Rainbow Trust marks its 40th anniversary year with its annual London carol concert at St Paul’s Knightsbridge, the Elstree School Chapel Choir leading the carols.
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity holds its annual London Carol Concert at St Paul’s Knightsbridge on Thursday 3 December 2026, in its 40th anniversary year. The Elstree School Chapel Choir leads the congregational carols.
Rainbow Trust was set up four decades ago to support families who have a child with a life-threatening or terminal illness. Its Family Support Workers sit with children in hospital, drive families to medical appointments and look after brothers and sisters.
They stay with a family from diagnosis through treatment and, where it comes to that, through bereavement. The charity has six care teams working from nine locations across the UK.
Its latest figures count 1,274 families with a seriously ill child supported, and 645 siblings given someone to talk to. The money raised at the concert pays for that support.
The programme sets carols beside festive performances and readings from the charity’s celebrity supporters. Mulled wine and mince pies are served in the interval.
This year’s readers are still to be named. Past concerts have welcomed the novelist Sebastian Faulks, the broadcaster Annabel Croft and the actress Helen Worth.