# Tesco’s sweet donation helps the bees

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/13/tescos-sweet-donation-helps-bees/
- Published: 2017-02-13T09:00:13+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Tesco stores in Devon and Cornwall are donating sugar from split bags that is 
no longer fit for human consumption to a local bee conservation charity**.

The sugar is being used to feed bees that are struggling to find enough nectar, 
with beekeepers turning it into syrup or fondant, which is given to the bees as 
a replacement for nectar and honey.

Tesco’s community manager at Callington store in Cornwall, Lucy Hughes, came up 
with the idea following a conversation with two beekeeper friends. The programme
is run in partnership with the Bee Improvement Programme for Cornwall ([BIPCo](http://www.bipco.co.uk/))
and currently involves around 10 stores.

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Hughes commented:

> “Bees are not only central to the process of pollinating crops which later become
> our food but are an iconic part of the Great British countryside. I hope this 
> small but important project will go some way to support our local bees and help
> them through the winter months.”

Tesco is also helping bees in Cornwall and Devon through its [Bags of Help](http://www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp)
initiative. The scheme has provided over £25 million to more than 3,000 community
projects across the UK so far, with sister group to BIPCo, [B4](http://www.b4project.co.uk/)(
Bringing Back the Black Bees) receiving £10,000 worth of funding that it will use
to construct a haven for native black honey bees at Mount Edgcumbe in South East
Cornwall.

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