# Tesco launches seventh Neighbourhood Food Collection

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/12/03/tesco-launches-seventh-neighbourhood-food-collection/
- Published: 2015-12-03T14:45:32+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**[Tesco](http://www.tesco.com/)’s seventh Neighbourhood Food Collection kicks off
today, taking place across all stores until Saturday 5^(th) December.**

The event is run by Tesco in partnership with [The Trussell Trust](http://www.trusselltrust.org/)
and [FareShare](http://www.fareshare.org.uk/), and aims to provide at least five
million meals to people in need this winter: making this its biggest Neighbourhood
Food Collection to date. In addition to the meals, Tesco is adding an extra 30% 
to all customer donations in the form of financial support to the two charities.

In the past, FareShare and The Trussell Trust have used this money to provide additional
services at foodbanks, such as in-house financial advice, holiday lunch clubs for
children, and the funding of deliveries in rural areas. The top-up has also helped
FareShare to expand its network and reach more people in need. The top-up has resulted
in combined funding of over £3.6 million to FareShare and The Trussell Trust since
2012.

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Since Tesco launched the Neighbourhood Food Collections in 2012, over 27.5 million
meals, including the Tesco top-up, have been donated. Tesco hopes that this latest
collection will take the total beyond 30 million. Tesco stores display shopping 
lists of the food required by both charities, and invite customers to buy any of
these items and to leave them at the store’s collection point.

The event relies heavily on volunteers, with last winter’s November collection involving
some 20,000 across the UK. Tesco’s last collection took place in July, and saw customers
donate [3.6m meals](http://https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2015/07/10/tesco-customers-donate-3-6m-meals-via-its-2015-neighbourhood-food-collection/).

Lindsay Boswell, CEO of FareShare, said:

> “It doesn’t need to take much, sadly, for an individual or a family to start struggling
> and experience hard times. The Neighbourhood Food Collection really helps us in
> our work to provide good food to 2,135 amazing frontline organisations which support
> people who are struggling to feed themselves.”

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   11 December 2015)
 * **[Tesco Neighbourhood Food Collection collects 2.8 million meals](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/07/22/tesco-neighbourhood-food-collection-collects-2-8m-meals/)**(
   22 July 2016)
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   26 April 2017)