Tesco Beverley’s Community Food Connection scheme has received praise from The Cherry Tree Centre manager Jo Ramsay.
Currently, The Cherry Tree Centre helps feed over 180 people in the town each week. This is partly made possible as a result of the support offered by the local Tesco store in Beverley.
An incentive run by Tesco, Community Food Connection is appealing for more groups to come forward.
The scheme sees waste food which would otherwise be destroyed redistributed to local charities to help feed those in need.
Tesco’s Beverley store has joined hundreds of others across the UK to celebrate four years of the supermarket’s surplus food donation scheme.
The store showcased the Community Food Connection scheme, which is run in conjunction with food charity FareShare.
Tesco is marking its centenary by offering community projects across North and East Yorkshire the chance to bag their share of a huge £100,000 funding pot.
As part of the supermarket’s anniversary celebrations, community organisations from across North and East Yorkshire are being invited to share in the funding during two special Bags of Help voting rounds.
Little Weighton Primary School has expressed their thanks to Tesco customers for the support they were given.
The school were winners on the Tesco Incentive Bags of Help which saw them being awarded a £1,000 grant.
Leven Playing Field Association have thanked Tesco for their support in paying for an £80,000 incentive to renovate a park for local children.
Fundraiser Kathy Noble thanked Tesco and their customers after they were awarded £2,000 in the stores Bags of Help draw.
AEDdonate are the latest group to win £2,000 in the Tesco March/April Bags of Help customer vote. Shoppers at the Morton Lane store voted for the project called ‘Defibrillators for Beverley’ .
The defibrillator is to be sited at the Game Bird Public House on Holme Church Lane, Beverley and Tesco recently visited the pub to make the cheque presentation.
Tesco in Beverley have handed over thousands of pounds to The Old School House Care Home after they won the customer’s vote for in the Bags of Help incentive.
Winning for March and April, The Old School House Care Home will use the funds to deliver a project called Digging for Dementia.
Beverley St Nicholas Community Primary School have thanked Tesco after they were awarded £2000 from the Bags of Help Scheme.
Customers who use the Tesco Store on Morton Lane in Beverley voted for Beverley St Nicholas Community Primary School to win the contents for January and February of this year.
Tesco in Beverley has given local community groups a massive cash boost via the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.
Molescroft Primary School and East Riding Voluntary Action Services (ERVAS) are the latest groups to bag funding, earning grants of £5,000 and £2,000 respectively, which have been funded from the 5p carrier bag charge.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Road Safety Team has joined with Tesco’s Beverley store to deliver a series of fun and healthy ‘active breakfasts’ to primary schools across the Beverley area.
Beverley RUFC U13s and U14s thanks to a fund raiser at the local Tesco store have given their club funds a real boost.
Dave Ryley, for the Tesco store in Beverley says thanks to the generosity of people in the town a scheme run to collect food donations was a great success.
Tesco were pleased to welcome the Beverley Christmas Lights Appeal Group to pack in our store on Saturday 21st November.
Tesco say a local community effort to clear litter from the streets of Beverley was a great success.
Mill Lane United Wizards manager Chris Sadler has thanked Tesco after his side were allowed to fund raise in their Beverley store.
Tesco Beverley’s Community Champion Dave Ryley has expressed his gratitude after the store in Beverley collected over 250 trays during the Neighbourhood Food Collection.
Beverley’s Primary Schools having been enjoying a fun and healthy active breakfast thanks to a new scheme involving the super market giant Tesco and East Riding of Yorkshire Council.