RAINBOW LIVING SW

Registered charity 1181195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Rainbow Living

The provision of practical assistance and support for people with disabilities to enable such individuals to achieve their full potential by developing their abilities and skills, living as independent a life as the individual's disability will permit, maximizing their quality of life and development and occupation of their minds by pursing spiritual, recreational and employment opportunities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO ENABLE THEM TO FULFIL THEIR FULL POTENTIAL BY:1) DEVELOPING THEIR ABILITIES AND SKILLS2) LIVING AS INDEPENDENT A LIFE AS THE INDIVIDUAL'S DISABILITY SHALL PERMIT3) THE DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THEIR MINDS AND BODIES BY PURSUING SPIRITUAL RECREATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES4) MAXIMIZING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFEWITHIN A FRAMEWORK WHICH PROMOTES THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE

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

Causes: Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reports unrestricted reserves of £318,982, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of six months' running costs (£90,716). The accounts state that the charity remains on solid financial footing, with net assets totaling £2,722,908. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Simpkins Edwards Audit LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £2.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Beryl Furnival
• David Andrew Hopton
• JANET PINNIGER
• JEREMY FRANCIS CHEW
• RUTH ELIZABETH AIRDRIE MBE
• Sarah Louise Lampey
• Valerie Frances Symons

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

Operates in: Devon · Torbay

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 RAINBOW SURPRISE CIO.

• RAINBOW SURPRISE CIO income £322k
• Rainbow Hub NW Ltd income £1.4m
• RAINBOWS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GB income £93k
• RAINBOW MIGRATION income £988k
• RAINBOW SERVICES (HARLOW) income £687k
• RAINBOW'S END (ROSELAND) income £73k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.