Corporate Responsibility

Aviva works closely with the communities in which it operates through investment in a variety of localised schemes. Where possible, we try to provide opportunities for employees to get involved with these schemes through our volunteering programme. Local activities include:

• Canaries for the Community, which is a Norfolk initiative with Norwich City Football Club and forms part of our overall sponsorship of the Aviva Community Stand. Each year, community work is undertaken involving Norwich City fans and Aviva staff helping at a non-league football club and assisting in a local area of need.

• Paying for it is a new schools programme developed by independent education charity Citizenship Foundation and Aviva which supports and enriches citizenship teaching around economics and finance. Forty eight schools have been twinned with local Aviva offices in 12 key areas, where over 300 Aviva volunteers will use specially written resources to work with small groups of young people on different economic citizenship topics such as health, money, environment and public spending.

  If your school is interested in this scheme all classroom resources can be downloaded free of charge from www.payingforit.org.uk

• Friday Night Football is a scheme which has been running in Eastleigh for a number of years. Aviva provides funding for coaches and a venue for 5 a side football to take place on a Friday evening. The aim is to provide the youth in deprived areas with support and facilities to get them involved in sports activities and channel their energies constructively.

• Climate Change Champions is a partnership between Aviva and environmental charity, Global Action Plan. Fifty one volunteers from Aviva's offices in Norwich, York and Perth will mentor over 450 students ranging from 5 to 16 years from 30 schools on understanding climate change, calculating their school's carbon footprint and devising a campaign to cut down on school waste and energy use. The best schools will aim to reduce their carbon emissions by more than 20%.

  If your school is interested in this scheme all classroom resources can be downloaded free of charge from visit www.climatechangechampions.org.uk