About Queen Elizabeth Foundation
About This Shop
QEF is a leading disability charity working with people with physical and learning disabilities or acquired brain injuries to help them increase independence and improve opportunities for life.
With 75 years’ experience, our four specialist departments provide expert development, assessment, rehabilitation and training for disabled adults from across the UK. Whether it’s learning everyday life skills, rebuilding a life affected by brain injury, acquiring the skills to drive a specially adapted car or training for future employment, we support disabled people to ensure they have the same opportunities as everyone else.
QEF currently has 19 retail shops in Surrey, each run by a shop manager and a great team of volunteers. We sell a wide range of donated goods (clothing, bric-a-brac, book, toys and games). One of our shops in Chessington is fully stocked with donated items for children. In a number of our shops (Cheam, Leatherhead and Shepperton) you will also find a fantastic range of donated furniture for sale. We even offer a delivery service so you can get your new acquisition home without any hassle. In many instances we can also collect your unwanted furniture for sale in our shops. By shopping with us you’ll be helping our work to assist disabled people in achieving their goals for life.
QEF Independent Living Services: Supports young people with complex disabilities to acquire key life skills and greater independence with specialist support from our life coaches.
QEF Neuro Rehabilitation Services: The only UK rehabilitation centre offering assessment, intensive neuro-rehabilitation and education for young adults who have acquired disabilities as a result of brain injury.
QEF Vocational Services: Provides training or retraining for sustained employment for people with existing or acquired disabilities.
QEF Mobility Services: Allows people with disabilities to achieve independence and freedom outside their home as drivers, passengers, scooter and wheelchair users.
Three other charities have recently merged into the QEF family. MERU, Sutton Shopmobility and VASD are all dedicated to support disabled people providing assistive equipment to disabled children, scooters and wheelchairs for shoppers, independent living aids and wheelchair accessible holiday homes and canal boats.