Supporting your local community
At Lidl, we’re committed to making good food accessible to everyone. From cupboard staples to fridge essentials, we are providing our customers with an affordable, high quality and well-balanced range of foods. Equally, we know that achieving a nutritionally varied diet can be most difficult for people reliant on food banks. So we want to make a difference. We have made it easier for you to donate vital food and hygiene products to local good causes.
Look out for the 'Donate Me' label
Throughout our stores, you'll see 'Donate me' labels that highlight the 30 nutritionally varied, long-life food items reflecting the NHS Eatwell Plate. It means shoppers can easily identify priority products that will help people accessing food banks achieve a more balanced diet. These can be dropped off at our in-store donation points past the checkouts, to be collected by local charities.
We’re proud to have developed this project in consultation with Neighbourly, a platform that connects surplus food with local good causes. This was after 87% ** of charities reported needing a greater variety of food types to be donated to help the people they support have a healthier, more balanced diet.
To help tackle hygiene poverty, in 2023 we added 10 hygiene products to this project's signage so shoppers can spot the items charities need most – from toothpaste to sanitary products.
Good to Give Products
**This research was conducted by Neighbourly in March 2021, with 1,126 Local Good Causes in the UK and Ireland responding. It followed a July 2020 survey by Neighbourly revealing the most critically-needed food items in the face of rising demand for food banks, the results of which are reflected in the full list of donatable items.