Comfort and Joy: Tesco stores across the area support Christmas campaign by housing festive postboxes for customers

SUPERMARKETS are spreading festive feeling in the community by hosting charity postboxes for voucher donations.
Belinda Dickins
By Belinda Dickins
Published 2nd Dec 2020, 12:21 GMT
Tesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Tanya Hatcher from the Fratton Park store with their postboxTesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Tanya Hatcher from the Fratton Park store with their postbox
Tesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Tanya Hatcher from the Fratton Park store with their postbox

Four Tesco stores across the area have joined the Comfort and Joy campaign, backed by The News, which will see thousands of pounds worth of gift vouchers donated in the run-up to Christmas.

Festive postboxes have appeared in Tesco stores in Havant, Fratton, Gosport and Portsmouth’s Crasswell Street, for customers to have an easy way to drop off their donations.

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Tara Bellinger, community champion at Fratton Park Tesco Extra, said: ‘I would like to say for myself and on behalf of all of my colleagues that we are delighted to be a part of the Comfort and Joy campaign and look forward to supporting families in need of a bit of cheer this Christmas, especially given all that has happened and is still continuing.’

Tesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Store manager Nigel Perman and community champion Jade Diamond from the Gosport Tesco storeTesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Store manager Nigel Perman and community champion Jade Diamond from the Gosport Tesco store
Tesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Store manager Nigel Perman and community champion Jade Diamond from the Gosport Tesco store
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As well as the voucher scheme, this year the charity campaign is being extended to encourage people to reach out to neighbours who might be lonely over the festive period and share a gift, card or kind word.

Jade Diamond, from Tesco in Grange Road, Gosport, said: ‘Here at Tesco in Alver Village we are keen to always get stuck in and involved with the community and local charities. Being the community champion I can fully embrace this!

‘During these times of isolation it is so important to us that we can reach out and support each other within the local area.’

Tesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Colleagues at the Crasswell Street, Portsmouth, storeTesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Colleagues at the Crasswell Street, Portsmouth, store
Tesco stores are supporting this year's Comfort and Joy campaign buy housing postboxes for customers to place vouchers into. Pictured: Colleagues at the Crasswell Street, Portsmouth, store

SEE ALSO: Donations flood in for Comfort and Joy campaign from businesses across Portsmouth

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To donate a voucher at a participating Tesco supermarket, simply buy a Christmas card and write a message, without including your name and address, and purchase a gift voucher of £5 to put inside the card.

Do not seal the envelope, and place the Christmas card into one of the festive postboxes in the area.

If these stores are not near you, you can also send a gift card, cash or cheque payable to St Mary’s Church in the post to St Mary’s Vicarage, Fratton Road, Portsmouth, PO1 5PA or hand in at St Mary’s Church any morning between 9am and midday.

The deadline for receiving donations on December 18, after which time the donations will be distributed to the good causes.

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