Tesco donates £11,500 to Luton groups impacted by Covid-19

A total of £11,500 was given to groups across the local area since the start of the pandemic, with Tesco providing an extra £4million of extra funding to groups across the UK reacting to the pandemic.

The grants were part of the retailer's £30million package of support to help local communities tackling the Coronavirus outbreak.

A full list of groups in Luton which benefited from the grant include:

> Luton Foodbank

> Little Gems Pre-school

> Round Green Pre-school

> Green House Mentoring

> Signposts

> Families United Network

> British Red Cross Society

> The Friends of Mary Seacole

> First Stockwood Brownies

> The Mall Nursery and Creche

> Azalea

> Action Force Community Group

> 1st Limbury Rainbows

> Marsh Bears Nursery

> Keech Hospice Care

> Lewsey Farm Learning Centre

> Luton Tamil Welfare CIC

> Sorted Counselling Services

> Skillsmax Limited

> Open Doors Training and Development Trust

> EBA PTA

> Studham Good Neighbours Scheme

> Marsh Bears Nursery

Keith Jackson, regional communications manager at Tesco, said: "Due to the sustained need for the emergency support we saw from local community groups, we took the decision to extend the scheme's deadline beyond the original 12-week mark.

"We're proud to have worked with all kinds of groups up the length and breadth of the country, all of whom were in urgent need of a cash boost in order to go on providing local people with vital services.”

Tesco CEO, Dave Lewis, added: “Our stores are at the heart of the communities we serve and as well as supporting our customers and colleagues, we wanted to help those who need it most, locally.

"We significantly boosted our food donations programme, to ensure food banks and community groups have the supplies they need while giving extra resources to the British Red Cross and focus our Bags of Help scheme to deliver more community support where it’s most needed at this difficult time.”