RAINBOW FUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Registered charity 1077851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Fund provides money to pay the salaries of nine teachers and a cook at the Rainbow School at the J L Zwane Centre in Guguletu, Western Cape. It also pays for about half of an administrator's salary and for a small amount of other overheads. The Rainbow School provides after school teaching and homework facilities to augment the effectiveness of the existing nearby primary schools.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£40k
Latest spending
£35k
Registered
1999
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity concluded the year with a net asset value of £6,434, having incurred a deficit for the year of (£8,772). The trustees report that the school is still showing a loss and that more needs to be done to obtain local funding, particularly for the Plumbing Programme.

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.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames · South Africa

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£40k£35k
31/12/2024£27k£36k
31/12/2023£41k£43k
31/12/2022£67k£56k
31/07/2021£39k£32k

Common questions

Is RAINBOW FUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity concluded the year with a net asset value of £6,434, having incurred a deficit for the year of (£8,772). The trustees report that the school is still showing a loss and that more needs to be done to obtain local funding, particularly for the Plumbing Programme. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds RAINBOW FUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA?

Funders whose own accounts filings name RAINBOW FUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA as a grant recipient include PHILIP KING CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
PHILIP KING CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£15kEducational programme for disadvantaged
PHILIP KING CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£9kEducational programme for disadvantaged