The supermarket has teamed up with Groundwork on its Bags of Help initiative, which see grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – being awarded to environmental and greenspace projects.
Three groups in each of Tesco’s 416 regions have been shortlisted to receive the cash award.
And this month shoppers are being invited to head along to Tesco stores to vote for who they think should take away the top grant. The Tesco stores taking part in our area are: Tesco Express on Appenine Way, Tesco Store on Vimy Road and Tesco Express in Linslade.
Beaudesert is one of the groups on the shortlist for our local area.
We’re going to be spending the grant on the improvement and renewal of our outdoor activity trail. These changes will encourage children to take part in activities at lunch times and playtimes, as well as during PE Lessons. By being more active it will promote a healthier lifestyle change, but also improve on the children’s wellbeing by giving them the confidence in taking part in activities they may find challenging.
Voting will soon open in stores. Customers can now vote between 31st October-13th November.
They can cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop.
This is the second round of the initiative: the first round saw approximately eight million shoppers vote in stores up and down the country earlier this year.
Lindsey Crompton, Head of Community at Tesco, said: “The first round of the Bags of Help initiative was a fantastic success.
“In total 1,170 community groups were awarded £8,000, £10,000 or £12,000 – that’s a massive £11.7 million being invested into local projects.
“We are already seeing some great results from groups transforming their own environmental and greenspace areas.
“We are absolutely delighted to open the voting for round two. There are some fantastic projects on the shortlists and we can’t wait to see them come to life in hundreds of communities.”
Groundwork’s national Chief Executive, Graham Duxbury, said: “Bags of Help is giving our communities both the funding and the support to create better, healthier and greener places for everyone to enjoy.
“We’ve been thrilled to see the diversity of projects that have applied for funding, ranging from outdoor classrooms, sports facilities, community gardens, play areas and everything in between.
“They’re all fantastic projects that make a real difference in our neighbourhoods.
“We’re looking forward to learning the results of the customer vote and then supporting each group to bring their project to life.”
Children born between 01/09/2012 and 31/08/2013 can start school in September 2017, and the admissions process has already begun! For details of the process, and how to find out about joining Beaudesert School, see ourSending your child here” page.
We’re really pleased that our After-School club is now being run for us by “The Future Games”, a local company who provide PE coaching and a fantastic variety of traditional and non traditional sports clubs for schools in Leighton Buzzard. Starting after half-term in Spring 2016, all programmes and booking arrangements will be handled by them trough their own website. There are changes to the hours that the club is open, with later finishes most evenings. For more details, please <Click Here> to go to the Future Games website.
Beaudesert Lower School
Appenine Way, Leighton Buzzard
Beds, LU7 3DX
01525 373019
Head Teacher: Mrs V Pearce
Office Manager: Miss C Brunton
