As you can see from the letter above Baroness Caroline Cox has agreed to become a patron to Room to Learn.

Baroness Cox is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords and was created a life peer in 1982. She was the deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005.

She is the founder and CEO of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) and has a long record of campaigning for humanitarian causes, particularly in relation to disability.

She was Founder Chancellor to Bournemouth University, Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006-2013 and is an Honorary Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing.

Additionally she was a founder Trustee of Medical Emergency Relief International (MERLIN).

We look forward to working with Baroness Cox and are delighted that she has agreed to be our patron.