A team from AMT Fruit mucked in withTesco 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 onThursday and Friday (3-4 December).
Shoppers were extremely generous, and more than 60 cases of food werecollected as part of the Neighbourhood Food Collection initiative.
Run by Tesco with partner charities FareShare and The Trussell Trust, theinitiative, now in its seventh year, aims to provide at least five million meals topeople in need this winter.
AMT Fruit, as part of Tescoʼs drive to reduce food waste, has been workingwith FareShare on an ongoing basis, supplying surplus stock of citrus, grapesand melons to their many charities supported across the UK.
This surplusfood is combined with the food donated during the Neighbourhood FoodCollection 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.
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