With food production responsible for around a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions and at the centre of many other environmental issues, Tesco and WWF have come together to make it easier for everyone to access an affordable, healthy, and sustainable diet.
We recognise that some of the environmental issues facing the food system require innovations to unblock barriers and drive transformative progress, so as part of our partnership, we’ve launched the Tesco & WWF Sustainability Innovation Fund.
We are seeking innovators and scale-up companies capable of delivering proven environmental innovations in partnership with suppliers operating in Tesco’s supply chain. Successful applicants to the Fund will have the opportunity to pitch for funding for a demonstration project.
We are looking for late-stage innovations focused on sustainable agriculture solutions. We define a late-stage innovation as an established innovation with proven benefits – e.g. beyond scientific research and pilot testing but not yet widely adopted. Your innovation should be ready to roll-out with a Tesco supplier in a collaborative project of 12 months or less. Each project can apply to the Tesco & WWF Sustainability Innovation Fund for a contribution of up to £150,000 towards the project budget and applicants should also be willing to participate in programme communications.
Following your application, we will shortlist suitable candidates for matching with Tesco suppliers. If selected by a supplier, you will have the opportunity to jointly pitch to the Innovation Fund for funding for your project.
Could your proven innovation help make a difference?
You would like to scale-up your late-stage innovation or servivce
You have a novel product or service which has completed pilot testing
You need access to the market to improve uptake of your solution
You could run a project with a Tesco supplier to demonstrate the benefit
Click the link on this website to make an application. The application process only takes a few minutes to complete and only requires your contact details and an outline of your product or innovation. The deadline for applications is 28th February 2022.
Once we have your application, we will review it before contacting you. If your application is relevant to the programme objectives, we will invite you to connect with relevant suppliers to share further detail about your innovation and learn more about their use cases and priorities.
Suppliers will be invited to match with applicants. Matched applicants will work with their supplier partners to produce a pitch deck which summarises both the innovation and how it would fit with the requirements set out by the supplier. The goal is to demonstrate a useful collaboration approach for all.
Once prepared, matched applicants and suppliers will jointly present their collaborative pitch to the Tesco & WWF Sustainability Innovation Fund. If successful, the matched applicants may enter a collaboration project with the supplier.
