“Winchester supermarket gives back to local charity”

Winchester supermarket gives back to local charity

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 12:07 AM PST

Winchester supermarket gives back to local charity

7:50am Sunday 20th February 2011

A Winchester Sainsbury's is giving back to the community by donating healthy food to charity.

The Badger Farm store is giving Winchester Churches Nightshelter some of its surplus of fresh food still within its use-by date.

Employees have also collected blankets and items of clothing for the Nightshelter, with three large bags of recently handed over to Michele Price, the Manager of the shelter and Ali McKay, the Catering Co-ordinator. Richard Morris, store manager, said: "We hate wasting food and really believe that old saying "Waste not; want not" We are really happy that local charities, within our community can benefit from our food donations scheme."

Gary Bruce, community affairs manager for the Sainsbury's store, said: "There are hundreds of hungry mouths to feed in your local community and by donating food to charities and organisations we are saving thousands of tonnes of food needlessly going to landfill.

"We really want to drill into the local community a lot more and get more local charities, animal sanctuaries and even Zoos involved in our food donations scheme."

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