At Tesco, community is key to our purpose. We recognise that young people are the future of our communities, which is why our grants are focused on supporting children and young people, ranging from improving school facilities to providing vital services in the local community.
By helping children thrive in their early years, we can ensure they build a solid foundation for life. We believe this will help make communities stronger too.
Tesco Stronger Starts is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations that support children and young people.
Examples of eligible applications include:
- Supporting a local youth sports club to purchase equipment
- Contributing towards costs of a summer play scheme
- Helping young people develop skills and employment prospects
- A project that supports a uniform clothes bank
- Mother and toddler groups
- Funding towards a youth club
- Project that supports a youth choir
- Project that supports a children’s hospice
- Emotional and mental health support for children
- Buying equipment for outdoor or indoor activities
- Schools developing a food growing area
- Voluntary organisations working with families to run a food bank
- Addressing holiday hunger amongst children outside of school time
- Healthy eating projects that support families to cook healthy meals on a budget
- Brownie or Scout groups needing funding for new play equipment or activities
Tesco colleagues in each store will help select those needing a little help in your local area and when our customers are given a blue token, in any of our Tesco stores at the checkout, they can vote for their favourite children’s and young people’s group to receive a grant.
Community charity Groundwork manages this website and administers the funding across the UK. Groundwork is working with greenspace scotland to support successful projects in Scotland.
Nominate and support a local project that matters to you
We welcome nominations from Tesco customers and colleagues, you can nominate projects for a Tesco Stronger Start grant and vote in-store for shortlisted projects. Help us fund the projects that really matter to you.
See how the funding helps
This breakfast club aims to reduce the stress of the morning routine for families and children, offering them a healthy breakfast before school starts.
Our Legacy
Tesco community grants have supported thousands of community projects since 2016.
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Latest news
NEWS: Tesco Stronger Starts £5m programme open for applications
03 July 2023
Tesco is introducing a £5m grant programme, in partnership with Groundwork UK, to give children across the UK a stronger start in life.
NEWS: Tesco announces £5m grant programme to boost school funds
03 March 2023
Thousands of school children across the UK will benefit from a new grant programme launching this summer which will provide £5 million in grants to help give them a healthier, more active, stronger start in life.
NEWS: New report highlights £100m impact made in UK communities
01 March 2023
Since it began, Tesco has awarded £101,881,339 in funding to 50,880 community projects. The grant awards were decided by 738,402,011 votes cast by Tesco customers in stores across the UK using their iconic blue tokens.