AFRICAN RAINBOW FAMILY

Registered charity 1185902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

African Rainbow Family is the Leading National Expert by Experience Grassroots Charity Campaigning and Advocating for Racial Justice and Human Rights of LGBTIQ Refugees and People Seeking Asylum of African Heritage and the Global Majority. We provide psychotherapeutic group supports, training, counselling, advocacy, legal advice, information, employability, moving-on and integration services.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£336k
Latest spending
£332k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £24,964 at the end of the financial year. The trustees report that they aim to retain reserves appropriate to the charity's size and financial commitments to ensure continuity of objectives, though no specific monetary target is defined. The filing confirms 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

Reserves policy: appropriate to the CIO's needs... based on the CIO's size and the level of financial commitments held (held: £25k)
“The Trustees aim to ensure the CIO will be able to continue to fulfil its charitable objectives even if there is a temporary shortfall in income or unexpected expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£336k£332k
30/09/2024£270k£305k
30/09/2023£246k£178k
30/09/2022£169k£150k
30/09/2021£242k£155k

Common questions

Is AFRICAN RAINBOW FAMILY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £24,964 at the end of the financial year. The trustees report that they aim to retain reserves appropriate to the charity's size and financial commitments to ensure continuity of objectives, though no specific monetary target is defined. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds AFRICAN RAINBOW FAMILY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name AFRICAN RAINBOW FAMILY as a grant recipient include THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST, MANCHESTER PRIDE LIMITED, CIVIC POWER FUND.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2024£68kCore funding
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2025£50kCore funding
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£35kCore funding
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£19kHuman Rights Pool
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£18kCore funding
MANCHESTER PRIDE LIMITEDFY2023£10kto support LGBTQ+ refugees’ mental health and wellbeing through group therapy sessions
CIVIC POWER FUNDFY2024£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
A B Charitable Trust16/10/2025£30kA grant to African Rainbow Family
UK government09/10/2020£21kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
Barrow Cadbury Trust25/08/2020£10kCOVID-19 - African Rainbow Family

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RAINBOW MIGRATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AFRICAN RAINBOW FAMILY£336k—0unclear—no doubt
RAINBOW MIGRATION FY2024£1.1m—1above—no doubt
FRG LTD FY2025£2.3m£60,001 - £70,0004below—no doubt
ACTION FOR REFUGEES IN LEWISHAM FY2025£573k——unclear—no doubt
THE RAINBOW FOUNDATION, WREXHAM FY2025£2.0m£60,001 - £70,000—within—no doubt
OUT & PROUD AFRICAN LGBTI FY2025£152k—0below—no doubt

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