A little help makes a big difference

Our motto 'every little helps' goes beyond just helping with your shopping. We’re also committed to helping customers, colleagues, communities, and the planet.

Help children thrive

Tesco Stronger Starts is committing £5m to help over 5,000 children's groups this year. Pick up your blue token in-store to help fund healthy food and activities for children in your area.*

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Watch the Stronger Starts TV ad

We're giving children a stronger start, because to dream big, some children need a helping hand

Support our Health Charity Partners

If you can, round up your shop to the nearest £1 at self-service tills. Together, we can help reduce the impact of cancer, diabetes, heart and circulatory diseases.**

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Help for hidden disabilities

We offer a range of support, including sunflower lanyards and aids for people with autism

Hidden disabilities

Helping you make better choices

Check out our deliciously balanced Diabetes UK approved recipes

See the recipes

Improving products

Offering more choice for different lifestyles and needs

Growing plant based

We've expanded our vegetarian and plant based range, as more and more of us choose to cut out meat from our diets

Plant based and vegetarian

Free from discomfort

Our award-winning Free From range gives customers on special diets the freedom to enjoy the food they love

Free From

Meat & Veg in one

Our Meat & Veg products are packed with 30% vegetables. They're flavour-packed and cook just like meat.

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Bags for Life

Shopping bags that are stronger and last longer help to reduce plastic waste. Check out our latest fun designs.

Bags for Life

Protecting the planet

We've made a lot of changes to tackle some of the world's biggest environmental challenges

Making products more mindfully

We're now making a lot of our products in a more environmentally responsible way

Made Mindfully

Our 4Rs plan

Our 4Rs stand for Remove, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. It's the foundation for our plan to cut packaging and plastic waste.

4Rs

Soft plastics recycling

Recycle your salad bags, crisp packets and more. Find our soft plastic recycling points in all our large stores.

Soft plastics recycling

Taking the bite out of food waste

5 years ago, we launched our Perfectly Imperfect 'wonky' fruit and vegetables range to help save food waste. Since then, customers have picked 50 million Perfectly Imperfect packs, saving 44,000 tonnes of fruit and veg that could have gone to waste.

Food waste

Supporting communities

We offer a helping hand to different groups experiencing diverse challenges

Support our Food Collection in-store today

If you can, please donate long-life items to help families facing hardship and we will provide extra support with a financial donation to our charity partners. Terms and conditions apply.

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Our charity partners

We work closely with Cancer Research UK, the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK. We also support local food and anti-poverty charities.

Charities and donations

Standing proud together

We’re proud to be a part of Pride and support LGBTQ+ charities all year round, helping make everyone feel welcome

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Food redistribution

In the UK, we donate food daily to charities and community groups through our Community Food Connection scheme, in partnership with FareShare

Food redistribution

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*Tesco will fund £5m worth of healthy food and activities to 5,000 children’s groups by July 2024. 3.2m beneficiaries, estimated over 12 months.

FareShare (Registered charity in England and Wales, charity no. 1100051) is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, supplying almost 8,500 frontline charities and community groups with food from across the food industry. Tesco will support FareShare with a £200k donation per financial year. The Trussell Trust Registered Charity in England and Wales (Registered Charity no. 1110522) and Scotland (Registered charity no. SC044246). Your donations will be going to a local food bank operated by a registered charity or charitable organisation which is part of the Trussell Trust network. Details of the local food bank charity are available on request. Tesco will support the Trussell Trust with a £1.25m donation per financial year.

**All monies raised between 11–24 September 2023 will be split equally amongst the 3 charities. Cancer Research UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666), Jersey (247) and the Isle of Man (1103). British Heart Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales (225971) and in Scotland (SC039426). The British Diabetic Association operating as Diabetes UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (215199) and in Scotland (SC039136).