Charities and community groups in the Launceston area are being invited to receive free surplus food from Tesco this summer.

Across the UK the supermarket donates hundreds of thousands of meals to good causes each week as part of its Community Food Connection scheme, run in conjunction with food charity FareShare.

Community Food Connection enables 7,000 charities and community groups to pick up free food from Tesco, but many school-operated groups take a break during the summer holidays, meaning food that would normally be donated could go to waste.

To combat that, Tesco is reaching out to charities and community groups to find out how they could benefit.

‘Whilst many school breakfast clubs don’t operate over the summer, we know that there are many groups doing holiday activities that could benefit from surplus food from their local Tesco store,’ said Alec Brown, Head of Community at Tesco.

‘We are encouraging local groups who do to get in touch with FareShare, to find out if our surplus food could support their work in the community this summer.’

If you are a charity or community group that could benefit from the support of Community Food Connection visit www.fareshare.org.uk/fareshare-go to register your interest.