Bexhill Tesco seeks good causes to receive surplus food

Charities and community groups in and around Bexhill are being urged to register for a new scheme which will see unsold food become meals for vulnerable people across the town.
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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.

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There have been around 1,000,000 meals donated to people in need via Community Food Connection to date, following a successful pilot in 14 stores last year and a national rollout from March this year, that has seen more than 2,220 charities sign up to the scheme so far.

FareShare FoodCloud is the result of a unique three-way partnership bringing the charity, social enterprise and commercial sectors together.

FareShare brings its knowledge of the UK charity food redistribution market and its experience of providing food. FoodCloud brings its knowledge of the technology and online applications needed to connect businesses with surplus food. Tesco brings the people and technology required to deliver a reliable and well-managed programme, and is the first retailer to invest in, and roll out, FareShare FoodCloud.

Rifka Chakkalakal, community food programmes manager at Tesco, said: “No food that can be eaten should go to waste.

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“We’re really excited to start working on this initiative to ensure that any unsold food we have is made use of.

“We are looking forward to forging strong links with local charities and community groups in Bexhill, and to use this initiative to support their efforts to help vulnerable people in our community.”

Any groups in Bexhill using food to support people that would like to access the scheme, should register their interest by visiting www.fareshare.org.uk/fareshare-foodcloud.

During the last three years, more than 16 million meals made up of surplus food has been donated to more than 2,500 charities and community groups.

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