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MY LOVELY HORSE RESCUE RECIVES €500 DONATION FROM ALDI’S ROSCOMMON STORE STAFF

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

A local Roscommon charity, My Lovely Horse Rescue, has become the latest beneficiary of Aldi’s Community Grants programme, receiving a €500 grant from Aldi’s Clooneybeirne store team in County Roscommon.

Aldi’s Community Grants programme helps fund local charities and community organisations that contribute vital work and services in their local communities. Each local charity supported is chosen by Aldi employees, enabling them to help the good, local 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 over €450,000 since its inception in 2016.

Commenting, 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 the local communities for County Roscommon.

The Community Grants programme is one example of how Aldi is committed to investing and partnering with local communities and charities across Ireland and we look forward to continuing this engagement into 2022.” Operating one store in County Roscommon, Aldi is proudly involved in the local community. Aldi partners with a variety of Irish food and drink producers across Co. Roscommon and spent over €125,000 with its Roscommon 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.