Costa Coffee Donates 150,000 To Coffee Growing Communities To Improve Education

Franchising.com:

Profits raised from Costa Coffee’s inaugural National Foundation Day, held over the weekend in its 700 UK stores, are being donated to the Costa Foundation today. The registered charity was set up by the UK’s largest and fastest growing coffee shop chain in 2006 to help to build schools and improve the lives of coffee growing communities around the world.

Costa customers helped to raise £150,000 on Saturday 14 June which will now help build three new schools in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Uganda, making a tangible difference to coffee farmers and their communities.

Costa Coffee Marketing Director and Costa Foundation Trustee, David Hutchinson says,

“We wanted to give something back to the communities where we source our coffee and local farmers have specifically told us that the best way Costa can help is by focusing on education through building schools for their children.