Tesco and Elelmiszerbank are Civil Award winners

The Civil Award was established by the NIOK Foundation in 2016 with the aim of drawing attention to those civil initiatives that have achieved outstanding results, generated cooperation, initiated change, are particularly innovative or set a good example for other civil organizations. The jury of the 2024 Civil Award honored the application entitled “The most significant domestic cooperation in the fight against food waste” with a special award. The goal of the collaboration between the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület and Tesco is to save food that can no longer be sold in supermarkets but is still perfectly suitable for human consumption and deliver it to those in need.

Tesco and the Food Bank have been working together on daily food rescue for more than a decade. More than 80 percent of Tesco’s stores donate food to the Food Bank and its partner organizations every day. This good practice also contributed to the fact that in 2019 Tesco reached and even exceeded UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3, which is about halving food waste by 2030. The special award of the Civil Award recognized this 10 years of close cooperation and exemplary practice. In the competition, not only the jury, but also the audience found the practice of Tesco and Food Bank the best, so the food rescue program also won the audience award of the 2024 Civil Award.