RAINBOW PRESCHOOL (WICKFORD)

Registered charity 1046532 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAINBOW PLAYGROUP (WICKFORD)

Rainbow provides pre-school education for children in the local area between the ages of 2.5 years to 4.5 years. We also provide our hall for hire to the local community for under eight birthday parties.

Objects

The aims of the Pre-school are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups and by:(a) offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;(b) encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas;(c) Instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE WICKFORD

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £207,953.93 against total expenditure of £150,941.29, resulting in a positive balance of £57,012.64. The Treasurer Report confirms all figures are correct as at 30th June 2025, with additional savings held in fundraising and general accounts. The document indicates a stable financial position with no disclosed debts or deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Burchettchair
• Ben Lumb
• Charlotte Doherty
• Claire Marie Henderson
• Donna Leigh Ellis
• Giorgia Atkins

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Dandelion Preschool.

• Dandelion Preschool income £126k
• RAINBOW PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £187k
• RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL (HANDFORTH) income £172k
• RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL & EXTENDED SERVICES income £1.2m
• RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL STANSTED income £247k
• RAINBOW CHILDREN'S NURSERY LIMITED income £432k

Side by side with its peers

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