Island Shoppers Help Towards Donating Two Million Meals To Support Charities At Winter Food Collection

Generous Isle of Wight customers donated hundreds of meals to this year’s Tesco Winter Food Collection - providing much-needed support for FareShare and the Trussell Trust.

On the Isle of Wight the collection saw customers donate 1,725 meals to make a difference in their community.

Donations to the Trussell Trust help food banks provide emergency food parcels to people who cannot afford the essentials, while donations to FareShare support thousands of frontline local charities.

This year will see both charities face their busiest winter yet as more people turn to them for support.

The Trussell Trust is expecting to distribute one food parcel every eight seconds over the next three months and the charity has reported that 320,000 people needed to access a food bank for the first time between April and September – the most ever for this period.

Meanwhile, FareShare has over 1,500 frontline charities on its waiting list seeking food to help them provide meals for people facing hunger this winter.

Tesco CEO Ken Murphy said:

“The generosity of our Island customers is truly amazing. 

"From a single carton of long-life milk to a whole trolley of items, every customer who donated helped us to make this one of the most successful Winter Food Collections ever.”

In addition to the donations of food, the pre-Christmas Winter Food Collection saw Isle of Wight customers help towards donating more than £300,000 to the charities by rounding up their bills at the till and donating through a link from Tesco’s online groceries website.

Tesco also provides its unsold food to FareShare and altogether Tesco and its customers have given the equivalent of more than 39 million meals to both charities in the past year.

With both charities continuing to need support, Isle of Wight shoppers can continue to donate food at permanent collection points at every Tesco store in the UK or make a donation after their online shop.

They can also donate at https://fareshare.donr.com/tesco until February 2024.