Christmas Eve food donation from Aldi stores

The Aldi Corporate Responsibility Department are delighted to offer an opportunity to receive surplus food from your local Aldi store to support you over the busy festive period.

As our stores will shut at 4pm on Christmas Eve until the 27th of December, we will have a variety of good quality surplus food products that we wish to redistribute in support of less fortunate individuals and to prevent food going to waste.

We will have the following food product types available to collect on Christmas Eve, subject to store sell-through and stock levels:

• Fresh fruit and vegetables
• Fresh meat
• Fresh fish
• Bread and bakery products
• Other chilled products (e.g. dairy, desserts, ready meals etc.)

It is important to note that these products will have a relatively short best before / expiry life left at this stage, however all products will have at least one day remaining.

We are unfortunately unable to deliver products on a locally, so it would be essential that your organisation is able to collect. We will expect the levels of food available to vary, however estimations of around 20-30 crates will be expected from each store. If you wish to collect all products available, we would therefore recommend providing a large car or van, or being prepared to make multiple journeys. However you are more than welcome to take as much of the products offered as you can use – you are not required to take all products. We would also ask to ensure that you bring appropriate collection containers (bags, crates, boxes, etc.) as we will only have a limited number of cardboard boxes potentially available for use.

As noted above, we are asking groups to collect from stores on Christmas Eve only at between 4:30 – 5:30pm after the store has closed. Unfortunately we cannot accommodate collections outside this time.

We would be grateful if you could please let us know if you would like to take us up on this exciting opportunity by Friday 8th December so that we can brief the stores and ask them to make contact with you to make arrangements. If you are not able to take advantage of this, but can recommend a different charity group local to you that may be able to, we would be grateful if you could pass this message on to them and ask them to get in touch with us by the aforesaid deadline and via the address above.

To find out more, please contact Energy and Environment Team ALDI Stores Ltd.