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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.

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July 2022

QEF provided an accessibility service at the Wimbledon Championships to help guests who may have needed extra support.

We are truly grateful to all of our volunteers for being such amazing QEF ambassadors! It was an incredible experience and some of us even managed to catch some tennis and see a few famous faces!

“It was amazing to have you on site throughout in order to deal with any requests that we received, and also to be a visible point of contact for all of our Guests to speak to if they had mobility related question” – Wimbledon Guest Services Manager

A "Selfie" - four people are in shot, all are wearing Wimbledon tennis caps, and white QEF t-shirts. In the background is the corner of a tennis scoreboard showing the days' fixtures.

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