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During our Summer Conference this month we did a team fundraising walk in support of Baby Basics UK fundraising initiative Bertie Bird’s Big Adventure. Bertie wants to travel all around the UK visiting each of the 58 Baby Basics Centres to say hello to the teams that work so hard to serve their local community and raise much needed money to… [...]

Last month, our wonderful Jayne and Helen took part in the Cardgains Charity Challenge, It’s Not Grim Up North, to raise money for Mind.org.uk, the charity who help people to recover, discover or improve their sense of wellbeing and mental health.  We are so proud of Jayne and Helen who  walked 17.5 miles (44,890 steps!) around Sheffield to help… [...]

As part of our ongoing ambition to create sustainable, durable ‘forever toys’,  we recently held a Sustainability Workshop for the team, with the help of The Purpose People. The objectives of the day were to help integrate sustainability into the culture of our organisation. During the morning session, we learnt about the need for change and… [...]

We a delighted to be supporting the wonderful charity, Spread a Smile, in their Christmas Campaign this year. The charity brings joy and laughter to seriously ill children in hospitals and hospices across the country, and this Christmas, will be sending out over 1,000 personalised gift hampers to the children and their siblings. We have very… [...]

It’s Award season once again and we are very excited to announce that lots of our adorable new toys have been shortlisted or already won awards this year!  At the Blog On Awards this month, our Mickey Memories Lullaby Soft Toy won the hotly contended Baby and Toddler Toy category, with our Bedtime Cuddles Peter Rabbit Nightlight scooping third… [...]

Supporting Nature is a fundamental part of our Rainbow Cares program and we are passionate about our partnership with JUST ONE Tree.  So on JUST ONE Tree day we all dressed up as our favourite trees, and raised another £750!  This equates to another 750 trees to add to our forest, that now stands at 1250 trees! Our forest not only creates rural… [...]

This month we held our Summer Company Conference at the wonderful New Place hotel in Southampton.  It is always special to get everyone together and we took the time to look at our exciting plans for the rest of this year and 2024.  As part of our Rainbow Cares programme we planted native trees to offset the conference in the grounds. This was… [...]

On 22 March, Team Rainbow took on a 225 mile cycle challenge to help raise important funds for the fantastic The Toy Project UK, a charity that recycles unwanted toys and raises money to provide toys for those in need of them and provides Community programs to bring people together with play.  Working on a relay basis, with a video link set up… [...]

At Rainbow we love to celebrate our team’s successes, both big and small, so last year we introduced The Gong, to be rung loudly whenever we achieve a big goal!  As you can see our very hard- working Warehouse Elves, Lorraine, Heather, Julie-Ann, Debbie and Connor really enjoyed their Gong moment as they celebrated getting everyone’s Christmas… [...]

With three out of four children reportedly worried about their future and the state of our planet, JUST ONE Tree, a non-profit initiative removing CO2 from the atmosphere and reversing biodiversity loss through global reforestation, invited schools and businesses across the UK to get involved in their fun awareness initiative, JUST ONE Tree Day.… [...]