The original Cookie Bar launched in 2011 and was officially opened
by Lord Joffe, patron of COINS Foundation.
We serve freshly roasted coffee, home-baked cookies and a range of sandwiches, cakes and hot and cold drinks.
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.
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.
In 2015, Coins Foundation, with the help of a successful Crowdfunding appeal, converted a 1963 Routemaster bus into a mobile Cookie Bar. Read More
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.
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.
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