Thank you Tesco customers!

4,146 meals for Gloucester’s community

We would like to say a huge thank you to the wonderful community champions Theresa & Helen, and the overwhelmingly kind customers of Tesco Quedgeley & Brockworth for helping us during our recent Food Drive on Thursday 8th August. We handed out hundreds of shopping lists and information leaflets, whilst talking about the vital work we do to support local people in times of crisis.

The numbers

We are so grateful for the kindness and compassion of Tesco’s customers. Collectively donating a staggering 1,741.25kg of essential items including food, toiletries, and baby care products that will support our clients when they need it most.

This donation will support us to provide 4,146 meals in our emergency food parcels.
Alongside stock, we also received over £200 in cash donations via our donation buckets.

What impact will this have?

The donations made are being used to fill our emergency parcels, once they have been sorted by our warehouse team. The amount collected in this drive is enough for 1-2 weeks worth of parcels, which is a real boon to us during times of such pressure on our service.

A special thank you

It goes without saying that we could not have achieved this without the dedication of our volunteers, we are very lucky to have such an involved team who donate their time to ensure we can hold these collection drives.

We also hosted some special guest volunteers from Octavius Infrastructure who reached out to us during their Gloucester Railways project to give back to the local community by donating their time in kind.  Thank you, you were all fantastic!

If you would like to learn more about how you can help us ensure no one in Gloucester goes without the essentials, please visit our ‘Give Help‘ page.

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