Tesco customers in Wick and Thurso provide bags of help

Tesco customers in Wick and Thurso have helped three groups through the Bags of Help Centenary Grants scheme.

The retailer marked its centenary year with two special Bags of Help funding rounds, with £100,000 up for grabs in north-east Scotland.

The winners of the second round are Alzheimer Scotland, which has been awarded £25,000, Keiran’s Legacy, which gains £15,000, and Young Enterprise Scotland, which receives £10,000.

The winners of the first round, again voted for by Caithness customers, were CLAN Cancer Support, Maggie’s and Cardiac Risk in the Young.

Bags of Help, run in partnership with Greenspace Scotland, sees funding awarded to thousands of community projects every year. So far in Scotland, Bags of Help has awarded £10,503,235 to 3557 local projects.

Keith Jackson, Tesco Bags of Help manager, said: “Congratulations to the recipients of our Bags of Help Centenary Grants. They’re all worthy winners and we hope this funding helps them continue their important work in our communities.

“The centenary grants are a huge part of our celebration of a century of delivering great value for our customers. And Bags of Help applications have opened again for 2020, as we aim to support more groups and organisations helping to make a difference across Britain this year.”

Bags of Help grants are funded from money raised by the sale of Tesco's 10p carrier bags and customers vote in-store using tokens handed out at checkouts. Local organisations can apply to take part and three groups are awarded grant of £2000, £1000 or £500 every three months.

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