Aviva Community Fund

Open (ongoing) Active citizenship Advice services Age discrimination Black and minority ethnic Communities Community and neighbourhood development Community development Gender equality and sexual orientation Human rights and equality Human rights and justice People with disabilities Policy, advocacy and campaigning Poverty and deprivation Racial equality Refugees and asylum seekers Social inclusion Social partnership Social welfare and poverty Un/Employed Voluntary and community infrastructure volunteering World issues Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Medium (up to £60,000) Micro (up to £1,000) Small (up to £10,000)

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Overview

About the Aviva Community Fund

Building stronger, more resilient communities across the UK: that's what they're striving towards at Aviva, and it's how they'll continue to help small charities and community causes.

They know the causes that make the biggest impact are those that are given the opportunity to test innovative ideas and explore new sustainable strategies without fear of risk. That's why the Aviva Community Fund backs the clever ideas that move communities forward and provides these amazing causes with vital support and resources.

Aviva will match each donation you receive up to £250.
- This means that if someone gives £5, they'll double it to £10. If they give £250, they'll match it, so the cause gets £500.
Organisations can receive up to £50,000 in match funding and eligible causes can apply at any time.

Project Eligibility

They want to support forward-thinking causes that are helping to build stronger communities, your project should align with one of their Aviva funding areas.

All beneficiaries of your project must be in the UK.

Funding areas:

Financial Wellbeing: helping people take control of their wellbeing by giving them the tools to be more financially independent and ready for anything
Climate Action: Promoting healthy, thriving communities by preventing, preparing for and protecting against the impacts of climate change

If your Organisation's core mission is aligned to one of these key funding areas, then it is also acceptable for your Project to be fundraising to cover your Organisation's usual operational costs.

How it works

Once applications have been submitted and approved, applicants will need to create a fundraising page on Crowdfunder that Aviva employees can browse and donate funds to.

Applicants can also showcase their projects to raise additional public donations.

There will be no fees on donations by Aviva (including match funding) but there will be fees on public donations.

General Eligibility

To apply to the Fund, project owners must:

be age 18 or older
be a UK resident
be an authorised employee, volunteer, trustee, director or officer of the organisation
have authority from the organisation to apply to the Fund, and
use a UK IP address and not use a disposable email address.

Organisations must:

be one of the following types of organisations:
- Charity*
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO);
- Community Interest Company (CIC);
- Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG); or
- Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC);
be based in the UK
have been operating for at least 12 months and have published financial data available
have an annual income of no more than £2 million (can be averaged over the last three financial years)
have a UK bank account in its own name
have a safeguarding policy (if the organisation supports children or vulnerable people)
be a living wage employer (if the organisation employs people)
have an active board of trustees or directors or management body

*Organisations set up as trusts (including charitable trusts) are not currently eligible to participate in the Fund.

Due diligence requirements

In addition to meeting the eligibility criteria, project owners need to satisfy some additional due diligence checks. They must:

upload a form of photo ID
provide details of the organisation's bank account
agree to the Aviva Community Fund terms and conditions and Crowdfunder's terms and conditions of funding.

Project owners may be asked to provide additional information to demonstrate that they, their project and/or their organisation is eligible to participate in the Aviva Community Fund.

Notes:

Aviva and Crowdfunder reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to exclude from the Fund project owners and organisations that do not meet the eligibility criteria or to reject submissions and projects that do not meet the eligibility criteria or are incomplete, incomprehensible, false or fraudulent. Aviva and Crowdfunder reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to remove project owners, organisations, submissions and projects from the Fund at any point.

For the full terms and conditions that apply to the Aviva Community Fund, please click here.

If you don't meet the eligibility criteria? They may be able to help through their volunteering programme. Recruit volunteers