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New University Partnership – King’s College London

January 12, 2021 / Announcements

We are happy to announce our newest university partnership with King’s College London. King’s will join our current university partners, who can be found here: https://cowriescholarshipfoundation.org.uk/partners/ Each of the six

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Liverpool Responds Talk: Enabling Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

December 4, 2020 / Events

We are very excited to announce that our founder, Richard Oreffo, will be speaking on the University of Liverpool’s event series Liverpool Responds. Liverpool Responds is a fortnightly online event

Cowrie Scholarship Talk with Social Impact Lab

November 23, 2020 / Events

We are excited to announce our founder Richard Oreffo will be joining Social Impact Lab to discuss ‘Transforming lives through access to higher education’. Richard will be joining Dr. Pathik

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Cowrie Scholarship Biz Talk with CirQulate

November 15, 2020 / Events

We are very excited to be on Biz Talk this week, a webinar/talk show hosted by CirQulate. Our founder Richard Oreffo will be talking about the foundation including our exciting

New University Partnerships

October 6, 2020 / Announcements

We are very proud to announce that we have three new university partnerships with: – Queen Mary University of London – University of Edinburgh – University of Liverpool These leading

Registered Charity Announcement

September 28, 2020 / Announcements

We are very excited to announce that we have received charity status. We have been entered onto the Register of Charities with the Registered Charity Number: 1191471 Your support for

Why is the foundation called Cowrie?

September 28, 2020 / About

This is one of the first questions that we get here at the foundation- why did you decide to call it cowrie? The foundation was named after the cowrie shell,