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Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme,
\nwhich sees grants of up to \u00a34,000, \u00a32,000 and \u00a31,000 \u2013 all raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores \u2013 being awarded to local community projects.<\/p>\n
Bags of Help<\/a> offers community groups and projects across the UK a share of Our project will focus on installing bee friendly Warre hives in north birmingham allotments as community managed hives. These special types of hive allow for minimal bee disruption and maintenance allowing them to do their thing while still producing honey and wax for the community allotment they are installed in. <\/p>\n We will help the local bee population, pollinate some allotment produce, produce local honey and wax and teach volunteers how to manage these hives for themselves and look after their bees.<\/p>\n If you think this sounds like a good idea, remember to vote for us in Tesco stores throughout November and December!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of up to \u00a34,000, \u00a32,000 and \u00a31,000 \u2013 all raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores \u2013 being awarded to local community projects. Bags of Help offers community groups and projects across the UK a share of revenue generated from … Continue reading Tesco Bags of Help #BagsofHelp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,169],"tags":[237,201,235,236],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news","tag-bagsofhelp","tag-bees","tag-funding","tag-tesco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nrevenue generated from carrier bag sales in Tesco store. The public will now vote in store during November and December on who should receive the awards!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bags-for-help-j-p-e-g-210x300.jpg\")
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