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Cope Childrens Trust

Rainbows, Rainbows Childrens Hospice

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1014051
Status
Registered
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Dec. 3, 2025. Filing history
Registered
Sept. 4, 1992
Legal form
Charitable company
Company number
02743297

Address

Address
Rainbows Childrens Hospice
Lark Rise
Loughborough
LE11 2HS

Activities

Rainbows Hospice for Children & Young People is a purpose built 14 bedded unit in Loughborough, Leics serving life threatened & life limited children, young people & their families in the East Midlands & South Yorkshire. We aim to provide the highest quality of family centred care. We provide a research based, holistic approach to respite & terminal care, symptom control & bereavement support.

Objects: 4. Objects4.1. The Charity's objects ('Objects') are specifically restricted to promoting the relief of illness and suffering for young persons by the provision of palliative care and in such ways as the Charity shall from time to time see fit, and in particular in the East Midlands Counties of England and adjacent areas and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality whether geographical or otherwise of such object) by:4.1.1. establishing, maintaining and conducting hospices, residential nursing or convalescent homes for the reception of young persons, as defined by the Charity from time to time, of any sex and without regard to race or creed or any other personal criteria other than such medical criteria as may be defined by the Charity from time to time;4.1.2. providing and promoting the provision of palliative care, or any other relevant medical care, treatments or therapies either at a hospice or at another location to such young persons as meet the medical criteria determined by the Charity; 4.1.3. providing support and care and facilities to the members of the family of the young person being cared for by the Charity whether adult or otherwise at hospices, nursing and convalescent homes, at their own homes or any other location. 4.1.4. conducting or promoting or encouraging research into the care and treatment of persons suffering from any such illness, disability, disease or infirmity as aforesaid and particularly into the care and treatment of persons suffering from terminal illness and the care of the families of such persons and by providing for the dissemination of the results of such research;4.1.5. promoting or encouraging or assisting in the teaching or training of any persons engaged in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursery or allied services and in the teaching or training of students in any branch of medicine, surgery, nursing, allied or other complementary services; 4.1.6. by providing or assisting or encouraging the provision of spiritual help and guidance for any persons referred to in Articles 4.1.2 and 4.1.3, whether patients or families of patients or otherwise; and4.1.7. by working in partnership with other organisations to provide, and to advance and promote, palliative care of young persons.

Classification

How
Provides Human Resources, Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Services
What
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Who
Children/young People, People With Disabilities

Geography

Local Authority
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Assets Employees
March 31, 2025 Dec. 3, 2025On time £10,569,258 £10,987,065 £13,027,975 207
March 31, 2024 Nov. 27, 2024On time £9,548,854 £9,103,801 £13,432,414 167
March 31, 2023 Jan. 29, 2024On time £8,226,636 £7,816,776 £12,686,301 183
March 31, 2022 Aug. 30, 2022On time £7,976,203 £6,641,729 £12,496,878 170
March 31, 2021 Sept. 3, 2021On time £7,179,626 £5,985,786 £11,076,252 165

Trustees

Name Appointed
Paul Stothard (Chair) Dec. 14, 2017
Angela Browning Aug. 8, 2018
Daniel Walsh Sept. 21, 2023
David Scarle Sept. 19, 2025
Dr Peter Walter Barry Nov. 17, 2022
Dr Ruchira Bhalla Dec. 14, 2023
Emma Louise Radley Sept. 17, 2026
Jason Robert Lingard Sept. 19, 2025
Jennifer Louise Halse March 13, 2025
Lotte Imke Dorien Rietveld Feb. 23, 2023
Louis Peter Requena Sept. 17, 2026
Robert John Mason Sept. 17, 2026
Ruth Ingman Sept. 17, 2026