More people than ever are relying on food banks to get by.

This is why kmfm has teamed up with UK Harvest to collect as many tonnes of tins as possible by August 11, with the help of listeners and readers at home.

The team said: “We are ready to help as many people as possible during this challenging economic time and we will be using our radio shows, socials and friends of kmfm. We have to deliver big!”

With one tonne equating to roughly 2,400 420g tins of beans or similar foods, the team will see how many tonnes they can collect and distribute in the six week time frame.

To help, you can buy tins of food via a supermarket or online store and arrange for them to be delivered to the kmfm studios in Medway House on the Medway City Estate.

For more information including the delivery address, you can click here to visit the kmfm website.

The deliveries must be between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday to ensure a member of the team is able to accept and store the tins properly.

All food will be kept in an air-conditioned room and handed over to the UK Harvest team to distribute.

You can also buy and deliver the tins of food yourself during office hours, where you can come and meet the team.

Alternatively, you can donate via the Just Giving page which you can find by clicking here.

At the end of the six weeks, the funds will be used to purchase as many tins of food as possible before having them delivered to UK Harvest.

Sarah Morrison, in charge of partnerships at food rescue charity UK Harvest said: “Tonnes of Tins is supporting that effort of getting food to people that need it by giving really nice, good quality tins of food that will last for a while.

“It literally is any collection of tins, we are grateful for anything. As long as it’s in a tin, we will accept it.”

The charity works across the south of England to rescue any surplus food from farmers, producers, distributors and wholesalers to collect excess good quality food and redistribute it to a network of charities and community food hubs.

For more information about the charity, you can click here to visit their website.

Sarah said: “We’ve seen demand for our food go through the roof. Our community food hubs particularly have seen the numbers increase week on week.

“Quite often at the summer there is a real hunger gap. Kids that are on free school meals have had meals at school right up until the end of term and this is a real gap.

“Food is such a key part, it’s critical to keeping everyone’s energy going. We can never underestimate the importance of food.

“Just by giving one tin everyone is really playing their part.”