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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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Team QEF smash the London Marathon to raise £30k!

We’d like to say a massive congratulations to the eighteen runners who all finished the Virgin London Marathon 2017 yesterday to raise over thirty thousand pounds for QEF!

So, to Helen Wells, Chloe Ridyard, Sarah Thomas, Jozef Podsiadly, Will Ethelston, Ann Mathiesen, Ajay Raval, Claire Smy, Jason Martin, David Welch, Chuan Lim, Daniel Smith, Gary Macfarlane, Andy Sharp, Daniel Whyte, Timothy Coup, Emily Watson, Scott Wilson – thank you!

We hope that having trained for months and dedicated time and effort to fundraising it all paid off when crossing the finish line!

It’s now time to take it easy for a bit and rest up those tired feet as there’s 51 whole weeks until next time!

Once again – thank you to all of our amazing fundraising runners and everyone that sponsored them. You’re making a huge and very real difference to people with disabilities and their families.