Lidl to donate money to NSPCC when shoppers buy popular branded products
LIDL is donating money to the NSPCC when customers buy from a select range of branded products in store.
The budget supermarket is giving as much as 10 per cent to the children’s charity from lunch snacks and washing powders to coincide with kids returning to school.
Hartley’s jelly pots, Robinsons’ Fruit Shoots and McVities’ Go Ahead slices are included in the range of food.
While Bold, Ariel and Fairy are part of the washing powder selection.
Lidl has been working with the NSPCC since April 2017 and has so far raised £2 million for the charity.
The full list of items included in the range is here and are available while stocks last:
For items costing 99p, a donation of 10p will be made to the charity, while products priced at £1.99 will see a 20p donation.
The biggest amount the retailer will give is 50p.
But Lidl isn't the only supermarket donating money to good causes.
Tesco has partnerships with Cancer Research UK, Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation and aims to reach £30 million for the charities.
Sainsbury's counts raising £100 million for Comic Relief and over £3 million for The Royal British Legion and PoppyScotland among its biggest achievements.
While Morrisons is partnered up with children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent, where it hopes to raise £8 million.
Iceland meanwhile, has a £1 million commitment for 2019/20 to Alzheimer’s Research UK.
In terms of Aldi, the discounter wants to raise £5 million over the next five years for Teenage Cancer Trust.
M&S gives customers the chance to donate to ten different charities, ranging from UNICEF to the WWF.
The supermarket says its raised over £29 million for Breast Cancer Now since 2001 alone.
Waitrose is celebrating 10 years of Community Matters and has donated over £30 million to over 100,000 local community causes in this time.
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