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The positive impact Lidl has helped to create in communities.
The number of people indirectly helped each week by the good causes Lidl has supported
6,368,928
5,675
125,070
Money donated
£2,870,661
Volunteering (hours)
538
Non-food donated (tonnes)
2,083
Meals donated
76,336,342
Every charity and community group on our platform is assigned a primary mission type based on the main need it supports. For example, a food bank may categorise itself under social welfare.
| Category | Causes supported |
|---|---|
| Families | 2271 |
| People with disabilities | 1798 |
| Children (10-14) | 1460 |
| Location | Causes supported |
|---|---|
| London | 345 |
| Cardiff | 164 |
| Glasgow | 150 |
Here's how businesses create local impact through Neighbourly.
Through Neighbourly, Lidl has donated surplus food, money, products and volunteer time, turning business resources into meaningful community impact.
Through Neighbourly, businesses donate resources to local good causes.
Support goes directly to charities and community organisations, helping them free up time and resources to focus on what matters most.
Whether it's a hot meal, essential products, a safe place to meet or someone to talk to, support reaches people in ways that make a real difference.
Together, these contributions create real, measurable impact in local communities. That's social value in action.
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Ferndale, UK
We offer a community shop in Maerdy RCT. Households are able to obtain food items, ambient, fresh, chilled and frozen, using a points system. This ensures that everyone gets a fare share of the items available. We need surplus food items to ensure that we can continue this very needed service for our community.
What we've received
London, UK
The Dwaynamics Community Centre’s Nourishment Hub is more than a food project it is a lifeline, a warm table, and a doorway to dignity for families and individuals navigating hardship in Lambeth and the surrounding areas. Rooted in the legacy of Dwayne Simpson and guided by the leadership of Pastor Lorraine Jones Burrell MBE, the Hub embodies a simple but radical idea: when people are loved, welcomed, and well-fed, they can start to heal, stabilise, and thrive. From its earliest days, the Nourishment Hub has been a place where nourishment is holistic—body, mind, and spirit served with compassion, consistency, and community pride. The Hub was born from lived experience. After the tragic loss of her son Dwayne to knife crime, Pastor Lorraine channelled her grief into purpose, founding the Dwayne Simpson Foundation and building Dwaynamics into a beacon for youth development, family support, and community resilience. Food quickly emerged as a unifying language a way to meet urgent needs while building trust. In a borough shaped by both rich cultural heritage and deep inequalities, the costs of housing, health challenges, and the realities of poverty often collide. The Nourishment Hub responds by offering hot, nutritious meals, culturally familiar ingredients, and ready-to-heat dishes that respect the diverse communities it serves. But it also offers what many services do not: time to listen, space to be seen, and practical pathways forward. A typical session at the Nourishment Hub is alive with conversation and care. Volunteers greet guests by name. Children tuck into balanced meals while older residents are offered tea, a seat, and company. People can take away groceries that reflect choice and dignity not leftovers, but quality foods selected with families in mind. For those who are street homeless, sofa-surfing, or in temporary accommodation, the Hub provides ready-cooked meals and light-touch support that acknowledges complex realities like addiction, trauma, and poor health. The approach is trauma-informed, non-judgmental, and intentionally warm. As one guest put it, “Dwaynamics makes me feel happier and hopeful” a testament to the healing power of hospitality and consistency. Beyond the plate, the Hub functions as a bridge to wider help. Staff and trained volunteers offer gentle signposting and introductions to local services: GP registrations, diabetes and nutritional advice, welfare rights and housing guidance, safeguarding support for families, and connections to training and employment opportunities. Partner drop-ins from health teams, schools, and community policing are invited to meet residents on their terms, in a familiar, non-intimidating space. This fabric of collaboration reflects Dwaynamics’ broader mission: to reduce harm, build trust, and strengthen neighbourhood safety through everyday relationship-building. The Nourishment Hub is a cornerstone of Dwaynamics’ intergenerational model. On any given week you may see young people
What we've received
Southampton, UK
Looprun is a response division and part of an independent social enterprise. This is more than food and is part of a supportive services platform to help people get sustained in their own individual way. With up to 94% success rate and seeing once those receiving free Looprun response bags to returning to stores as shoppers with baskets full. These are the impact stories created when all come together to do good for good. Service users are signposted to Looprun mostly from referrals including professionals in social and healthcare. Looprun provides free non perishables, perishable food, toiletries, pet food, brand new clothing and gifts to people facing a temporary challenge. Whatever supermarkets, stores, and retailers can do is turned into a grateful donation to a neighbour in need. This is a response to real people in real-time. No food is banked providing a direct in and out service. We believe if the food is stored then a person in need is not getting any food, hence we provide an instant response and instant impact service. Looprun has access to professional volunteers who carry out a confidential support service to people in need. From homeless shelters, hostels, sheltered housing, care homes, soup kitchens and schools. This is a non voucher, free and confidential service. This means Looprun can reach more people in need with food donations. Anyone that receives a Looprun bag of essential food items is sustained, thus creating a loop cycle. All are invited to become part of these sustainable stories in your local community. For further information and gallery access on the impact of Looprun please visit: Website: https://looprunresponse.online/
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At Lidl GB, we're committed to playing our part in supporting the communities we serve. Helping the charitable organisations around our stores continue their vital work is how we believe we can do this. This year, we've doubled our Community Fund to £1 million, with over £500,000 now in the hands of our colleagues. For the first time, colleagues from every Lidl store and regional distribution centre across Great Britain have nominated local charities to receive funding. Chosen by the people who live and work alongside them, these are the causes making a real difference on our doorsteps, ensuring support reaches the communities that need it most.
At Lidl GB, we're committed to playing our part in supporting the communities we serve. Helping the charitable organisations around our stores continue their vital work is how we believe we can do this. This year, we've doubled our Community Fund to £1 million, with over £500,000 now in the hands of our customers. For the first time, Lidl customers across Great Britain have voted for local good causes to receive funding via the Lidl Plus app, between 24th September - 7th October 2026. Chosen by the people who live alongside them, these are the causes making a real difference on our doorsteps, ensuring support reaches the communities that need it most.
The festive season is all about sharing the magic of Christmas and bringing people together — and at Lidl, we’re delighted to continue this tradition with the return of our in-store Toy Banks in early November, in partnership with Neighbourly. Our Toy Banks give shoppers the chance to donate new and unopened toys and gifts — whether it’s a small stocking filler or something extra special. Every donation will go directly to families in your local area through our partnerships with charities, foodbanks, and community groups. And to help make an even bigger impact, we’re contributing £125,000 through the Lidl Community Fund in grants to our Toy Bank partners, supporting communities across the country this Christmas.
At Lidl we're working closely with our stores to distribute unsold surplus food to local communities. Through Neighbourly we're connected to charities, foodbanks, community cafes and soup kitchens where our surplus is being put to good use every day.
Following last year's huge success, the annual Lidl graduate volunteering day is back. This day is specially designed to raise awareness around preventing food waste and the beneficial impact of surplus food donations. It gives our graduates the unique opportunity to spend hands-on time with local donation partners, allowing them to truly understand the vital work being done within the community.
At Lidl GB we are passionate about playing our part in helping to tackle hunger in the communities we serve. Helping the charitable organisations in our communities continue their vital work is how we believe we can do this. Our Local Community Fund is now in it's fourth year, an annual £500,000 fund dedicated to supporting our community partners to help those experiencing food poverty. The fund is to be used for the purposes of supporting good causes tackling hunger in local communities; good causes connected with the Lidl surplus food program are invited to apply on a quarterly basis (in March, June, September and January).
Sharing in the magic of Christmas and bringing people together is what the festive season is all about, and at Lidl, we're proud to bring this into our stores with the return of our toy banks on 1 November, in partnership with Neighbourly.
At Lidl GB we are passionate about playing our part in helping to tackle hunger in the communities we serve. Helping the charitable organisations in our communities continue their vital work is how we believe we can do this. Our Local Community Fund is now in it's third year, an annual £500,000 fund dedicated to supporting our community partners to help those experiencing food poverty.
Christmas is all about sharing and bringing people together. To help make the magic happen, Lidl brought back their in-store toy banks, in partnership with Neighbourly, where customers made donations of unopened toys and gifts. From stocking fillers to something bigger, the toy donations from Lidl customers were provided to families through store partnerships with charities, foodbanks and community groups. In-store donation points were open until 16th December 2023. Alongside the in-store toy donations, Lidl is once again making a fund available to toy bank partners in early 2024 to say thank you for the support they provide to families in this particularly challenging time.
At Lidl GB we want to play our part in tackling hunger in the communities we serve. We believe that one of the most effective ways to do this is by further enabling the charitable organisations we work with to carry out their vital work. That’s why we’ve launched the Lidl Community Fund, an annual £500,000 fund dedicated to supporting our community partners to help those experiencing food poverty.
Lidl GB is providing £50,000 worth of £250 grants for local organisations working to tackle hygiene poverty in their communities alongside the expansion to include hygiene products in the ‘Good to Give’ initiative. Good causes connected to the Lidl Feed it Back surplus program will be invited to apply for a limited number of grants at the end of February and funds will be disbursed in March 2023. This funding is intended to be spent to helping people that are struggling financially with access to personal care products, including (but not limited to) toothpaste, body wash, shampoo, deodorant, sanitary products, nappies and shaving products.
This Festive season, Lidl has launched Lidl Bear’s Toy Bank in stores nationwide. New or unopened toys and games will be donated to local children through Lidl’s partnerships with local charities, foodbanks & community groups. By working with the network of Neighbourly charities, Lidl stores are partnered with a local good cause so that customers’ donations will directly benefit children in their local community. In-store donations are now open until 16th December. Anything from a small stocking filler or something bigger is welcome, with sought after gifts including toys, games, books, puzzles, and arts and crafts for a range of ages. Alongside this, Lidl is making £125,000 of funding available for charities participating in the Toy Bank initiative. Get involved by popping into your local Lidl to donate new and unopened toys, games, books, puzzles, and arts and crafts for a range of ages in Lidl Bear's Toy Bank.
In early 2020, 1.5 million people in the UK reported not eating for a whole day because they had no money or access to food, and requests for help from local charities and foodbanks have more than doubled. At Lidl, we want to support these local groups and help make sure no families have to go hungry in future. Working with Neighbourly, and with the help of our customers, we want to do more to help the communities we serve.