Tesco are proposing to use the money raised from the government’s 5p bag charge in England to pay for a large number of local environmental improvement projects. The types of project the company expects to fund include new sport facilities, woodland walks and community gardens. Nominated projects will be whittled down to a shortlist of three in each of 428 regions, and in early 2016 Tesco customers will be able to vote both in-store and online for which of the shortlisted projects they most want to see get the go-ahead, with the winning projects announced shortly afterwards. The size of the grants available range from £8,000 to £12,000 and Tesco is working with environmental charity Groundwork to administer the scheme. I’d like your help to nominate as many projects as possible in Stratford on Avon. If you would like to nominate a potential project in your local area, then please let me know by the 25th November, by emailing nadhim.zahawi.mp@parliament.uk, and I’ll put these forward to Tesco for consideration.