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JUST ONE Tree Day
Last week we celebrated JUST ONE Tree Day to help raise awareness of the amazing work
JUST ONE Tree, a non-profit initiative, is doing to help remove CO2 from the atmosphere and reversing biodiversity loss through global reforestation.
As part of this fun awareness initiative, school children and businesses, across the UK,… [...]
- Charity
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Baby Basics Volunteer Day
Last week, some of team Rainbow spent the day at Baby Basics in Portsmouth, one of Rainbow’s very important charity partners. Baby Basics are a nationwide charity who provide much needed essentials and equipment to parents and families who are unable to provide these items for themselves.
In 2023, the Portsmouth branch… [...]
- Charity
- Inspiration
We absolutely loved our Volunteer Day with The TOY Project last month. Founded in 2013 by Jane Garfield and Angela Donovan, after they saw how some children had more toys than others, how schools needed resources but had little funds to source them, and importantly, how toys can help reduce stress and playing can help children in times of stress… [...]
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- Inspiration
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… [...]
- Charity
- Inspiration
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… [...]
- Sustainability
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… [...]
- Charity
- Inspiration
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… [...]
- Inspiration
- Awards
- For Kids
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… [...]
- Environment
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- Sustainability
- Charity
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… [...]
- Inspiration
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… [...]