More than 60 cases of food collected as part of the Neighbourhood Food Collection initiative in Newmarket
A team from AMT Fruit mucked in with Tesco staff to collect food donations from customers for charity.
The AMT Fruit volunteers were on hand at Tesco Extra Newmarket collecting food donations from customers on Thursday and Friday in the first week of December.
Shoppers were extremely generous, and more than 60 cases of food were collected as part of the Neighbourhood Food Collection initiative.
Run by Tesco with partner charities FareShare and The Trussell Trust, the initiative, now in its seventh year, aims to provide at least five million meals to people in need this winter.
AMT Fruit, as part of Tescoʼs drive to reduce food waste, has been working with FareShare on an ongoing basis, supplying surplus stock of citrus, grapes and melons to their many charities supported across the UK.
This surplus food is combined with the food donated during the Neighbourhood Food Collection and redistributed to charities and community projects who transform it into nutritious meals for their beneficiaries.
Last year, FareShare redistributed enough food for 16.6 million meals to 2,135 charities and community projects.