Superstore serves surplus food gifts

Local Aldi helps people in need over Christmas

- EXPRESS REPORTER

Aldi helped deliver 8646 meals to people in Renfrewshire over the Christmas and New Year period by donating surplus food from its stores.

The UK's fourth-largest supermarket teamed up with local good causes across Renfrewshire - including Paisley's Adonai Bible Church and Lochwinnoch Community Larder - to donate a wide range of fresh and chilled foods from its stores after they closed early on both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

Neighbourly, the community giving platform that partners with Aldi, found that charitable organisations faced increasing pressure over the winter period, with four in five charities saying demand for their services had risen over the past six months.