Morrisons pledges further £5m to keep food banks stocked up

Morrisons Community Champions are working with local food banks to help ensure their shelves are restocked

Morrisons will set aside a further £5m of food supplies to help keep the nation's food banks stocked up this year.

Last year, the Bradford-based grocer led the charge to restock Britain's food banks, which found themselves struggling with unprecedented demand for their services.

Through Morrisons network of Community Champions, £10m of stock was delivered direct to food banks across the UK.

As the UK’s largest fresh food maker, Morrisons ran its bakery, egg and fruit & vegetable packing site for an extra hour every day to make, prepare and pack food required to restock the food banks. Over two million eggs and more than 300,000 loaves of bread were distributed through Morrisons own manufacturing sites.

Morrisons also focused on the essential products food banks were calling out. It supplied a million packets of pasta, 1.5 million litres of long life milk and over 800,000 tins of beans to those in need.

Other treats to help bring joy to families included a million Easter Eggs and 50,000 packs of McVities Victoria Biscuits through a buy one, donate one campaign in November.

Food was then distributed locally through Morrisons network of community champions, who work closely with food banks on the ground to ensure they’re getting the vital stock that they need.