Aldi donates 18,000 meals to Nottinghamshire charities during school summer holidays

A supermarket has donated over 18,000 meals to charities this summer.

Over the school holidays, the supermarket paired up with charities, food banks and community groups in Nottinghamshire.

Through the community giving platform Neighbourly, Aldi donated their surplus food to avoid waste and help good causes.

Since the partnership with Neighbourly started in 2019, Aldi's UK stores have donated over 25 million meals to 3,600 local causes.

"Our food donations scheme with Neighbourly operates year-round, but we know that school holidays are a particularly hard time for families, especially as many continue to experience greater hardship due to the cost-of-living crisis." said Liz Fox, corporate responsibility director at Aldi UK.

"This is why we committed to supporting even more amazing causes in Nottinghamshire over the school holidays, helping them to provide meals to those who needed them most."

Throughout the UK, about 700,000 meals were donated with hundreds of different causes benefiting from the project.

"This push in donations from Aldi was therefore essential in helping these organisations support families during this time." said Stebr Butterworth, from Neighbourly.