Tesco and FareShare are calling on charities and community groups in and around Newton Aycliffe to register for an exciting new scheme which will see unsold food become meals for vulnerable people across the area.
As part of its ongoing pledge to cut food waste, Tesco’s Community Food Connection programme with FareShare FoodCloud recruits and supports charities and community groups, linking them to Tesco stores via an innovative app that allows store teams to alert them to surplus unsold food items available at the end of each day.
The unsold food is free and includes fresh produce, such as fruit, vegetables and bakery products. Chilled products like meat, dairy and ready meals are also offered.
There have been 275,000 meals donated to people in need via Community Food Connection
following a successful pilot in 14 stores last year and a national rollout from March that has seen 712 charities sign up to the scheme so far.
Any charities or community groups in Newton Aycliffe using food to support people that would like to access the scheme, should register their interest by visiting www.fareshare.org.uk/fareshare-foodcloud or call into store to speak to Shirley Cormack Community Champion or Debbie Hocking Fresh Foods Manager for more information.