QUEEN ELIZABETH SCHOLARSHIP TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1152032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as QEST

To advance the education in the United Kingdom in modern and traditional crafts and similar skills by the making of one or more grants, scholarships and prizes to individuals training in such crafts or skills.

Objects

1. The advancement of education in the United Kingdom in traditional and contemporary craft skills, by the making of grants, through Scholarships and Apprenticeships, to individuals training in such craft skills or by any other means; and 2. Such other exclusively charitable objects or purposes as the Trustees may in their discretion think fit.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net surplus of £11,270 for the year, with total income of £1,211,301 and expenditure of £1,325,651. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £319,073, which is below the stated policy target of £600,000, though unrestricted funds including designated funds totalled £3,949,340. The trustees confirmed that sufficient long-term and liquid resources are available to meet obligations as they fall due.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.9m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~35.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lisa Montaguechair
• Adrian Attwood
• Andrew Richard David Winch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Catrina Hobhouse
• Christopher James Satterthwaite CBE
• Frances Priest
• Joanne Milner
• Jonathan Wright
• Robin Scott Belfield

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION.

• QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION income £46k
• THE ELIZABETH CREAK CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.4m
• QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ENDOWED SCHOOL TRUST income £57k
• QUEEN ELIZABETH I FOUNDATION income £119k
• THE EDWARD BARNSLEY EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £564k
• QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BLACKBURN LIMITED income £45k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.