LETTER: Donations helped to raise £7.14m

I would like to extend a warm thank you to Tesco colleagues and customers from Lincolnshire for their dedicated efforts to raise funds for Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to date.

Since the three-year National Charity Partnership between the two charities and Tesco launched in January 2015, customer donations, along with store colleagues’ fundraising, have contributed £7.14m to the £10m raised for the partnership to date.

This includes £614,000 raised by customers and colleagues at Tesco stores in Lincolnshire.

Thanks to the tireless fundraising efforts of Tesco colleagues and customers the Partnership will bring free healthy food and physical activity projects to Nottingham and Sandwell throughout 2016 and 2017.

Already the National Charity Partnership has launched its “Let’s Do This” campaign, which will include projects in Nottingham and Sandwell that aim to encourage people to get active and eat well to help to reduce the risk of developing both heart and circulatory disease and Type 2 diabetes.

People living with Type 2 diabetes are at a higher risk of developing heart and circulatory disease. With currently millions of people in England at increased risk of developing both conditions, it is hoped that projects like Let’s Do

This will help reduce this number.

The ongoing commitment shown by Tesco colleagues in the Lincolnshire to fundraise for this cause is truly inspiring.

I am also hugely grateful to Tesco customers who have shown their support at in-store events and would encourage them to continue to do so.

The next major fundraiser for the Partnership, Tesco2016, a football inspired event, will take place in stores nationwide from June 3-5.

Michael Clarke
fundraising manager for the National Charity Partnership