Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

QUEEN ELIZABETH SCHOLARSHIP TRUST LIMITED 

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.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 11 years

www.qest.org.uk

info@qest.org.uk

02077981531

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£1,115£1,084£31£291£5,673£5315.970
31/12/21£1,114£832£282£180£5,814£6379.270
31/12/20£661£818£-157£195£5,342£4,71269.1510
31/12/19£910£1,104£-194£390£5,460£549650
31/12/18*£1,116£1,120£-5£597£5,405£4,82251.750
31/12/17£922£774£148£331£5,571£4927.650
31/12/16£1,195£937£258£430£5,306£3384.340
31/12/15£558£552£6£203£4,734£2134.640
31/12/14£509£617£-108£268£4,749£561.130
31/12/13*£126£92£34£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 36%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 28.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 42%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 9%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 7 employees
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,000
Dulverton Trust£36,000
The Pilgrim Trust£20,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
£10,000 22/07/2021
12
To provide scholarships
Dulverton Trust - QEST Scholarship Programme
£36,000 09/06/2021
QEST Scholarship Programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£150,000 27/03/2020
QEST Scholarship Programme
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
£20,000 19/09/2019
36
Expanding and developing the reach of QEST's ongoing Scholarship Programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 31/12/2018
Gala Dinner
Dulverton Trust - National expansion of Apprenticeship Programme
£18,000 25/10/2016
National expansion of Apprenticeship Programme
The Blagrave Trust - Brokering craft apprenticeships
£36,000 26/07/2016
To broker apprenticeship opportunities between disadvantaged young people, youth charity partners and their business networks in the craft sector
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
£50,000 24/09/2012
Apprenticeship Scheme
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-67
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/05/2013, number: 1152032
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/12/2012, number: 08339899
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR18: 8 days late, AR13: 89 days late,
Main office

Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
1 Buckingham Place
LONDON
SW1E 6HR

Objectives

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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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