What is the Aviva Community Fund?
The Aviva Community Fund helps local causes build stronger communities across the UK. We believe that by caring more about communities today, we can help them create a better future tomorrow.
And it's about more than money - the Aviva Community Fund also gives causes access to volunteers, as well as tools and resources to help build their capabilities and achieve long-term sustainable success.
If you are interested in applying, please note we are closing this Fund to new applications on 15 December 2025.
We are excited to be launching a refreshed fund for small charities from early 2026.
Benefits of the Aviva Community Fund
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£2 million of funding for community projects
In 2025, we’re committing £2m to projects helping people take control of their financial wellbeing, to protecting the places they love against the impact of climate change.
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When people donate, we donate too
We’ll match every individual donation you receive up to £250 until 11.59pm 31 December (or earlier if the Fund is fully distributed, eligibility criteria applies).
How our funding works
Funding is available for organisations looking to raise up to £50,000 and eligible causes can apply up to 15 December 2025. Once your application is approved, you’ll create a page that explains the project, its aims and add your fundraising target.
Please note the Aviva Community Fund will stop matching pledges made after 11:59pm on 31 December or earlier if the funding is fully distributed.
Moving the dial
Transcript for video The Feed
‘When you eat with The Feed, whether it’s our catering services or our café, all of our food is packed full of meaning. We support people off the street, into the kitchen and enable people to really change their lives.’
‘We’re passionate and people and we’re passionate about food.’
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‘Oh brilliant, that’s amazing’
We surprised some of our Aviva Climate Fund projects with some exciting news….
‘We’re going to give you an extra £10,000!’
‘Wow! That’s fantastic’
‘They really just wanted a hall for the church. As the project developed, our focus become much on it being a hall for the whole community. Its just a fantastic thing to be part of.’
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‘Its important to give ocean plastic a second life because if we don’t recycle it, it ends up in landfill. To deal with that then, we decided to make kind of low-tech plastic recycling machines and that’s what we’re doing at the moment in our lab.’
The Feed
The Feed is more than just a café – it’s a social enterprise. They offer trainees a four-week course on the key skills needed for working in hospitality, and then a four-week work placement to give them the experience they need to get started.
Many of the trainees have gone through complex issues like homelessness, substance misuse, and mental health problems, and The Feed is focused on helping them become independent and employed long-term. All the café’s profits go towards breaking down barriers to employment, by providing therapy alongside training and work experience.
Tulse Hill Holy Trinity Church
When Tulse Hill’s Holy Trinity Church needed a new hall, the team behind it were determined to create a community hub that contributed to fighting climate change. The idea was to not just be carbon neutral, but carbon negative – which meant using materials and techniques that actually store CO2, rather than release it.
It’s amazing what you can do with straw, some know-how, and a community that comes together.
Plastic@Bay
Plastic@Bay raised £5,000 to build machines that recycle ocean plastic for local beaches. With the help of the Aviva Community Fund, their lab is developing new prototypes that turn waste plastic into fence posts.
They pick up between 5-10 tonnes of plastic waste from local beaches every year -– and they’ve got ambitions to go even further.
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