Tesco gives charity support
A HALIFAX-BASED charity supporting adults with learning disabilities is helping promote healthy lifestyles, thanks to Tesco’s Community Food Connection (CFC) scheme.
Charity group, Skillshop, uses donations from Tesco’s CFC scheme, run in partnership with FareShare, to provide hearty meals for members of the community with learning difficulties in Halifax.
Simone Wilkinson, Centre Manager of Skillshop, said: “The food donations through Tesco’s Community Food Connection scheme helps us a great deal in providing meals to adults with learning disabilities across Halifax.
“We have more than 40 members of the community attend our centre throughout the week, as well as the functions and events we put on.
“The donations have really helped to reduce the cost of our weekly shop. We use the items towards a variety of hearty, nutritious meals, to be used either the day we receive them or later on in the week.
“The donations from Tesco are such a fantastic resource for our scheme. We collect them up to seven times a week and our members are always interested to know what we’ve got on the menu each day.”
Tesco’s Community Food Connection has donated surplus food to more than 7,000 charities and community groups.
The scheme pairs Tesco stores with charities and community groups by using a mobile app to alert them about available unsold surplus food items.
This food is then collected by charities and supplied to people in need, ensuring that no good food goes to waste.
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