Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE RAINBOW CENTRE FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION LTD 

Centre provides conductive education for people with motor disorders - mainly those who have cerebral palsey but also now offering support for adults affected by strokes or Parkinsons.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 21 years

www.rainbowcentre.org

inigoc@rainbowcentre.org

01329289500

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/22£960£788£172£250£1,349£1,12417.12541
31/08/21£727£681£46£86£1,177£1,13820.13341
31/08/20£786£653£133£207£1,130£1,10020.22741
31/08/19?£926£1,045£-120£338£997£959113141
30/06/18*£839£876£-37£283£1,117£1,01013.82754
30/06/17£913£813£100£310£1,154£1,07815.9280
30/06/16£704£790£-86£247£1,059£631220
30/06/15£758£678£80£259£1,136£1,10819.6200
30/06/14£728£646£81£234£1,055£1,01118.8180
30/06/13£543£605£-62£267£974£94718.8180
30/06/12£513£627£-114£212£1,036£1,01519.4180
30/06/11£604£556£48£179£1,150£1,15024.8190
30/06/10£563£579£-16£182£1,102£1,08622.5190
30/06/09£548£526£22£143£1,119£1,07324.5190
30/06/08£586£541£45£104£1,097£1,07623.9180
30/06/07£430£426£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£751£335£416£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£738£203£536£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04*£267£216£51£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 33.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 31.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 17.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 8.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 25 employees
  • 41 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
DCMS£37,458
BBC Children in Need£32,376
National Lottery Community Fund£27,040
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering Families Living With Disability
£27,040 27/01/2023
This grant will be used to provide mental health support for parents whose children have a neurological condition. A range of drop-ins will be available for individuals to access immediate advice and ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Rainbow Centre - 04/02/22
£1,250 22/02/2022
Core Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 03/12/2021
Conductive Education for children and adults with neurological disabilities
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£37,458 29/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 19/06/2020
Conductive Education at The Rainbow Centre
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Rainbow Centre For Conductive Education
£2,406 17/06/2020
COVID19 - This grant will fund additional computer software and hardware to provide online support to disabled children and young people isolated due to Covid-19. Young people will feel less ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Rainbow Centre For Conductive Education
£29,970 28/05/2020
36
This project will deliver term-time weekly Saturday club sessions for disabled children and young people with a range of complex needs. The sessions will increase their mobility, develop better ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Rainbow Centre
£5,718 15/11/2019
We want to run day trips for the children, giving them amazing experiences that they might not get otherwise.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Rainbow Centre for Conductive Education
£6,528 19/11/2018
The Rainbow Centre need four All-in-one Eye Gaze Touch PCs, to give children and adults we support a voice and the ability to communicate.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The Rainbow Centre
£40,000 07/12/2017
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Rainbow Centre for Conductive Education
£4,406 04/08/2017
We need communication aids such as PCs to help children with cerebral palsy develop language skills, make friends and express their needs.
Dunhill Medical Trust - Staffing Grant
£59,243 03/03/2017
36
Staffing costs to support the expansion of the services for adults affected by long-term neurological conditions
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Rainbow Centre for Conductive Education
£90,000 09/06/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing conductive education to children with cerebral palsy and disabled adults across south-east England
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-80
  • MATTHEW TAYLOR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant / Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/03/2003, number: 1096603
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/06/2002, number: 04465743
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR18: 3 days late, AR04: 11 days late,
Main office

THE BRADBURY BUILDING
PALMERSTON DRIVE
FAREHAM
HAMPSHIRE
PO14 1BJ

Objectives

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS BY THE PROVISION OF CARE, TREATMENT AND ASSISTANCE OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH MOTOR DISORDERS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TO ENABLE THEM TO BENEFIT FROM CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION TECHNIQUES BY ANDRAS PETO

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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