The Rainbow of Hope/Paradise Run

Providing food and drink on the streets of Cardiff every night 7 nights every week of the year,;Providing 200 food hampers each month to homes of those in real need;Providing food and drink, Bible study, English classes, asylum seekers help at our drop-in centre.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Cardiff

Area of benefit in its governing document: City of Cardiff and Surrounding Area

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 15 October 2025, it had income of £45,002 and spent £53,590.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 8%, from £49,050 in the year to 15 October 2021 to £45,002 in the year to 15 October 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 119% of its income in the year to 15 October 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 15 October 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £9,610, awarded in 2018.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Elizabeth Perret-atkinsChair
• Anthony William Jeremy
• Councillor Freda SalwayAppointed 4 November 2016
• Maureen DaviesAppointed 19 July 2021
• Paul ThomasAppointed 17 October 2025
• William OliverAppointed 4 November 2016

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1088856

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 October 2001

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 31 MARCH 2001 AS AMENDED 17 SEPTEMBER 2001

Website

www.rainbowofhope.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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