THE RAINBOW CENTRE (MARHAM)

Registered charity 1126581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Day-Care Centre for children - 3 months to 12 years

Objects

TO ADVANCE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN (PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE) AND TO ENHANCE THEIR DEVELOPMENT BY:(A) PROVIDING APPROPRIATE PLAY, EDUCATION AND CARE FACILITIES AND TRAINING COURSES; AND(B) ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING THE STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL/DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND OF THEIR FAMILIES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN, AND RECOGNITION OF, SUCH NEEDS; AND(C) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL REASONABLY THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NORFOLK

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 the charity generated a net income of £150,778 for the year ended 31 May 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £539,993. The trustees report that the financial position is satisfactory and 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 Stephenson Smart (East Anglia) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06580163

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Dee Gent — Centre Manager (source)
• Sqn Ldr Phil Hitchin — Chair person (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.

• STEFANSKI, Rebecca Jane — director, appointed 25/06/2026on trustee list
• HARNESS, Alice Jane — director, appointed 19/06/2026on trustee list
• PAULAT-BRIGG, Jessica Catherine — director, appointed 28/05/2026on trustee list
• BROOKS, Christine — director, appointed 29/04/2026on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Stephen John — director, appointed 03/03/2026on trustee list
• ATKINSON, Kevin — director, appointed 20/06/2025on trustee list
• OWENS, Christina Karen — director, appointed 13/05/2025not on trustee list
• ELMER, Christopher William — director, appointed 13/05/2025not on trustee list
• HITCHEN, Philip Andrew — director, appointed 18/06/2024on trustee list
• MCLEAN, Alison Ruth — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• WALKER, Gary James — director, appointed 10/07/2017not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Harness
• Alison Mclean
• Chris Elmer
• Christina Owen
• Christine Brooks
• Gary James Walker MBE TD VR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Catherine Paulat-Brigg
• Kevin Atkinson
• Philip Andrew Hitchen
• REBECCA STEFANSKI
• Stephen John Robinson

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• RAINBOW CHILDREN'S NURSERY LIMITED income £432k
• RAINBOW COMMUNITY NURSERY income £807k
• The Rainbow Centre (Scarborough) CIO income £449k
• MARGARET MCMILLAN CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £525k
• THE RAINBOW CENTRE FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION LTD income £1.1m
• RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL (WALLINGFORD) income £295k

Side by side with its peers

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