Rainbow Services is a registered charity and was established in 1999. Rainbow works 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 local community.

The Rainbow Centre. Supports voluntary and community organisations within Harlow. The Rainbow Young Bus. Visits areas of Harlow where there are no designated safe play areas, to provide a free drop-in service to children and young people. The Re-use Workshop offering placements for community service workers to undertake their allocated hours. Quigy's Kitchen, a community cafe serving food made from locally sourced produce. The Resource Centre offering training and meeting facilities.

9824 volunteer hours were given to Rainbow Services. Over 300 collections and deliveries were made involving 10.5 tonnes of furniture reused within the local community - this constitutes bulky waste diverted from landfill. There were 93 e-briefings and electronic mail-outs, 4 newsletters and a total of 48 groups came to a total of 6 Voluntary Sector Forum events. The Rainbow Young Bus was used 2090 times over the year. Customers used Quigy's community café a total of 746 times.