Tesco Stronger Starts Grant

Tesco Stronger Starts is a grant programme that provides funding to schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations supporting children and young people across the UK. The programme offers grants of up to £1,500 for causes that improve access to healthy, nutritious food. From enhancing school provision to supporting local community services, the programme welcomes applications that use healthy food to support physical and mental health of children and young people. This could include breakfast or holiday clubs, cooking or gardening initiatives, providing fruit or healthy snacks for a sports club or projects that build life skills, confidence and wellbeing. Tesco colleagues help to select the projects that will be voted for in regions across the UK, and customers are invited to vote using a blue token to select their preferred project – ensuring local communities can have their say in how funding is distributed. The programme is managed by community charity Groundwork UK, which works with greenspace scotland to support successful projects in Scotland.