Charities and community groups in Cornwall are being invited to sign up to receive surplus food from their local Tesco store.

Across the UK the supermarket distributes hundreds of thousands of meals to good causes every week as part of its Community Food Connection scheme, which is run in conjunction with food redistribution charity FareShare and powered by FoodCloud technology.

Almost 7,000 charities and community groups receive surplus food from Tesco through the scheme, with recipients including older people’s lunch clubs, school breakfast clubs and charities working with vulnerable and homeless people.

But more food is available, and Tesco is encouraging groups in Cornwall to find out more.

The surplus food available includes fresh produce such as fruit, vegetables, bakery products and chilled food like meat, cheese and ready meals.

Groups registered with Community Food Connection are given scheduled collection days and receive a text alert to tell them what food is available at their local Tesco store.

They can then choose what they want from the surplus food on offer.

Visit www.fareshare.org.uk/fareshare-go to find out more.