RAINBOW COMMUNITIES CIO

Registered charity 1209348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNITED COMMUNITIES CIO

A by and for LGBT national charity which provides specialist support services for vulnerable members of the LGBT community.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UK: TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF SUCH PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF BEFRIENDING SUPPORT, INFORMATION, GUIDANCE, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND SOCIAL MEETING SPACES ONLINE AND IN PERSON.

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

Causes: Education/training · 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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £41,678 at the end of the period, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, and the trustees confirmed the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Norman James Powellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Donna Jones
• Norbert Lieckfeldt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Gandolfini
• Stephenie June Linham

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 CHORUS income £62k
• RAINBOW MIGRATION income £988k
• RAINBOW LIVING SW income £313k
• EXPERIENCE COMMUNITY CIO income £32k
• MICRO RAINBOW INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION income £366k

Side by side with its peers

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