Youmanity bags £1K from Tesco’s community grant scheme

Youmanity is delighted to announce it has bagged £1K from Tesco’s Bags of Help community grant scheme.

Bags of Help is run in partnership with community charity Groundwork, and sees grants awarded to thousands of local community projects every year. Since launching in 2015, Bags of Help has provided more than £68 million to almost 30,000 local community projects across England.

Tesco colleagues have come together virtually up and down the country to vote and it can now be revealed Youmanity has been awarded £1K! Work will now continue to complete the Friend-Ship project.

“ We are grateful to Tesco’s Bags of Help for recognising the importance of the Friend-Ship project. Friendship is the only vaccine against social isolation,” Angelo Iudice, Chair of Youmanity.

Claire de Silva, Tesco’s Head of Community, said: “Bags of Help contributes funds to community projects up and down the country and whilst our customers have not been able to vote in this round, we’ve been delighted by the number of colleagues who have come together to choose projects in their local areas. In what has been an extremely tough year, we’re looking forward to seeing these projects providing support for their communities brought to life."

Funding is available to community groups and charities looking to fund local projects that bring benefits to communities. To find out more visit www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp.