Swansea-based charity Street Football Wales has received a £1,000 donation thanks to Tesco’s Bags of Help Scheme. The grant to the charity, which holds football matches across Wales for the socially excluded, has gone towards providing breakfasts for the players to make sure they’re on top form for matches. The funding has allowed the organisation to increase its support to more than 300 individuals throughout Wales with access to physical activity. The organisation, which holds matches in Swansea, Cardiff, Newport…

Cardiff Tesco is encouraging people in the city to support Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life by popping to their local Tesco store to see it ‘turn pink’ this weekend (April 5th & 6th). The nationwide ‘Tesco Turns Pink’ weekend will see thousands of Tesco colleagues unite across the UK to raise vital funds to help beat cancer. Tesco colleagues across the city are set to embark on a variety of fun fundraising activities in-store, giving visitors the opportunity to…

  Tesco is encouraging people in Cardiff to support Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life by popping to their local Tesco store to see it ‘turn pink’ on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th April. The nationwide ‘Tesco Turns Pink’ weekend will see thousands of Tesco colleagues unite across the UK to raise vital funds to help beat cancer. Tesco colleagues across the Cardiff stores are set to embark on a variety of fun fundraising activities in-store over the Friday and…

A Cardiff school’s playground has been transformed thanks to a grant from Tesco’s Bags of Help initiative. Coryton Primary School received £4,000 from the supermarket’s flagship community grant scheme – which is funded by sales of carrier bags. The money has been used to install a shelter in the playground which protects children from the elements during their playtimes. It also means the children are now able to enjoy lessons outside under the shelter, offering respite, come rain or shine,…

Visitors to Cardiff’s Roath Park are being kept up to date with what’s going on at the popular amenity thanks to a £4,000 grant from Tesco’s Bags of Help Scheme. The Friends of Roath Park group, which has been supporting the park since 2011, has used funding from the supermarket scheme to put up community noticeboards around the park to help keep local residents and visitors informed about what’s on. The funding has enabled the friends to provide more promotional…

  Charities and community groups across Wales are being invited to receive free surplus food from Tesco this Easter. Across the UK the supermarket distributes a million meals a month to good causes as part of its Community Food Connection scheme, run in conjunction with food charity FareShare and powered by FoodCloud technology. Community Food Connection enables some 7,000 charities and community groups to pick up free food from Tesco each week, but some of those groups take a break…

Busy Bee Life Insurance and Tesco raise over £1,600 in community fundraising event. A total of £1,612.50 was raised by Tesco and Busy Bee Life Insurance and at a fundraising event which took place on Saturday the 9th of February at the Tesco Superstore in Barry, to help Martine to make memories. Scott Adams, Martine’s husband, was diagnosed with an incurable heart disease on the very same day he was given the all clear from Leukemia, after enduring two successful…

Tesco is marking its centenary by offering community projects across Wales the chance to bag their share of a huge £100,000 funding pot. As part of the supermarket’s anniversary celebrations, community organisations from across North Wales are being invited to share in the funding during two special Bags of Help voting rounds. Bags of Help, run in partnership with Groundwork, sees funding awarded to thousands of local community projects every year. So far in Cardiff, Bags of Help has awarded…

PEOPLE in Cardiff are being encouraged to get January off to a great start by making a date to join Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. As an added incentive, there’s 30% off entry fees* during January with the code RFL30. This year, for the first time, Cancer Research UK is inviting everyone in the area – women, men and children – to join the Race for Life. There are events for people of all ages and abilities taking place…

Thousands of meals have been provided to people in need this Christmas thanks to customer donations at Tesco stores across Cardiff. Generous customers in the area donated nearly 18,000 meals for food charities FareShare and The Trussell Trust during the Tesco Food Collection, which ran in stores from 29 November to 1 December. Tesco asked its customers to donate long-life items to help people in need as part of their usual shop, with the supermarket announcing its delight that customers…