Tescotogive awayits surplusfood

TESCO in Killarney are calling on a number of local community organisations to sign up to their surplus food programmes, through which local organisations receive high quality surplus food that would otherwise go to waste at the end of the store day.

This initiative, powered by the FoodCloud application, is already in use in a number of stores nationwide, with the surplus food being put to great use by local organisations through school breakfasts, cookery lessons and food for the homeless; Charities that have benefited to date range from local community centres, breakfast clubs, addiction rehabilitation services, homelessness charities, women’s refuges, elderly support centres, children and youth organisations, to name but a few.

Through the FoodCloud application, Tesco can notify a number of charities about which food is available for collection that day, with the types of food usually donated by Tesco including meat, bread, chilled convienience foods, milk, dairy and fresh fruit and vegetables.

“Even in the most efficient retail operations, there will inevitably be surplus food and we are thrilled to be making a valuable contribution to local communities enabling organisations to focus on the vital services they provide. We encourage any community groups from across Kerry that think they can benefit from receiving surplus food to get involved today by dropping in to our Killarney Park store,” said Dermot Hever, Store Manager in Tesco Killarney Park.

Tesco is encouraging any charity or local community group from across Kerry that could benefit from receiving surplus quality food products to get involved, organisations can find out more by popping into their local Tesco Store or signing up on food.cloud.