Tesco offer grant help

Tesco has announced an additional £2million for its COVID-19 Community Fund – with £500 grants available for groups across the area.

Forming part of its £52million package of support to help local communities tackling the coronavirus outbreak, this brings the total to £4million of extra funding that has been made available to local groups through the supermarket’s Bags of Help scheme.

To date, the initiative has seen Tesco:

• Focus £2million of funding from its existing Bags of Help community donation scheme to charities that are helping the region’s most vulnerable;

• Provide an additional top up food donation of £15million of food over the past 11 weeks to FareShare and the Trussell Trust through its Community Food Connection scheme – food they need for distribution to community groups and food banks;

• Build on its existing partnership with the British Red Cross, seeing it donate £2million to help the group with the extra costs they face in supporting people in need;

• Open up access to more than £1million of funding to support causes in their local area.

Tesco’s Bags of Help COVID-19 Community Fund aims to support as many groups as possible across the country with grants of £500.

This includes, but is not limited to, women’s refuges, food banks, hospices, homeless charities, social isolation groups, schools, charities supporting the elderly and local authorities.

Local groups that would benefit from this funding are encouraged to apply via tescobagsofhelp.org.uk