The move follows through a farm-to-fork commitment by Tesco to tackle food waste from its suppliers, through its stores, and customers’ homes.

The nationwide scheme – Community Food Connection with FareShare FoodCloud – is being launched in fifteen cities and regions across the UK including Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton and Portsmouth. In the coming months the initiative will be rolled out to Leeds, Leicester, Kent and the West Midlands. Tesco has said it will reach over 800 of its large Tesco stores by the end of 2016, with all stores covered by the end of 2017.

Community Food Connection is powered by FareShare FoodCloud, an open platform that helps store colleagues and charities work together seamlessly.

Tesco also believes that once fully developed, other retailers could adopt FareShare FoodCloud to create an industry standard platform to make a difference to local charities and communities.

For more information, visit: www.tescoplc.com