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Aviva donates €120,000 to support worthy causes nationwide that Brokers care about

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Aviva held its Broker Community Fund awards at an event in Aviva Stadium in early December. This celebration saw causes that our brokers care about receiving a total of 32 donations ranging from the minimum award of €1,000 up to the maximum of €20,000 awarded to the winning charities or community organisations.

To ensure this year awards could be hosted safely for the benefit of all participants and to allow more brokers and charity staff to attend, the event was hosted in a hybrid format. This allowed for some of our shortlisted charities, community organisations and brokers to attend and present in person, and other to present and attend the event online. The largest donation of €20,000 for the winner of the Charity category was awarded to Ballyowen Meadows special school, based in Loughlinstown, Dublin, for its project to develop a sensory garden for the children at their school. The school was nominated by Stephen Norris of Financial Planning Matters. The full list of winners in the Charity category were as follows:

Charity Nominating Brokerage Broker Donation
Ballyowen Meadows Special School Financial Planning Matters Ltd Stephen Norris € 20,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Ireland Pembroke Insurances Alan Guilfoyle € 5,000
Oesophageal Cancer Fund ( OCF) Arachas Corporate Brokers Brona Wright € 5,000
Limerick Suicide Watch Cullen Insurances Billy Leahy € 5,000
SOSAD Ireland Alliance Insurance Broker Valerie Deasy € 5,000

Three donations, each to the value of €10,000, were awarded to the three winners of the Community organisations category: Oughterard AFC nominated by Iain Kilbane of Q Financial Advisors, Camross Parish Development nominated by David Peavoy of Peavoy Financial Planning and Happy Trails Therapeutic Riding School nominated by Siobhan Briscoe of Travers Insurance. The full list of winners in the Community Organisation category were as follows:

Community Organisation Table

Community Organisation Nominating Brokerage Broker Donation
Happy Trails Therapeutic Riding School Travers & Co. Insurances Limited Siobhán Briscoe € 10,000
Camross Parish Development Association Peavoy Financial Planning Limited David Peavoy € 10,000
Oughterard AFC Q Financial Services Ltd. Iain Kilbane € 10,000
Mullahoran GFC Community Centre and GAA facilities John Brady Insurances Ltd Ciaran Brady € 5,000
Kill Community Alert Key Financials Jacqueline McQuillan € 5,000

To align with our support for Climate Action and Diversity and Inclusion, Aviva introduced two new special awards for projects that support action in these areas. Bernard Jackman, the former Irish international rugby player and current commentator who has sat on the judging panel of the Broker Community Fund for the last three years, was on hand to present these awards. Vision Sports Ireland, nominated by Barry Ennis of Eppione Brokers, took home €10,000 for the diversity and inclusion award and Limerick Civic Trust, nominated by Martin Kelly of Cullen Insurances took home €10,000 for the Climate Action award.

Following the award presentations, 20 additional entries from the charities or community organisations were drawn out from a list of commended nominations and will each be awarded a donation of €1,000. See full list below.

We would like to once again thank everyone who entered this year’s Aviva Broker Community Fund.  It is uplifting to see all the incredible work that local charities and community organisations are engaged with for the benefit of their communities.  Once again, the real challenge for the judging panel was to make their selections from so many worthy causes. These awards represent an integral part of our community giving and we are really grateful to the broker community for getting behind these awards in such numbers and taking the time to send in your nominations. We hope that the awards given will go some way to supporting local charities and community organisations achieve their goals

Brian O’Neill, Head of Communications, Brand & Sponsorship at Aviva Ireland

With 135 nominations submitted into this year’s Aviva Broker Community Fund, we would like to again thank all the brokers who nominated great causes and congratulations to all those who were awarded donations from this year’s fund.

20 donations of €1,000 pulled from a draw were awarded to the following:

Charity / Community Organisation Nominating Brokerage Broker Location
Caherlistrane GAA & LGFA Carey Financial Solutions Michael Judge Co. Galway
Cliona’s Foundation Metis Ireland Carl Widger Limerick
Crann Centre CLG Provest Pension Consultants Mark O Sullivan  Cork
The Cavan Centre Ltd O’Leary Insurances (Dublin) Ltd Aidan Waters Dublin
Scoil Nais Caitriona Aon Andrew Mitchell Dublin
Four Masters GAA Club McSharry Foley Ltd t/a whoops.ie Tania McGroarty Sligo
Sligo Cancer Support Centre Ltd Hastings Insurance Brokers Neil Carew Sligo
New Ross Town FC Creane & Creane Sinead Gaffney Enniscorthy
Amen Support Services CLG T/A Men’s Aid Ireland Robert Blythman & Associates Ltd Hilary Blythman Dublin
Galwegian Rugby Football Club O’Learys Insurances ( Galway ) Ltd Michael Tarpey Galway
Mallow RFC Barry-John Ryan Financial Planning Barry-John Ryan Co. Cork
ACT for Meningitis Hennelly Finance Sandra Clancy Galway
CLG Daingean Ui Chuis Seán O’Sullivan & Co Seán O’Sullivan Co. Kerry
Amber Womens Refuge Cleere Life & Pensions Gearoid Cleere Kilkenny
Raheny G.A.A Club Citywide Financial Solutions Helen Connor O’Neill Dublin
Nenagh Eire Og Hurling & Football Club Quinlan Financial Services Hugh Maloney Co. Tipperary
Galway SPCA Fahey Financial Solutions Aisling Griffin Co. Galway
Cian’s Kennels Flynn & Lynch Enda Flynn Co. Longford
Sligo Rugby Football Club Flanagan Ford Ltd Kenneth O’Neill Sligo
ST Josephs Foundation McCarthy Insurance Group Keith Kavanagh Co. Cork

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