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Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Limited

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...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.qest.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Limited
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.6m
  • 2023£976k£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.1m£832k
Charitable 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.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

2.6y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
12.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 11Professional services 11Arts and leisure 5

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

30.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.7 in 2020

9 from 5 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1152032
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21 DEC 2012 as amended on 05 May 2020 as amended on 05 May 2020 as amended on 25 Jun 2026 as amended on 25 Jun 2026
Companies House
Company number 08339899 · Active
Contact on the register
02077981531 · info@qest.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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