The Aviva Community Fund offers support and funding to the causes close to your heart. Put forward a project for a local cause, and you could win it funding of up to £25,000. The Aviva Community Fund wants you to submit a project for your community organisation and tell them what difference these much-needed funds could make. Secure enough votes from friends, family and supporters in your community and you could be entered into the Finals, where a judging panel will award the funds.
If your project secures among the most votes and wows the judges, it will be in with a chance of securing those much-needed funds.
Your project is right for the Aviva Community Fund if:
• it will make a positive difference in your community
• it is associated with a community organisation or charity, and will take place in the UK
• it will be completed or well underway before December 2015
• it can ideally be completed with the requested funding alone
To suit projects of different sizes, the funding levels you can apply for are: up to £1,000, up to £5,000, up to £10,000 and up to £25,000.
There are four project categories to choose from in which to submit your entry:
1. Health, disability and wellbeing
Projects related to looking after people’s health and wellbeing. These projects could include anything from active living and sports groups and organisations to hospice care, or community centres running wellbeing initiatives.
2. Supporting the younger generation
Projects that look after younger people, supporting family life and young people, education programmes, scouts groups, youth sports groups and so on.
3. Supporting the older generation
Projects that provide help and support to the older generation, such as befriending and listening services, dementia charities and so on.
4. Community support
Use this category if your project will have a positive community impact and doesn’t fit into the categories above. It could be a community development project, environment-focused, a project looking after the welfare of animals, or something else entirely.
Once voting opens on 1 May 2015, share your project with as many friends, family and community supporters as possible to secure their votes, the projects with the most votes will become finalists.
For further information and to apply, visit: https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/cms/submit-a-project
Deadline: Friday 24 April 2015