TESCO in Carmarthen has provided more than 25,000 meals to community groups and charities, simply by not throwing food away.
The total has been revealed as the supermarket chain is rolling out the Community Food Connection to all of its UK stores.
The food was provided to the community over the last four years.
Alec Brown, Tesco’s head of community, said: “We know that Community Food Connection is making a real difference to communities in Carmarthen by providing people in need with meals from food that would otherwise go to waste.
“Now that all of our stores are taking part in Community Food Connection there are more opportunities than ever for groups to benefit from the free food provided under the scheme. I would invite any group that thinks they could benefit from the scheme to contact FareShare, as we have the capacity to help even more good causes.”
Lindsay Boswell, Chief Executive of FareShare, said: “This is an incredible milestone in store-level food redistribution to charities which Tesco has made possible since developing the programme with FareShare and FoodCloud.
“To date more than 20 million meals have been provided to charities and community groups taking part in the scheme, with food for 600,000 meals a week now being provided to good causes across the UK, saving them money which can be used to provide other services.”
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