The original Cookie Bar launched in 2011 and was officially opened
by Lord Joffe, patron of COINS Foundation. 

Coffee and cookies

We serve freshly roasted coffee, home-baked cookies and a range of sandwiches, cakes and hot and cold drinks.

Business as a force of good

The Cookie Bar is a locally run social enterprise – we’re running it for profit, as a business. But we invest our profits socially – half goes to schools, and half to projects supported by COINS Foundation. 

Real-life work experience

The Cookie Bar provides an environment for pupils to experience all aspects of running a business and helps young people in their journeys to become social and economic contributors. 

Cookie Bar Bus

In 2015, Coins Foundation, with the help of a successful Crowdfunding appeal, converted a 1963 Routemaster bus into a mobile Cookie Bar. Read More

Get connected

We’re using a lot of technology in our Cookie Bar. Why? Because the new technologies don’t recognise physical disability – they recognise intellectual capability. Students using technology can be set free – socially, economically and creatively – but in a controlled environment. 

Projects we support

By choosing to patronise the Cookie Bar, you make a contribution
to wider society. This could be supporting a housing microfinance
programme in Uganda, helping clients to take out home improvement
loans. Or your support could help to build and run new secondary schools
in Zambia, where thousands of children are without access to secondary education.

What else

At the Cookie Bar we offer:

Free Wi-Fii
Macs and iPads
Technology sessions
Children’s play area
Art exhibited and for sale by local artists 
African arts and crafts for sale