Sainsbury’s stores in Ryde and Newport are to regularly donate surplus food that is still healthy, nutritious and within it use-by dates to Aspire Ryde, a community project that supports over 1000 people a week in a variety of ways.
The supermarket’s food donation scheme is aimed at charities and organisations that could really benefit from receiving surplus fresh food products that would otherwise go to waste.
The types of items which Sainsbury’s Newport and Sainsbury’s Ryde Local will be donating to Aspire, which situated on Dover Street, includes bread, dry goods, produce and used coffee grounds, which can be used for compost on site.
Aspire will be presented with food items 6-days-a-week.
Sainsbury’s Newport Store Manager, Paul Dyer 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.
“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.”
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Heath Monaghan of Aspire Ryde has said:
“We’re delighted to be receiving this kind donation from colleagues at Sainsbury’s Newport & Ryde local Isle of Wight stores who have helped to raise awareness of our cause. These items really will benefit local people suffering from food poverty. We’re now looking forward to working with the store during the rest of 2016”.
