Making a Difference: Volunteering at Aviva
Through a combination of employee volunteering, matched donations, payroll giving, and strategic partnerships, we’re proud to support charities and community organisations across Ireland. Our volunteering programme is a key part of how we live our values and contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive societ
How Aviva Supports Volunteering
Paid Volunteer Leave
Every Aviva employee is entitled to 21 hours of paid volunteer leave per year (pro rata) to support charities and charitable causes.
Matched Giving & Payroll Donations
Employees can amplify their impact through matched funding and payroll giving schemes, making every donation go further.
Hands-On Volunteering Opportunities
From beach cleans to digital literacy workshops, we offer a wide range of volunteering activities throughout the year, to suit different interests, skills, and locations.
Our Charity Partners
Food Cloud
Tackling food waste and food insecurity, FoodCloud redistributes surplus food to over 750 charities across Ireland. Aviva supports their mission through funding and volunteering in distribution hubs, kitchens, and gleaning activities, helping reduce emissions and support vulnerable communities.
Leave no Trace
Promoting responsible outdoor recreation, Leave No Trace protects Ireland’s natural landscapes. Aviva funds primary school education programmes and employees participate in biodiversity surveys and beach cleans.
Age Action
Ireland’s leading advocacy group for older people, Age Action provides practical support through digital literacy workshops and gardening days. Aviva volunteers help older adults navigate online services through digital literacy programmes and maintain their outdoor spaces.
Other partnerships
Business in the Community School Programmes
Aviva funds and volunteers with World of Work, Time to Read, and Time to Count programmes, helping students build confidence and essential skills.
Children’s Books Ireland
Each year, Aviva funds five Free to Be Me libraries, each containing 100+ books celebrating diversity. Employees help select three of the library locations through internal competitions.
Alzheimer Society of Ireland
Aviva is Aviva's Sustainability Ambitions - Aviva Ireland the title sponsor of the Memory Walk. Employees support this initiative through volunteering, fundraising, and participation; honouring the 64,000 people living with dementia in Ireland.
Aviva sponsors the Continuum of Care programme, supporting mental health, advocacy, and community services for LGBTQ+ individuals.
TASC Financial Resilience Training
In partnership with TASC, Aviva delivers free financial education. To date, 356 individuals and 102 charity staff have benefited from this training.
Sustainability Ambitions
Sustainability is a fundamental part of Aviva’s strategy and integral to what we do as a business. Aviva is committed to playing its role in support a just transition focused on three core areas – acting on climate change; taking social action and embedding sustainability across our businesses.
Find out about sustainability initiatives at Aviva stadium including recycling rainwater which is used to water the pitch.
Acting on climate change
As insurers we are directly exposed to the consequences of climate change and are therefore committed to be Net Zero by 2040. In 2024, Aviva made progress towards this commitment including:
- Phasing out our petrol and diesel vehicles with 100% of our fleet now hybrid and electric vehicles
- Purchasing 100% renewable electricity tariffs for our Dublin, Cork and Galway offices
- 72% of Ireland and UK suppliers based on spend have set SBTi targets or equivalent
In Aviva Life and Pensions, 89% of our policyholder assets are under management and fund flows were classified as light green funds under the SFDR.
The Nature Trust
Aviva Ireland helps afforest Ireland
We are helping afforest Ireland for nature and for people with funding of €5 million to The Nature Trust to plant new native woodlands.
The native woodlands created will provide carbon sequestration – removing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and so helping to address climate change. In addition to the carbon removal, it will enhance existing and degraded biodiversity and create new biodiverse habitats, as well as providing free access to all for improved wellbeing and recreational amenities.
Taking social action
For over 300 years Aviva has played a part in the lives of our customers, forming connections with communities. Whether it’s helping people prepare for retirement, protect their belongings or looking after them while they travel, we help customers look forward with financial confidence. We want to play a part in making more people financially secure.
We work with a number of charity partners to deliver impact driven initiatives and encourage our people to volunteer their time to support our charity partners.
In 2023, Aviva Ireland took social action by investing €604,000 in our partner, employee and broker nominated charity and community organisations and contributing over 4,400 employee volunteer hours to a variety of programmes aimed at helping people in the communities where we live and work.
Aviva Broker Community Fund distributed €141,000 in 2024
This celebration saw causes that our brokers care about receiving a total of 108 donations ranging from the minimum award of €350 for early competition entrants up to the maximum of €20,000 to charities and community organisations. Read more on the broker community fund
Embedding sustainability across our businesses
We recognise the strength that comes from working as one team, collaborating and winning together for Aviva, for each other and for our customers. Our sustainability ambition is an integral part of how we run our business. This includes ensuring clear accountability for action, transparent reporting, respecting human rights and ensuring we are an employer of choice through our focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, health and wellbeing.
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Regional Partnerships
With offices in Cork and Galway, as well as Dublin, we also support two regional charity partners that enables our people to volunteer with and fundraise for local causes, helping to make a difference in our local communities.
Aviva Bees
To support native Irish bee populations, we have five hives across two of our locations and plant wildflowers at our retail parks. Can you spot our Queen Bee below?
Our Reporting
Aviva Ireland is a proud signatory of Business in the Community Ireland's low carbon pledge.
Aviva plc have set science-based targets with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The targets, aligned to a 1.5°C pathway for operations, supply chain and investments, are a part of Aviva’s commitment to become a Net Zero company by 2040.
Find out more about Aviva plc sustainability reporting.
Aviva Group Services Ireland Limited, a private company limited by shares. Registered in Ireland No.322579. Registered Office: Cherrywood Business Park, Dublin, Ireland, D18 W2P5.