CUSTOMERS at Redditch’s Tesco can support families facing financial difficulties during the Easter school holidays by picking up an extra bag to put through the checkout.
The donation bags, which cost between £2 and £5, are pre-packed with healthy long life food items.
They will be available in every large Tesco store in and around Redditch during the Easter break from March 30 to April 12 to make donating the most-needed items to the charities FareShare and The Felix Project and Trussell easier than ever.
Trussell said foodbank use remained 45 per cent higher than in 2019, before the pandemic, with foodbanks in the Trussell community providing the equivalent of one parcel every 12 seconds throughout 2025.
Parents are among the people shouldering the heaviest burden, as families with children received almost two-thirds of all parcels in 2025.
FareShare and The Felix Project have recently merged to become the UK’s leading food redistribution charity, providing good-to-eat surplus food to more than 8,000 charities and community groups – 83 per cent of which support families with children.
Customers can donate any long-life items to support FareShare and The Felix Project and Trussell, but the items most needed are tinned meat and fish, long life fruit juice, cooking/pasta sauces, tinned vegetables, and tinned and dried soup.
Charlotte Hill, CEO at FareShare and The Felix Project, said: “These pre-packed donation bags make it easy for shoppers to donate long-life items that help charities and make a real difference to families in need.”
Other key items that can be donated as part of the scheme are pasta, rice and noodles, cereal and porridge, tea and coffee, sponge/rice pudding, and UHT and powered milk.
