Wokingham Community Champion

Louise Jedras cares passionately about Wokingham, helping to donate food and thousands of pounds’ worth of grants to the community.

For the past five years Louise has been the Community Champion at Tesco’s Finchampstead Road Superstore, where she is one of the links between the store and residents.

She helps to deliver a range of Tesco programmes to benefit local people, including donating surplus food to local groups through the Community Food Connection scheme and supporting local projects through the Tesco Community Grants scheme.

The grant scheme enables people to nominate good causes in and around Wokingham that they would like to see benefit from grants of up to £1,500.

In recent years thousands of pounds have been handed out to Wokingham’s registered charities and not-for-profit organisations.

Louise said: “I love helping the Wokingham community and supporting the amazing groups that make this such a fantastic place to live.

“This is a role I’m really passionate about. I’m always looking to assist local projects and groups by supporting them in applying for Tesco’s Community Grants scheme, helping them to run events or by donating Tesco products such as refreshments for events or prizes for raffles.

“I’d urge anyone wanting to know more about the sort of groups, events and projects we support to look at our Community Board near the checkouts in our store.

“Any good causes with something going on that they think I’d be able to help with, please do get in touch. I’ll always