Tesco Beverley’s Community Champion Dave Ryley has expressed his gratitude after the store in Beverley collected over 250 trays during the Neighbourhood Food Collection.
Held across three days earlier in the month, customers who shop in Tesco along with the help of a number of local schools collected enough food to fill 252 food trays.
Tesco will now weigh the food before adding an additional 30%. Food collected will allow foodbank’s in the area to distribute thousands of meals to local people in need.
Speaking about Neighbourhood Food Collection event Mr. Ryley said;
“We would like to thank all of our customers who supported our collection. Thanks to your fantastic generosity, we can provide much needed food for hundreds of local people.”
“We would also like to thank Beverley High School and Keldmarsh, Woodmansey and Little Weighton Rowley Primary Schools who have all held their own collections in support of ours.”
“Additionally we would like to thank all the volunteers from the Beverley branch of the Holderness Foodbank who helped with the collection throughout and also Councillor Peter Astell, Mayor of Beverley, who helped hand out leaflets on the Saturday.’’
In the UK figures indicate that food was given out just over a 1 million times during 2014 to 2015 with a third of this being given to feed children.
Tesco say that through the Neighbourhood Food Collection they have to date with the support of their customers provide over 21 million meals.
Working with The Trussell Trust and FareShare, who provide food to people in need, Tesco also donate surplus stock, so far donating 1,800 tonnes of surplus food.
Using the figures set out by Tesco, customers and a local schools in Beverley plus the top up mean enough food was collected to produce 8,658 meals.
