RAINBOW TRUST AFRICA

Registered charity 1057862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAINBOW AFRICA

Based in Livingstone, Zambia, R.T.A. provides high quality education for over 500 children, 33% of whom are sponsored, at King's Pre-School & Primary School; medical services from Mwenda Medical Centre to 5 remote locations on a twice weekly basis; assistance for destitute grannies & their orphaned grandchildren; food aid as required; and the establishment & support of village church communities.

Objects

THE FURTHERANCE AND THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK.

Area of benefit: AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £309,601, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet future calls on the charity. The charity reported a net income of £35,729 for the year, driven by increased donations and trading activities, despite higher charitable expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rainbow Trust Africa (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR ANDREW EAGLEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DENNIS RAYMOND BURTON
• Jonathan Watts
• TIMOTHY JOHN EAGLE

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

Operates in: South Africa · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ZAMBEZI SUNRISE TRUST.

• THE ZAMBEZI SUNRISE TRUST income £59k
• THE CHARITABLE TRUST FOR THE TONGABEZI TRUST SCHOOL income £326k
• RAINBOWS4CHILDREN (UK) TRUST income £120k
• RAINBOW MISSION TRUST income £73k
• RWANDA RESTORED income £59k
• EDUCATION EAST AFRICA income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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