Rainbow Services

Rainbow Services works for change to alleviate the effects of disadvantage, deprivation and social exclusion through imaginative projects that support, enable and develop people and organisations, and which stimulate beneficial change in the Harlow community and beyond. Established in Harlow in 1999, we achieve this aim with the following delivery:... Rainbow Services provides infrastructure support to local voluntary and community groups, holding regular meetings and publishing a weekly e-bulletin sharing information on subjects relevant to the sector. Rainbow Services provides direct services to the local community via our Community Builder project, which is currently supporting local older residents. Our Business Engagement project is working to facilitate a more structured approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and to create a better pipeline for business involvement and volunteering opportunities with the wider Voluntary Sector and local community. The Recycling Workshop project is a contracted arrangement (with Sodexo) to provide a workplace environment for offenders who have received a Community Service Order through the courts in an environment that is, whilst punitive, also rehabilitative and constructive. A new project supporting young people at risk of crime, gangs, drugs, exclusion from school and anti-social behaviour brings them together with ex-offenders, older volunteers, and other community mentors in our Workshop to create items for community organisations, build positive networks and self-image, and be signposted onto sustainable activities in the community. Rainbow Services encourages the development of community responses to local challenges and co-ordinates workshops, training, and pilot projects which build community skills and resilience, including Making Every Contact Count, Mental Health Awareness, Falls Prevention, My Weight Matters weigh-in sessions, and we are registered as an Online Centre, enabling supported access to the Learn My Way digital skills courses.Read More