A project to provide healthy breakfasts for youngsters at school has been given a boost.

Sainsbury’s at Shorehead in Huddersfield has donated surplus food to the Huddersfeld Town charity, Town Foundation.

Items donated include fresh bread for the foundation’s Early Kick-Off breakfast club scheme.

The food donation scheme means surplus food that would otherwise go to waste – but is still healthy, nutritious and within its use-by dates – is given to charities and organisations that can benefit from it.

Phil Thompson, store manager at Shorehead, said: “We hate wasting food and really believe in the old saying ‘waste not; want not’. We are really happy that local charities within our community can benefit from our food donations scheme.”

Nationally, Sainsbury’s works with the organisation FareShare, which distributes surplus food to local charities and projects. Sainsbury’s has been working with FareShare since 1994.

Andy White, community affairs manager for Sainsbury’s, said: “There are hundreds of hungry mouths to feed in your local community and by donating food to charities and organisations we are saving thousands of tonnes of food needlessly going to landfill.”

Colleagues at the store chose the Town Foundation to be their new food donation partner in October. The charity will now benefit from regular donations of surplus food from the store.

Mandy Taylor, of the Town Foundation, said: “We’re delighted to be receiving this kind donation from colleagues at Sainsbury’s Shorehead who have helped to raise awareness of our cause.

“These items really will benefit local youngsters at our Early Kick-Off breakfast clubs. We’re now looking forward to working with the store and forging a strong and beneficial relationship.”