Four charities each receive €500 donations from Aldi’s Westmeath Store Staff

€79,500 to be donated to local charities through Aldi’s 2021 Community Grants Programme

Four Westmeath charities and community organisations are the latest beneficiaries of the Aldi Community Grants programme, and each receives a €500 grant from the Aldi teams in Westmeath.

The grants were presented to Westmeath SPCA, Midlands Simon Community, My Lovely Horse Rescue, and TEAM (Temporary Emergency Accommodation Midlands).

Aldi’s Community Grants programme helps fund local charities and community organisations that contribute vital work and services in their communities. Each local charity supported is chosen by Aldi employees, enabling them to help the good causes they are passionate about.

The Community Grants programme has supported 850 donations to local charities to date. By the end of the year, the programme will have donated some €450,000 since its inception in 2016.

John Curtin, group buying director, Aldi Ireland, said: “We are proud to continue supporting local charities across the country through the Aldi Community Grants programme and we’re pleased to see the impact of our donation in Westmeath.

“The Community Grants programme is one example of how Aldi is committed to investing and partnering with communities and charities across Ireland and we look forward to continuing this engagement into 2022.”

Aldi has four stores in Westmeath. It partners with a variety of Irish food and drink producers across Westmeath and spent €850m with its Westmeath suppliers in 2020. To date, Aldi has donated a total of €2.9m worth of meals to FoodCloud as well as €400,000 (raised from donated Aldi stock sold in-store, on-pack donations, voucher donations, partnership support and staff/customer donations) to Barnardos since partnering in November 2020.