day announced it will provide the equivalent of seven million meals a year to more than 1,000 charities across the UK by strengthening its partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare.The news comes as figures published today by FareShare show the organisation is facing record levels of demand for its services and providing food to more organisations than ever before.
To help meet the demand, Tesco will be diverting all surplus fresh food from its distribution centres and online grocery centres to support FareShare. This will amount to more than 2,300 tonnes – enough for 7m meals each year. Tesco will provide FareShare with fresh produce including chicken and other fruit and vegetables.
Produce provided by the supermarket will include chicken, fruit and vegetables.
The partnership will result in FareShare helping the charities – which include homeless shelters, breakfast clubs for children and luncheon clubs for the elderly – to save an estimated £4m in the first year of the scheme. Many of the charities invest these savings into providing more support services, such as counselling, for the people they help.
Tesco currently provides FareShare with surplus food collected via its online grocer delivery centres.
