RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL (HANDFORTH)

Registered charity 1189426 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rainbow Preschool provides care and education for children below the statutory school age in accordance with the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage documents (DfE)

Objects

THE CHARITY WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT HAVING AS ITS OBJECTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY: (1) PROMOTING THEIR CARE AND SAFETY; (2) PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND PROMOTING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT; (3) PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING; (4) PROVIDING SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS; (5) PROVIDING SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS HOLDING MEMBERSHIP OF THE CIO; AND (6) FURTHERING THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.

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 reported a net deficit of £3,521.92 for the year ended 31 August 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Free reserves held were £64,954, which the trustees consider appropriate against a policy target of up to one year's running costs (approx. £100k). The trustees did not disclose any 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

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kirsty Guilfordchair
• Catherine Hewitt
• Jasmine Maguire
• Samantha Cleminson
• Tracy Bratt

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL & EXTENDED SERVICES.

• RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL & EXTENDED SERVICES income £1.2m
• RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL (WALLINGFORD) income £295k
• RAINBOW CHILDREN'S NURSERY LIMITED income £432k
• RAINBOW TEDDIES PRE-SCHOOL income £149k
• RAINBOW PRE-SCHOOL STANSTED income £247k
• RAINBOW PRESCHOOL (WICKFORD) income £171k

Side by side with its peers

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