TESCO has launched a new permanent food collection point at its Bordon branch.

Forming part of Tesco’s partnership with charities FareShare and The Trussell Trust, collection points are based at stores nationwide, including Bordon, allowing customers to donate store cupboard essentials to people in need all year round, with Tesco topping up all donations financially by 20 per cent.

The addition of these new points will increase the number of permanent food-collection points to 600 across the country.

Tesco estimates that, nationally, adding these 100 extra points will mean that around 400,000 extra meals will be provided to people in need this year.

In 2015, collection points provided four-and-a-half million meals to those in need.

Rachel Finn, head of community food programmes at Tesco, said: “We’re proud to be increasing the number of permanent food-collection points in Tesco stores by 100, taking us into over 600 communities across the UK including Bordon.

“We know our customers in Bordon want to donate food on a regular basis and the steady supply of food year round is vital to our partner charities.

“Since 2012 we have helped to provide more than 30million meals for FareShare and The Trussell Trust.”