Healthy cooking course returns to Penley
Practical cookery sessions to help people learn to cook healthy home-made meals returns to The Rainbow Foundation. Preparing a Healthy Meal is a FREE four-week cookery course for people who would like to learn more about healthy eating. The course, which completed its first programme in May of this year, is back to provide people […]
Community Roadshows returns to South Wrexham
The Rainbow Foundation’s Community Roadshow returns to South Wrexham supporting local residents to claim their full benefit entitlement and help with the rising cost of living. Each year it is estimated that up to £3.5 billion of state benefits in the UK go unclaimed by older people. Following the success of our previous roadshow which took […]
Award-winning charity launches home care service in Wrexham
Award-winning charity gains Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) registration to launch quality home care service for residents of South Wrexham Active aging charity, The Rainbow Foundation, is launching their quality home care and support service across South Wrexham, the new home care service builds on their award-winning day opportunities service which has been operating for 28 years, […]
Social Prescribing available in GPs across Wrexham
The Rainbow Foundation celebrates the Social Prescribing project which continues to deliver mental health and wellbeing support to patients at GP Surgeries across Wexham. This was part of National Social Prescribing week which ran from March 4 to March 10. A Social Prescriber can help patients establish what matters to them and provide them with […]
The Rainbow Foundation launches a new day opportunities service in Chirk
The new service opened its doors on Monday 21st February and focuses on enhancing and developing relationships and building self-confidence. This enables clients to better manage their health, wellbeing and self-care while combating loneliness. Town Councillors Frank Hemmings (Chirk North) and Terry Evans (Chirk South) visited the centre on Monday 7th March along with Councillor […]
The Rainbow Foundation’s FREE ‘Active Futures’ classes are improving strength and balance
now taking bookings for more classes starting in March! ‘Active Futures’ is a programme of free physiotherapist led exercise classes targeting over 65’s in the Wrexham area who are at risk of falls, which is being delivered by the Rainbow Foundation. The classes are designed to help improve your strength and balance and reduce the risk of […]
The Steve Morgan Foundation donates a new bus to The Rainbow Foundation
The Steve Morgan Foundation has delivered 89 Smiley Buses with two more on order since launching in 2001 and The Rainbow Foundation is the latest beneficiary. CEO Caroline Tudor-James said community transport is a lifeline to many people, especially to the older elderly living across rural communities of Wrexham, and the bus will help them expand their services […]
Join Coldplay in supporting The Rainbow Foundation to combat the current care crisis
Coldplay has donated a Fender guitar signed by all four members of the band as a raffle prize to raise vital funds to help combat the current care crisis in Wrexham. The guitar is just one of the raffle prizes offered by The Rainbow Foundation based in South Wrexham, Wales as part of their Festive Fundraiser […]
The Rainbow Centre becomes a Living Wage Employer
Over the past two years the Rainbow Centre has been working towards becoming a Living Wage Employer and are very proud to confirm that they have achieved this milestone! As one of nearly 7000 employers across the UK who have proudly committed to pay a real Living Wage to their staff, the Rainbow Centre believes […]
The Rainbow Centre: delivering mental health and wellbeing support across Wrexham this Social Prescribing Day
As part of ‘National Social Prescribing Day’ (18th March) the Rainbow Centre celebrate the Wrexham wide Social Prescribing project which continues to deliver mental health and wellbeing support to patients at GP Surgeries across Wrexham. Around 1 in 10 adults were experiencing some form of depression prior to the coronavirus pandemic and this figure has […]
