Costa Foundation

Building schools and futures

The farmers who grow coffee around the world are an essential part of our business – we couldn’t keep inspiring the world to love great coffee without them! However, we know that many coffee-growing communities are in remote rural areas in some of the world’s poorest countries, and children in these communities often have little or no access to education.

The mission of the Costa Foundation is to fund schools and school projects in coffee-growing communities which provide the opportunity to access a safe, quality education. The charity does this by:

• Building new schools or extending existing ones

• Investing in water supplies and providing electricity

• Furnishing the new buildings

• Providing computers and other essential technology

• Building toilets and teacher accommodation

• Promoting gender equality

• Developing land for students to grow crops.

Change a child's life story

Education is the key to changing children’s life stories, so we're working hard to build quality schools. They are built in some of the world’s most remote communities, with locations carefully chosen to provide support where it is most needed.

The Costa Foundation supports these communities without expecting anything in return, which means we are often helping farmers in areas where we are not able to buy coffee. We don’t do things by halves, and we definitely don’t do average. Our fundraising builds brilliant schools for amazing young people.

9 different countries across the coffee belt now benefit from a Costa Foundation school project, including Colombia, Uganda and Vietnam. We’re really proud of all that the charity has achieved so far and are looking forward to changing the life stories of even more children in the future.

Putting the fun firmly into fundraising

We are always amazed by the creative ideas that our teams come up with to raise money for the Costa Foundation, as well as the support of our partners and customers.

In our stores, you may spot fundraising games on the counter and hear about our team members' contributions by exciting challenges and fun events. Check below for some of our favourites to look out for.