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.
Leaving a gift in your Will to QEF, no matter the size or type, will help us to continue to provide the expert care and rehabilitation and mobility services to children and adults living with a disability or brain injury.
Gifts in Wills have been crucial to the significant progress that QEF has made, and they continue to be instrumental in our charitable income supporting our work today and securing it for the future.
£300
could enable someone affected by a brain injury to relearn basic movement skills with a physiotherapist and the support of an overhead H frame hoist.
£5,000
could build a bespoke Bugzi wheelchair that gives a child the chance to benefit from the discovery, experience and learning that independent mobility brings.
£20,000
could purchase a vehicle to drive people to and from our centres enabling them to re-learn everyday skills that have been lost as a result of a brain injury.
£35,000
could pay for specialist computer equipment and assistive environmental controls for three disabled people to enable them to communicate with others and move around independently.
£703,000
Gifts in Wills
£1,163,000
Fundraising
£235,000
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