Community Food Connection at Tesco Beverley
Tue 4th February 2020
Tesco Beverley are pleased to be working with the East Yorkshire Foodbank, Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre, Leven Charity Pre-school and Long Riston Playgroup in their Community Food Connection food donation programme.
As part of our pledge to cut food waste, the scheme supports charities and community groups, enabling the store to donate surplus unsold food items at the end of each day. Since the scheme started in 2016, over 72,000 meals have been donated to these groups from the Beverley store.
Tesco staff recently visited the Cherry Tree Centre to find out how the donations are helping people in the local community. Manager Jo Ramsay said: ''We are extremely grateful for Tesco for allowing us to collect food twice a week for our Food For Families Project that is run from the Cherry Tree Community Centre.
The food gets shared between our community groups, the ladies group, the youth club, pensioners group, the clients that come to us for benefit advice as well as the local community. We get anything from a variety of breads and various fruits and vegetables. We rely on our amazing volunteers to collect the food on a Monday and Thursday evening."
Tesco Beverley still have Friday and Saturday nights available for other groups to benefit from the programme. Please contact Dave Ryley, Tesco Beverley's Community Champion, (07871 572742 / beverley.community@tesco.com) if you would like more information.
