You CAN help: Donate a can to help others this Christmas

Buy an extra can of food during your weekly shop at a Co-operative Food store and support ITV Daybreak’s You CAN Help campaign.

Fronted by Gethin Jones, the ITV Daybreak campaign aims to collect as many cans of food as possible in a week. They can be donated at special drop boxes in almost 1000 participating Co-operative Food stores around the country. The collected cans will then be distributed to people in need by The Salvation Army. They will be used to help young and old people from all walks of life as part of food parcels and food for lunch clubs, soup kitchens and drop-in centres.


You CAN Help is backed by Lorraine Kelly and Aled Jones. Lorraine said: “We want to collect as many cans as possible for The Salvation Army to distribute. It would be absolutely fantastic if we could manage to get a quarter of a million cans over the week-long campaign. I really hope all our (daybreak) viewers will get involved and help!”

You CAN Help collection points will be clearly identified at the entrance of participating Co-operative Food stores and will be in place from 26th November to 2nd December. Acceptable cans include meat, fish, vegetables, soup and fruit.

To find your nearest store that is participating in You CAN Help, check out the storefinder below.

Hints and Tips

• Food can only be donated via the collection containers in selected Cooperative Food stores across the UK.
• Food can only be accepted from the time of store opening on Monday 26th November through to closing time of store on Sunday 2nd December 2012.
• All food donated must be in an unopened tin can.
• All food donated needs to be for human consumption.
• All food donated needs to be within best before or use by date.
• Only canned food and no canned drinks are accepted. However canned liquids for cooking purposes are - For example: condensed milk and coconut milk.
• No damaged cans will be accepted.
• All cans must have their own labels attached.
• All cans donated must be have been purchased in Britain and passed UK food regulations.
• All cans must be donated by persons over 18 years of age .
• All other terms and conditions are as per itv.com/terms.

To see why this is so important, watch the following video by Co-operative Member of Parliament Luciana Berger: