COPE CHILDRENS TRUST

Registered charity 1014051 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAINBOWS, RAINBOWS CHILDRENS HOSPICE

Rainbows Hospice for Children & Young People is a purpose built 14 bedded unit in Loughborough, Leics serving life threatened & life limited children, young people & their families in the East Midlands & South Yorkshire. We aim to provide the highest quality of family centred care. We provide a research based, holistic approach to respite & terminal care, symptom control & bereavement support.

Objects

4. Objects4.1. The Charity's objects ('Objects') are specifically restricted to promoting the relief of illness and suffering for young persons by the provision of palliative care and in such ways as the Charity shall from time to time see fit, and in particular in the East Midlands Counties of England and adjacent areas and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality whether geographical or otherwise of such object) by:4.1.1. establishing, maintaining and conducting hospices, residential nursing or convalescent homes for the reception of young persons, as defined by the Charity from time to time, of any sex and without regard to race or creed or any other personal criteria other than such medical criteria as may be defined by the Charity from time to time;4.1.2. providing and promoting the provision of palliative care, or any other relevant medical care, treatments or therapies either at a hospice or at another location to such young persons as meet the medical criteria determined by the Charity; 4.1.3. providing support and care and facilities to the members of the family of the young person being cared for by the Charity whether adult or otherwise at hospices, nursing and convalescent homes, at their own homes or any other location. 4.1.4. conducting or promoting or encouraging research into the care and treatment of persons suffering from any such illness, disability, disease or infirmity as aforesaid and particularly into the care and treatment of persons suffering from terminal illness and the care of the families of such persons and by providing for the dissemination of the results of such research;4.1.5. promoting or encouraging or assisting in the teaching or training of any persons engaged in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursery or allied services and in the teaching or training of students in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursing, allied or other complementary services; 4.1.6. by providing or assisting or encouraging the provision of spiritual help and guidance for any persons referred to in Articles 4.1.2 and 4.1.3, whether patients or families of patients or otherwise; and4.1.7. by working in partnership with other organisations to provide, and to advance and promote, palliative care of young persons.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Registered contact address: Charnwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew by 10.7% to £10,569,258, while total expenditure increased by 20.7% to £10,987,065, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Despite this operational loss, the charity maintains a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £9,331,023, which significantly exceed the trustees' stated policy target of £3,843,400. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02743297

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Burns — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Julie Taylor — Director of Clinical Operations (source)
• Julia Bates — Director of People (source)
• Josie Lee — Director of Finance (source)
• Sally Benton — Director of Income Generation & Marketing (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SCARLE, David — director, appointed 19/09/2025on trustee list
• LINGARD, Jason Robert — director, appointed 19/09/2025on trustee list
• HALSE, Jennifer Louise — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• BHALLA, Ruchira, Dr — director, appointed 14/12/2023on trustee list
• WALSH, Daniel — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
• RIETVELD, Lotte Imke Dorien — director, appointed 23/02/2023on trustee list
• BARRY, Peter Walter, Dr — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• BROWNING, Angela Jane — director, appointed 08/08/2018on trustee list
• STOTHARD, Paul Robert — director, appointed 14/12/2017on trustee list
• KATARIA, Chandrakant — director, appointed 27/09/2017not on trustee list
• KARAVADRA, Vipal Laxman — director, appointed 27/09/2017on trustee list
• SHARMA, Vijay — director, appointed 27/09/2017on trustee list
• LEE, Josephine Claire — secretary, appointed 29/04/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £418k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Cope Children's Trust — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 02/06/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 33.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL STOTHARDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANGELA BROWNING
• DANIEL WALSH
• David Scarle
• Dr Peter Walter Barry
• Emma Louise Radley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jason Robert Lingard
• Jennifer Louise Halse
• Lotte Imke Dorien Rietveld
• Louis Peter Requena · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert John Mason · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Northamptonshire · Nottinghamshire · Rutland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RAINBOW TRUST CHILDREN'S CHARITY.

• RAINBOW TRUST CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £5.3m
• RAINBOW HOUSE GROUP income £553k
• HARRYS RAINBOW income £420k
• THE CHRISTOPHER ROBINS CHARITABLE TRUST income £136k
• Rainbow Hub NW Ltd income £1.4m
• SEFTON CHILDRENS TRUST income £71k

Side by side with its peers

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