Joyce checks out Tesco’s Haverfordwest food collection

Local Senedd Member Joyce Watson popped into Haverfordwest’s Tesco Extra on Thursday (1 December) to help with this year’s winter food collection.

Now in its tenth year, the campaign brings together the UK’s largest grocery retailer and food bank charities the Trussell Trust and FareShare. Collections are taking place at Tesco stores across Wales from Thursday until tomorrow.

Joyce Watson MS said:

“The big push this year is for long-life food, to enable the charities to get what is needed, where it is needed, when it is needed.

“More and more working people are relying on food handouts to get by – it’s become a scandalous feature of life in this country. With the drop in temperatures and Christmas around the corner, families are facing frightful spending decisions.

“As always, Haverfordwest shoppers have been very generous – and with Tesco topping up customer donations with a 20% cash contribution to the charities, this weekend’s collection is a fantastic way to help people in need this winter.”