{"id":427879,"date":"2025-09-16T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427879\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:25:12","slug":"aldi-donates-over-43000-meals-to-local-charities-over-summer-the-nen-north-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427879\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldi donates over 43,000 meals to local charities over summer \u2013 The NEN \u2013 North Edinburgh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Neighbourly-Aldi-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Neighbourly-Aldi-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213077\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Aldi stores in Edinburgh and The Lothians donated over 43,000 meals to families in need throughout the recent summer holidays.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">All Edinburgh and Lothian stores aided local charities and foodbanks during the period of increased demand by redistributing surplus food through community giving platform Neighbourly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The UK\u2019s fourth largest supermarket has worked with Neighbourly since 2019 and has already donated more than 8.8 million meals so far this year to those in need nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Luke Emery, National Sustainability Director at Aldi UK, said:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c<strong>We are proud to continue supporting incredible causes across the country this summer, helping to provide fresh, wholesome food to those who need it most.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSchool holidays can be a challenging time for many families, and this summer we\u2019re continuing our efforts to provide support where we can through our partnership with Neighbourly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Steve Butterworth, CEO of Neighbourly, added:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u201cSummer holidays represent one of the busiest times of the year for charities and food banks, and this year was no different.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAldi\u2019s generous donations played a key role in helping support families, and our partnership continues to make a meaningful difference to those who need it most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shoppers can also donate food to local charities, food banks and community groups via the community donation points in Aldi stores nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Britain\u2019s fourth largest supermarket also works with Company Shop, the UK\u2019s leading redistributor of surplus food and household products, to redistribute surplus food from its Regional Distribution Centres.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aldi stores in Edinburgh and The Lothians donated over 43,000 meals to families in need throughout the recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-427879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}