The Aviva Community Fund offers you the chance to get funding to support an important cause in your community. Whether you’re looking to solve a problem, speed up an ongoing project or help in some other way, this is your chance to make a real difference to your local community. And it all starts with your great idea.
A project can be submitted by, or on behalf of, any not-for-profit community
organisation.
You have six categories to choose from:
Health, disability and well-being
Projects related to looking after people’s health and well-being. These projects could include anything from active living and hospice care to community centres running well-being initiatives.
Supporting the younger generation
Projects that look after younger people, support family life and young people, education programmes, scouts groups, and more.
Supporting the older generation
Projects that offer help and support to the older generation, such as befriending and listening services, dementia charities, projects helping people older people get online, and more.
Sport in the community
Projects for community and grass roots sports clubs. This could include all-ages, or age-specific projects, or sports activities aimed at encouraging particular groups of people to become more active.
Environment in association with the Mirror
Projects that restore, protect, connect communities with and/or encourage the use of green spaces such as community parks, wildlife habitats and woodlands. Or projects that support or enable environmental initiatives such as recycling, renewable energy projects or environmentally friendly building methods.
Community support
Use this category if your project will have a positive effect on your community, but doesn’t fit into the categories above. It could be a community development project, a project looking after the welfare of animals, or something else entirely.
The funding levels you can apply for are:
• Up to £1,000
• Up to £5,000
• Up to £10,000
• Up to £25,000
How the competition works:
Put your thinking cap on
What projects does your organisation need financial support for that will make a positive impact in your community?
Submit your project
Fill in our short entry form. There are four categories you can enter into, and four levels of funding to choose from.
Rally the voters
Promote your project to as many friends, family members and neighbours as possible to secure their votes.
Fingers crossed…
The projects with the most votes will become finalists and judged before the winners are announced.
For further information and to apply, visit: www.aviva.co.uk/good-thinking/community-fund/
Deadline: Tuesday 11 October 2016, 12:00