Thousands of meals have been donated to food banks and groups feeding people, thanks to the generosity of Tesco’s Cornwall shoppers, figures released today reveal.

Cornwall shoppers, including customers at the Callington store, donated 32,462 meals as part of the overall total of 2.5 million meals donated to charities the Trussell Trust and FareShare by shoppers during last month’s Tesco Food Collection, with Tesco topping up the value of all the donations by an additional 20 per cent.

These donations are being used to provide food parcels for people in crisis as well as charities and community groups such as homeless shelters and older people’s lunch clubs who also receive surplus food from Tesco stores.

The donations from the three-day collection, from November 21 to 23, are in addition to items donated by customers throughout 2019. In the year to October, more than seven million meals were donated to food banks at in-store collection points.