Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People

Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People (QEF) is a charity that works with both children and adults with physical and learning disabilities or acquired brain injuries to help them gain new skills and increase their independence, helping them to achieve their potential.

The QEF group also includes subsidiaries: Medical Engineering Resource Unit (MERU) based in Carshalton and The Grange (2016) Ltd in Kent.

[1] Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People was founded in 1932 by Dame Georgiana Buller, the Vice Chairman of the Central Council for the Care of Cripples.

In 1948 the foundation acquired the Dorincourt Estates in Leatherhead and in 1956 set up Banstead Place Medical Rehabilitation Centre.

The college developed a vocational approach to training disabled people and expanded to run workshops in areas such as engineering draughtsmanship and computer programming, as well as a mobility scheme.