Oakengates charity benefits from food donations
Sainsbury’s Telford has gone into partnership and is donating surplus food that is still healthy, nutritious and within it use-by dates to the Salvation Army, Oakengates.
The charity is now collecting bread and fruit and vegetables on a daily basis and this food is being used in the community to support families, the elderly and provide food parcels.
The food donation scheme is aimed at charities and organisation that could really benefit from receiving surplus fresh food products that would otherwise go to waste.
Ian Sutton, store manager said “We hate wasting food and really believe that old saying “Waste not; want not” We are really happy that local charities, within our community can benefit from our food donations scheme. We are looking forward to working with the Salvation Army in Oakengates”
Nationally Sainsbury’s works with the organisation FareShare, they distribute surplus food to local charities and projects including St Catherine’s Convent of Mercy, Edinburgh. Gary Bruce, Community affairs manager at Sainsbury’s store support centre said “There are hundreds of hungry mouths to feed in your local community and by donating food to charities and organisations we are saving thousands of tonnes of food needlessly going to landfill. We really want to drill into the local community a lot more and get more local charities, animal sanctuaries and even Zoos involved in our food donations scheme”
