# More community groups to receive funding from Tesco’s £24 million bag charge fund - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/28/community-groups-receive-funding-tescos-24m-bag-charge-fund/ - Published: 2016-11-28T10:59:32+00:00 - Author: Howard Lake **Supermarket Tesco is changing the way it distributes funding from its Bags of Help initiative. It will give many more charities and groups the chance to share in the £24 million it distributes from the income it receives from charging for plastic bags.** From 1 December 2016 Tesco’s Bags of Help initiative will invite customers to vote for their favourite community projects **every month**. Until now the awards programme has been run every nine months. From 1 December Tesco customers will decide on a monthly basis which groups get grants of up to £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 in regions across the UK. The money must still be used by groups seeking to use and develop outdoor spaces in ways that will benefit their local community. ## Advertisement Voting for the first month’s groups will run in Tesco stores across the UK throughout December. Customers will be able to cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop. Each month 600 community groups will receive a grant, three in each of the 200 Tesco regions. ## 7,000 more projects [⌊Community gardening scheme.⌉⌊Community gardening scheme.⌉[ _A community gardening project funded by Tesco’s Bags of Help initiative._ Tesco estimates that the monthly funding will mean more than 7,000 projects receive funding from the scheme every year. Matt Davies, UK CEO from Tesco said: > “Over the last year, the money raised from our customers buying single-use carrier > bags has resulted in £24 million being awarded to over 2,400 local community projects– > all chosen by our customers. I’ve seen first-hand the diversity of brilliant projects, > ranging from outdoor classrooms, sports facilities, community gardens, play areas > and everything in-between. “In order for even more local projects to benefit from > this money, customers will now be invited to vote for their favourite community > projects every time they shop with us.” ## Groundwork Tesco is working with environmental improvement charity, Groundwork, to help deliver its Bags of Help scheme. Groundwork’s national Chief Executive, Graham Duxbury, said: > “Now that the scheme will be permanently open for applications, we expect even > more communities to benefit from fantastic projects that create or provide access > to better, healthier and greener places.” Nominations from community groups and customers can be made via Tesco’s [BagsofHelp](http://www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp) site.   _Main image: Tesco by  [Gordon Joly on Flickr.com](https://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/439516532)_ * **[Latte levy could be used to raise major sums for goods causes, CAF suggests](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/01/08/latte-levy-used-raise-major-sums-goods-causes-caf-suggests/)**( 8 January 2018) * **[Majority of Brits want latte levy money to go to charity](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/23/majority-brits-want-latte-levy-money-go-charity/)**( 23 January 2019) * **[Almost 6 in 10 people want plastic bag levy to benefit green charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/10/24/almost-6-10-people-plastic-bag-levy-benefit-green-charities/)**( 24 October 2019) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)