalow can be converted to provide a trainees counseling room, staff meetings room, space where tutors can develop courses and mark trainees’ work. It would provide an invaluable, quiet working space, away from the hustle and bustle on campus.

The current space for the Horticulture Course and trainee work stations at Vocational Services is in dire need of renovation and redesign. The existing lecture room can be renovated to create one open floor plan office to create workstations for the 3 staff as well as adequate storage space for teaching resources and training materials. The room can be divided into two separate areas for flexibility in meeting the training needs of the program. These projects will provide much needed improvements to the existing facilities and allow for expansion of teaching opportunities and enable tutorial style sessions. We are seeking £25,000 to complete these projects. The Horticulture Course is very popular and many trainees move on to find work with notable gardens. This year the Horticulture Centre at Vocational Services achieved ‘Organic Status’, thus broadening the employment opportunities open to the graduates.

Please contact: Jacqui Walford

Director of Fundraising

Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People

Leatherhead Court

Woodlands Road

Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 0BN

Tel: 01372 841118

Email: Jacqui.Walford@qef.org.uk

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