Monday, 28 April 2014

Corporate Social Responsibility

The first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activity
Tesco Group help people who affecting by FLOODS in Somerset. According to a worker who worked for Tesco thirteen years Sara, the floods had an extremely severe effect on local people in some of the area. Many people’s homes were flooded, as well as farmer’s fields and town centres.
“My colleagues and I wanted to do everything we could to help. It all started with a big fundraising effort we held at our store. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of our customers, and we managed to raise over £4000 in just one week – surpassing all previous collections we have taken part in” said by Sara.  Across the area £107,000 was raised for the Somerset Flood Fund, which Tesco matched with an extra £10,000. Tesco Group not only giving money as fund but also organized an event which named Tesco ‘Big Clean Up’ to encourage their worker to help the victims in Somerset. Tesco workers donated their 5,000 hours to help clean up places that had been badly hit. After that, Tesco workers also visited the center of Taunton to collect rubbish. They collected eight bags of rubbish, which was much appreciated by local people. Tesco workers collected over twenty bags full of rubbish on Chesil Beach.
“But we felt we could do more to help the families that were worst affected, some of whom we knew had lost everything they owned” said by Sara and her colleagues. So they had an idea which is donating items to families, to replace the important things they had lost.

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The Second Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activity
Did you know? Tesco act as SANTA at some time in the past? In year 2013, Tesco organized an event on Christmas. Just like what Santa will do, workers made a list and check it, let your families decide that whether you’ve been naughty or nice!
            Not only present will be giving out from Tesco. Over the festive period Tesco expected to sell around 9 million bags of potatoes, 1.5 million turkeys, 3 million bags of parsnips, 13 million packs of mince pies,  1.4 million finest* Christmas puddings and 3.4 million packs of sprouts. And there is an event of “Tablet gifting!” as lottery game.
            In December 2013, Tesco workers transported around 8.3million cases of goods every day. Tesco team had been doing their best to deliver out all the goods before Christmas Eve. We should be appreciated because of Tesco workers does not get much of rest.

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The third Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activity
         In October 2013, Tesco Group took part in an event named “Fighting Hunger, Tackling food waste”. The United Nations World Food Day acts as a timely reminder that poverty and hunger are problems the world over, impacting millions of people each day. It also gives us an opportunity to highlight the issue of hunger on our doorstep, where 5.8 million people live in deep poverty in the UK, meaning they struggle to afford everyday essentials, like food.
          In this event, Tesco responsible to redistribute surplus food to hundreds of charities up and down the country, including homeless shelters, soup kitchens, breakfast clubs for children and women’s refuge centers. These charities offer not only a meal, but invaluable support to some of the poorest people in our society. According to Tesco worker Lindsay Boswell, Tesco redistribute surplus food which has lost its commercial outlet but is still perfectly fine to eat. This is good quality, nutritious food that is still in date but would have otherwise gone to waste. It can be considered as overproduction, damaged packaging and labelling errors. The reason why Tesco will be in charge of food is because Tesco have over 18 years of experience in food industry, they believed that Tesco will have good solutions to handle them.

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