Apply online today for a local cause you love
The Aviva Broker Community Fund is now open for entries, offering you the opportunity to secure funding for local charities and good causes that matter most in your area.
And because we understand that building stronger and more resilient communities takes collaboration, we’re here to help you make an even bigger difference, together.
With entries open online until 31 October, now is the time to get behind a local cause and apply for an award of £5,000, £10,000 or £20,000 from the Aviva Broker Community Fund 2024.
View the entry eligibility & T&C’s here
2024 Broker entry guide
Take a look at the broker entry guide to see which causes you can put forward, tips for creating a great entry, key programme information and how to get further support.
Key information
Which causes can you enter?
You can support any local causes making a difference on a local level under one of the two themes:
- 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.
Simply tell us about the project, why you support them, how much funding you’re applying for and the difference the funding could make.
Creating a great entry
Tell us why you and your business are passionate about the causes you’re trying to gain funding for and how that funding will help your community. This year the judges will be looking to understand the ways projects are supporting the community to be more resilient. Read our broker guide to find out how to create a great entry.
What funding is available?
Apply to win one of 28 awards:
- 3 awards of £20,000
- 10 awards of £10,000
- 15 awards of £5,000
Plus, new for this year, all projects will have the opportunity to secure additional funding by Crowdfunding and accessing match funding from Aviva up to £50,000*.
What are the key dates?
- 9 September – 31 October: Entry open for broker submissions
- 18 November: Finalists will be notified and required to complete a simple due diligence form
- 12 March 2025: Winners will be announced and awarded at the broker finale event in London
Fantastic projects, found by brokers, funded by Aviva
Transcript for video Community Fund Launch 2024
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Transcript for video Schofield Insurance & Leeds Baby Bank
Ellie Brown
Leeds Baby Bank exists to support families in Leeds who are living in poverty. More than one in three children in Leeds lives in poverty which is higher than the national average. We help people from a diverse range of backgrounds. Everybody who we support is living in poverty, but people are experiencing many different issues including we support refugees and Asylum Seekers families affected by domestic violence and rape and many other issues as well. We work on a referral process. We call the family find out exactly what they need. And we list all the items and then one of our lovely volunteers will go and pick those items.
At Leeds Baby Bank we're all about having pre-loved items donated which we then take and give back out to families who are in desperate need. So we like to think we do our bit for recycling in the city and the people of Leeds do as well and making sure yeah their items are not ending up in landfill, they make sure they're puts a good use and go to a good home.
Amanda Shaw
We chose to support Leeds Baby Bank because it's a obviously a charity that's local to where we are actually Let's let's get behind them and get some money for them. When we found out we'd won £10,000 pounds we were absolutely over the moon and we did it on a team's meeting. And the first thing I did was immediately try and get hold of Leeds Baby Bank to tell them the good news. Everyone was so excited.
Ellie Brown
As the cost of living crisis deepens our charity is really seeing the effects of that on people in Leeds. So support from companies like Schofield Insurance is really important to us because that helps us buy the things we need and keep the service running. £10,000 pounds makes a massive difference to a charity like ours. We're a very lean charity and we operate on as low cost as possible. It means we can reduce our waiting list, our families waiting for support and help more people in the city. So yeah, it meant the world to us.
Amanda Shaw
We share our support for Leeds Baby Bank with our clients and obviously other members of the community mainly through social media. I would definitely encourage other businesses to work with local causes. It's such a little effort on on our part to actually get these forms filled in, a few minutes of your time, but it makes such a big difference to local charities.
Transcript for video Stanmore Insurance Brokers & Hollins Conservation Group
Linda Bartley
I've been involved in the conservation group for a few years now found out that the Stanmore are involved in the local community and I'm also involved in the local community where I live and I thought it was a good opportunity to bring everything together.
Ian Bartley
The group exists to make Hollins village and and the local area better place to live
John Sheppard
We've tried to support the local community variety of ways such as little picking, planting trees shrubs flowers etc cutting back on dead growth, just developing the area as naturally as possible and also, we like to try and back habitats for the local wildlife.
Linda Bartley
The go wild is annual and it brings all the community together adults, children, the grandparents friends family. It's just an all-out event, a really enjoyable day.
Ian Bartley
It gives everybody the opportunity to to learn about the area that they live in and what's available to them and what they can get involved with.
Linda Bartley
We've not had Go Wild for a couple of years with the pandemic and wanted to have an all-out celebration really. So I got an email at Stanmore Insurance Brokers explaining what it was all about and took the opportunity to apply. I was so excited. It was really good to have won considering. I've not been at Stanmore for very long so I jumped up and ran in to tell my boss and then ran in to tell my director Jackie.
Ian Bartley
It's fantastic actually to get support from any any local business and all the local businesses, like Stanmore's do get involved to help us where they can.
John Sheppard
It is a massive benefit for us to win such a large among because there are things like wood for the development of the the path through the conservation area that need replacing and that all costs and of course different tools for different things.
Ian Bartley
It just means that the pressure to fund events like Go Wild day and to buy wood for our path repairs, that pressure is taken off which means that we can then concentrate on doing what we love to do.
Linda Bartley
We always tell our clients. Let them know what we're up to and keep them up to date. We've got a page on our website and we also send an email out to our customers. So we'll let them know about the the award then. And we also actually got some local press and the Bury Times, Bolton Evening News, few other papers as well to promote this the conservation group and also the award that we'd won.
It's great to get involved in something in your local community. Definitely.
Transcript for video Prescott Jones & South Riverside Community Development Centre
Paul Gardner
I'm Paul Gardner and I'm Sales and Marketing director of Prescott Jones Insurance Brokers. Prescott Jones is a 30 year old, what we call a Community Broker, so we've been supporting our communities who've looked after us so well for the 30 years.
I came across the charity almost by accident on social media. I did a bit of research and was shocked, the biggest item that stuck out was I was reading that the average mortality rate for this area is 12 years younger than in richer parts of Cardiff and our office is literally half a mile away. And we're one of those richer areas. I guess one of the other things that stood out was the diverse nature of the community. I thought I knew the area pretty well, but some of the figures that were coming out, 51% minority ethic community in this area was surprising, with 35 ethnic groups. So the challenges of the area are quite immense and quite different to other parts of Cardiff.
Jen Abel
I'm Jen Abel. I'm Director of South Riverside Community Development Center, I've had the privilege of working here for almost a year now. What we do here and what's so fantastic about South Riverside Community Development Center is we actually don't try to help one particular protected characteristic. We're actually for everybody so anybody can access the pantry, anybody can walk into our young children and parents program. Anybody can come and access our youth work programs. And we do see amazing different groups of society.
Grant Cockerill
Hi, I'm Grant and I'm the coordinator of the pantry. One of the things we do in our publicity is to focus on the waste reduction aspect. We're trying to develop this whole center into waste reduction energy reduction.
Jen Abel
So part of the funding from the Aviva Broker Community Fund has really helped to fund an important part of the life of the pantry, so namely volunteer training. When we go inside now, you'll see all of the certificates in food and safety hygiene that really help us keep us safely operational but also for the people that have those certificates allows them to then have qualifications to put on their CV's when they go for their other jobs as well and for us as well volunteering really has to be a two-way street. So it's not just about us taking people's time. It's about also match making them with opportunities. So that's mutually beneficial. So to be able to pay for people's training is a huge part of that.
Jackie James
I think when I see people move on and succeed sometimes their journeys is only small but it doesn't matter because it might look small to me or to someone else but for them, it's a big step.
Paul Gardner
It was fantastic to hear that we won. It was quite an emotional day. Actually. I know how much the money was needed and the plans and I know they would make the most from it.
Plus new for this year, even more ways to make a difference
We’ve partnered with Crowdfunder so that local good causes backed by brokers can also benefit from
- Match funding up to £50,000*
- Additional guidance on fundraising, promotion and project management
- Volunteers from Aviva
*Terms and conditions, eligibility and match funding rules apply
Previous winners
Take a look at some of the previous broker winners and the projects supported.
£20,000 Winners
£10,000 Winners
£5,000 Winners
£2,500 Winners
Contact us
If you need any support or you’ve got any questions about the Aviva Broker Community Fund please get in touch with your Aviva broker development manager or email us at comfund@aviva.com.