Abergavenny shoppers are a generous bunch it seems - donating an impressive 4,023 meals to help feed local people in need during Tesco’s Summer Neighbourhood Food Collection.

The bi-annual food drive saw members of the public donate store cupboard staple items such as rice, tea, tinned meat and fish and UHT milk.

The food collected in the Abergavenny store helped contribute towards the estimated total of 2.8 million meals collected for the charities by all Tesco stores nationwide this month.

Caroline Silke , Head of community at Tesco said, “We’re over the moon with the huge number of food donations we’ve had in the store, resulting in such an amazing number of meals to give to those in need. It really demonstrates the generosity of the people of Abergavenny. Thank you for once again supporting us, and making this collection so successful!”

Now in its fifth year, the Neighbourhood Food Collection is run in partnership with Tesco, FareShare and The Trussell Trust. It is held twice a year in all Tesco stores, once in summer and once in the winter.

Tesco will financially top up donations made to the collection by 20%. For more information tesco.com/food-collection.

The Trussell Trust’s network of over 420 foodbanks provides a minimum of three days’ emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in the UK. In 2015/16, 1,109,309 three day emergency food supplies were given to people nationwide, and 415,866 of these went to children.