Costa Coffee donates £57,000 to 68 UK charities through community grants scheme

Costa Coffee employees nominate local causes through this programme.

Costa Coffee has donated £57,000 to 68 charities and community groups across the UK through its Community Grants scheme, now in its sixth year.

The scheme allows Costa Coffee employees to nominate local causes, with grants ranging between £500 and £1,000 awarded this year. Since launching in 2021, the program has distributed more than £310,000 to charities and initiatives nationwide.

Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity received a £1,000 grant, nominated by a Costa Coffee store in Market Hall, Cannock. The hospital treats more than 100,000 children and young people annually and operates the UK's largest single-centre paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), which also serves as the lead PICU for the West Midlands.

A separate £1,000 grant went to Gisda, a Welsh youth services organisation, nominated by a Costa Coffee store on Pwllheli New Street. Gisda provides support aimed at preventing crisis and building opportunities for young people.

The grant will fund development of the Pwllheli Young People's Hub, a space intended to be shaped by young people's input, according to Gisda hubs leader Elin Jones.

Separately, the Costa Foundation, Costa Coffee's global charity partner, has funded more than 100 school projects in coffee-growing regions since 2007, reaching more than 120,000 children.

The foundation recently announced its first UK investment, £50,000 directed toward two schools, Treloar's School and College and Five Acre Wood School, supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities.