Tesco is making it easier than ever for shoppers in Oxford to give a helping hand to food banks and charities feeding people in their community.

The Tesco Food Collection is taking place in every large Tesco store from June 30 to July 2, and shoppers are being urged to donate long-life food to support local food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network and thousands of frontline charities supplied by FareShare.

Tesco will top up all food donations made during the collection with an extra 20% cash donation to support the two charities.

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To make it even easier for customers to donate, shoppers can now round up their bill at the checkout to make a small donation to the charities, and pre-filled donation bags with some of the items that are most needed will be available in selected stores.

From this week it is also easier than ever for customers who shop in Express stores to support the charities, with new permanent donation points being placed in every Tesco Express store for the first time, meaning shoppers will now be able to donate at Express stores year-round. Shoppers can also donate their Tesco Clubcard points online.

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Tesco head of community Claire de Silva said: “This collection marks 10 years of us working with the Trussell Trust and FareShare.

"During that decade our customers have been amazingly generous, donating more than 100 million meals.”

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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.

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