Many of COINS clients, business partners and employees have over the years given active support through sponsorship, donations and personal participation to the annual COINS 3 Peaks Challenge.

In the past, the funds raised by the event have passed directly to CARE International who have disbursed the funds in accordance with their mandates and favoured projects. Increasingly our objective has become to both widen the distribution of the ever-growing amount of funds the event raises each year and to ensure that 100% of the funds raised go directly to worthy projects.

With this aim at the start of the year the COINS foundation was established, primarily as a vehicle to distribute all of the funds raised. The focus of the foundation is to support organisations that can demonstrate investment to tangibly improve the lives of many in an inclusive and sustainable way; particularly through projects with a strong focus on construction, education and technical innovation in learning and enablement.

We are now delighted to announce that by association Baron Joel Joffe fully endorses the aims of the COINS foundation. Lord Joel Joffe CBE has honoured COINS by accepting our invitation to become a patron of the newly formed COINS foundation. His human rights activist role coupled with his business expertise and NGO experience make him totally unique and ideal for the position.

His name will be familiar to some: born in South Africa Lord Joffe worked as a human rights lawyer from 1958 to 1965 including the infamous 1963/64 Rivonia trial representing Nelson Mandela. Later he moved to the UK and worked in the financial services industry helping to set up Allied Dunbar Assurance of which he became deputy chairman as well as being widely involved in the voluntary sector. He was associated with Oxfam in various roles between 1982 and 2001 including being its Chair between 1995 and 2001, and was also Chair of the Swindon Health Authority. He was awarded the CBE in 1999 and made a Life Peer on 16th February 2000, being raised to the peerage as Baron Joffe of Liddington in the County of Wiltshire.

The COINS foundation is a
registered charity. Registered
Charity No:1122148