OVER 50,000 meal donations have been made at Aldi stores across Yorkshire to support vulnerable people over the festive period, including a number of stores in York. The supermarket paired up its stores with local charities, community groups and food banks to make the most of unsold fresh and chilled food. In North Yorkshire, over 10,000 meals were donated, including at the stores in Fulford Road and Water Lane. Some of the York charities which received some of the meal donations in York were S.H.Y Secret Helpers Yorkshire and Chapelfields Community Association. Luke Peech, managing director of corporate responsibility at Aldi UK, said: “We’re proud to support good causes in Yorkshire this festive period, helping them to provide fresh and filling meals.”
WORK has started on the demolition of a former York company headquarters to make way for a new student accommodation complex. Diggers are pulling down Shepherd Construction’s former HQ, Frederick House, situated off Fulford Road and next door to York police station. Builders will then start the construction of a 368-bed student accommodation block, which will be just a 10 minute walk across Walmgate Stray from the University of York campus. Student Roost, one of the largest student accommodation providers in the UK, has agreed a major deal to purchase the site and another in Bristol from Summix Capital and they are due to be completed in time for September 2022, under a £70 million forward-funding deal agreed with developer Watkin Jones Group.