Tesco in new bid to provide millions of meals to households facing winter hardship

Britain's biggest supermarket is astir to footwear disconnected its 12th Winter Food Collection, allowing a antithetic mode for shoppers to donate items to those successful request up of the festive period

Tesco is moving an inaugural adjacent week aimed astatine donating millions of meals to households facing hardship this winter, with the assistance of customers.

The supermarket elephantine is moving its 12th yearly Tesco Winter Food Collection. The inaugural involves unit putting unneurotic pre-packed bags containing much-needed long-life nutrient items.

Shoppers tin past bargain the bags - which outgo betwixt £2 and £3 - and Tesco volition springiness them to nutrient slope foundation Trussell and FareShare.

Last twelvemonth saw Tesco customers donate implicit 2 cardinal meals worthy of nutrient and the grocer says it is hoping to apical that fig this clip astir by making donation bags disposable successful adjacent much stores.

All ample stores already connection them during the supermarket’s Winter Food Collection, but this clip 86 of Tesco’s largest Express stores volition besides banal them. It runs successful Express stores from November 25 to 30, and successful ample stores from November 28 to 30.

The bags are pre-filled with steadfast and nutritious long-life items and tin beryllium picked up successful store and paid for astatine the checkout. The most-needed items see UHT and powered milk, tinned nutrient and fish, and sponge and crystal pudding.

The donated nutrient is passed to FareShare and Trussell, which volition administer it to charities and nutrient banks to assistance families who request it most. Research from Trussell shows astir a 4th of children aged nether 4 are facing hunger and hardship, making them the property radical astir astatine risk.

Ken Murphy, Tesco radical main executive, said: “Our partners archer america they’ve seen adjacent much families needing their assistance and they expect request to summation this winter, truthful we’re encouraging customers to donate immoderate they tin to our Winter Food Collection. With beforehand enactment charities and foodbanks facing exceptionally precocious request this year, pre-packed donation bags marque it casual to marque a large quality to idiosyncratic else’s Christmas.”