Help stop kids going hungry by buying fresh fruit and veg
YOUR WEEKLY SUPERMARKET TRIP COULD HELP FEED FAMILIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THANKS TO A SCHEME BY TESCO AND FARESHARE
Tesco is teaming up with FareShare – the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors – to put meals on the table for families across the UK.
With its Buy One to Help A Child campaign, Tesco is pledging to make a donation towards feeding children and their families with every customer purchase of fresh fruit and vegetables.
By buying fresh produce instore or via tesco.com, you can help relieve food poverty in your local community so that no young person is left hungry.
Tesco’s motto is “every little helps”,and this goes far beyond keeping costs down with your weekly shop. Tesco is committed to helping community groups across Britain, aswell as supporting sustainability – and you canhelp too.
From March 21 to April 3, every time you purchase fresh fruit and vegetables from Tesco, the supermarket will make a donation to FareShare, which supports thousandsof frontline charities and community groups, from school holiday and breakfast clubs, to community kitchens and groups supplying vital food parcels to people in their community.
Families who rely on free school meals can struggle, especially during school holidays. And with more and more families worried about the cost of living, the Buy One to Help A Child campaign will help those who find themselves in thegreatest difficulty.
Buying a bunch of bananas, stocking up on strawberries or picking up potatoes will m ean you’re h e lping to ensure that similarly nutritious and fresh food reach es children and families in your local community.
Th e camp aign also builds on Tesco’s decade-long partnership with FareShare. Since 2012, together they have redistributed more than 130 million meals.
FareShare is made up of 18 independent organisations, working together to arrange for nourishing surplus food to be passed on to more than 10,500 charities and groups. Each week, it provides
That’s 5.2 tonnes ofgoodfoodevery year being redistributed to the organisations best placed to ensure it goes to the people who need it most.
Fa reS h a re CEO Lindsay Boswell says the donations from Tesco will makea real difference to charities working with child r e n , a nd th a nked customers for backing the campaign. “Supportin g the needs of young people early in their life is very important to us, as we see what a difference access to healthy food canmake. “In this, our 10th yearof partnership, weare very grateful for Tesco and its ongoing commitment to help FareShare redistribute goodto-eat food to thousands of charities across the UK.”
We can see what a difference access to healthy food can make for young people LINDSAY BOSWELL CEO, FARESHARE