Costa Foundation
Emily Wilson is a finance professional with extensive experience in internal controls and auditing. Currently serving as a Senior Internal Controls Manager and Finance Transformation Manager at Costa Coffee since November 2021, Emily also contributes as a Finance Volunteer for the Costa Foundation, providing financial advice to the Board of Trustees and Projects Committee since February 2023. Prior to these roles, Emily held positions at The Coca-Cola Company as a Senior International Auditor and at Costa Coffee as an Internal Auditor. With a solid foundation in finance, Emily's career began at Whitbread, where roles included Group Internal Auditor, Commercial Finance Analyst, and Property Finance Analyst. Academically, Emily holds a Master's Degree in Biological Science from The University of Sheffield and a CIMA Accountancy qualification from BPP University.
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Costa Foundation
Without additional measures, by 2030 84 million children and youth will be out of school. In coffee growing communities, this challenge is further exacerbated by financial pressures, the risks of travelling long distances to rural schools, and seasonal migration to harvest coffee. The Costa Foundation is a grant giving body that was established in 2007 as the charitable foundation of Costa Coffee to improve the life chances of children and young people in coffee growing communities by providing the opportunity for a safe, quality education. Over the past 17 years, the Costa Foundation has invested over £20 million on more than 100 new schools, over 800 classrooms in 10 countries, giving in excess of 120,000 children access to education in coffee-growing communities across the world. We work with coffee growing communities across the globe and currently our support focuses on Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. Our work is only made possible thanks to our fantastic partners: • Ecom Agroindustrial Corp • Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia • Fundacion Nicafrance • Imagine 1 Day • PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) • Plan International • Seeds for Progress • Volcafe If you would like to find out more, discuss becoming a partner, fundraise for us or make a donation, then please get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.