Tag: Neighbourly

Lidl GB And Neighbourly Accelerate Olio Partnership To Almost 200 Communities

Stuart Mitchell

Lidl GB and Neighbourly have expanded their partnership with food-sharing app, Olio, giving more shoppers the chance to collect surplus food from Lidl stores for free at the end of the day via the Olio app. The initiative is now available at around 200 Lidl stores, from Newcastle to Shepherds Bush in London, with plans to roll it out nationwide by the end of the year. When local charities can’t make late-evening collections, Olio’s volunteer ‘Food Waste Heroes’ step in to pick up surplus fresh produce, meat, and bakery items…

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Lidl GB And Neighbourly Maximise Food Sharing In Communities With New Olio Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Lidl GB has announced an evolution of its long-standing partnership with Neighbourly, introducing a new trial with the popular food-sharing app Olio to redistribute even more surplus food. This landmark collaboration significantly scales up Lidl GB’s existing efforts with social impact platform Neighbourly by integrating Olio’s network of Food Waste Heroes into its surplus food network – combining the strengths of two leading players in food redistribution for the first time. Managed by Neighbourly, the new model introduces Olio’s Food Waste Hero network as an extra layer to support the…

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Over 100 Million Meals Donated To Local Good Causes Through M&S Food And Neighbourly

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer colleagues work closely with Neighbourly charity partners to redistribute surplus food from store, supporting over 4.7 million individuals. Over 3,000 local charities and community organisations across the UK provide M&S meal donations to support the community, including families in need, young people, and those with disabilities. Around 98% of M&S stores support a local good cause each week, with many stores partnering with at least two charities or community organisations. For example, at M&S’ Clapham Junction store surplus food is donated to Ace of Clubs, a day…

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M&S Food donates over 70 million meals to local good causes through Neighbourly

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has announced it has donated 70 million meals to local charities with long-standing food redistribution partner Neighbourly. Since the launch of the surplus partnership in 2015, M&S have been working with Neighbourly to redistribute surplus food from store, which is too good to waste, to more than 3,000 local charities and community organisations. To date, the partnership has supported over 4.5 million individuals, with meal donations supporting families in need, young people and those with disabilities. Designed to tackle food waste in M&S’ stores, the partnership with…

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Getir reaches one million meal donations

Stuart Mitchell

Getir, the pioneer of ultrafast grocery delivery, has recently reached a milestone of over one million donated meals from its gstores to local good causes through the Neighbourly platform.  The partnership, which has been running for a year, has now seen over 420,000 tonnes of food donated to over 330 good causes, like St Mungo’s Haringey Recovery Service in London, Wycombe Food Hub and Betel Birmingham. By redistributing this food, Getir has saved 1,520 tonnes of CO2 and made a total financial impact of over £1.8M to local communities. The…

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