It is with immense sadness and regret that we inform you that Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People (QEF) will commence a wind down programme from 11th November 2025.
This process is expected to take 28 days to allow time for alternative placements to be found for residential clients at our Care and Rehabilitation Centre, and to honour commitments to other clients to the best extent possible.
At the end of this period, QEF intends to file for administration.
We have worked tirelessly over the last year to try and save the charity, exploring numerous options to improve its finances, but unfortunately there wasn’t a viable solution that met all the necessary requirements to overcome the challenging financial situation QEF faced.
It has been our privilege to support disabled people for over 90 years, providing expert services that have changed many lives, and we are deeply saddened that it cannot continue.
Our priorities right now are to work with funding bodies to ensure clients find suitable alternative placements and to support our remarkable staff during this difficult time.
With the help of so many of our kind supporters, over the past year we have been able to invest more in our work, strengthen our services, and reach more people than ever before.
There are lots of men, women and children in your community who could benefit from our support, so we’re asking everyone who shares our dedication to improving the lives of people with disabilities to help us reach them.
In 2021/22 we provided the equivalent of 4,453 total days of rehabilitation, we supported 34 residents through our Independent Living Services, we took 5,061 mobility calls and enquiries and issued 61 custom-designed Bugzi wheelchairs.
We achieved some ambitious targets. Take the new Care and Rehabilitation Centre (CRC), which opened in July 2020. Despite the challenges of Covid, we opened the Centre thanks in part to the dedicated support of generous supporters like you. We now help people regain their quality of life following an acquired brain injury, stroke, incomplete spinal injury or neurological illness. Expert multi-disciplinary teams provide each person with a personalised neurorehabilitation and care plan, in one of the finest facilities of its kind in the country.
We always want to ensure people get the best help there is and now, more than ever, we’ll be needing your support as we set out to widen our reach and help more people than ever before.
If you can give a gift today, you can help us provide even more support than we did last year.
Thank you for anything you can give.
Contact us if you experience any problems with your donation or need help, please write to us at Leatherhead Court, Woodlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 0BN.
Email appeals@qef.org.uk or contact a member of our team on 01372 841151.