AIB Community €1 Million Fund 2024
Thank you to everyone who nominated their local charity in the AIB Community €1 Million Fund.
Find out more about AIB's Community €1 Million Fund.
Hear directly from Children’s Grief Centre and Novas Homeless Shelter, two charities supported by their local communities this year.
AIB - Novas Homeless Shelter and Children's Grief Centre
AIB - Novas Homeless Shelter and Children's Grief Centre
Our Partners in the Community
FoodCloud
AIB and FoodCloud have a shared vision of building more sustainable communities to support the just transition to a low carbon economy, and an Ireland where no good food goes to waste. Since the start of our partnership, AIB has enabled FoodCloud to redistribute over 28 million meals.
AIB employees have volunteered with FoodCloud, either in the Cork, Galway or Dublin Hubs, gleaning on farms, or through skilled volunteering, donating over 11,103 volunteering hours since 2018. Our partnership has meant that 12,000 tonnes of food was redistributed, with over 38,409 tonnes of CO2 eq. avoided.
National Gallery of Ireland
AIB is delighted to sponsor the Portrait Prize and Young Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland.
AIB has, over many decades, offered significant support to the development of the arts in Ireland as part of its contribution to Irish society and the communities we serve. The AIB Art Collection is one of the finest single private collections of over 3,000 pieces of modern Irish works that capture a unique sense of time, place and human emotion and reflect the changing nature of Ireland’s cultural heritage.
AIB is pleased to sponsor these special competitions which reflect contemporary Ireland in all its diversity today. We look forward to supporting artists of all ages and celebrating the wealth of talent flourishing among communities across the country
100 Million Trees Project
AIB is supporting the 100 Million Trees Project for their 2024/2025 planting season. The Project is a community-driven initiative to plant 100 million native Irish trees across Ireland, helping to reverse the environmental damage caused by the reduction of forests worldwide and the loss of huge areas of biodiversity. AIB have sponsored with planting of 275,000 trees using ‘the Miyawaki method’.
GOAL
After over 16 years of supporting GOAL through fundraising events, in 2021, we became official lead sponsor of the humanitarian agency’s flagship event, the GOAL Mile. The growth of the event will empower GOAL to support communities affected by climate change across the world. We support GOAL’s valuable work in Ukraine and donations to the GOAL Ukraine Emergency Appeal. AIB has donated €250,000 to support GOAL’s Ukraine Emergency Appeal, as part of an overall €500,000 commitment to support those in need.
We stand with GOAL to support the communities most affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. GOAL have been supporting these regions for over 10 years. Your donations go towards restarting humanitarian aid programmes that deliver shelter, access to food, clean water, health and social support. Donate directly to GOAL.
Junior Achievement Ireland
Partnering with Junior Achievement Ireland is aligned with AIB’s wider sustainability strategy to build a society that is socially and economically inclusive through investing and raising awareness in access, education and innovation for our customers, colleagues and our communities.
In 2021, we introduced the AIB 'It's My Business' programme in 55 primary schools across Ireland where 1,998 nine to eleven year old students were educated on entrepreneurship. As part of our wider relationship, we continue to support JAI to reach 408 schools and over 30,000 students in Ireland.
AsIAm
Established in 2014, AsIAm works to create a society in which every autistic person is empowered to reach their own personal potential and fully participate in society. By helping to develop the capacity of the autism community and addresses the societal barriers to inclusion. The ambition is to make Ireland the world’s most autism-friendly country. Today, AsIAm is Ireland’s most influential autism charity with a team of 21 staff, half of whom are themselves autistic.
In December 2022 we announced our partnership with AsIAm. Throughout our partnership, we will be supporting AsIAm to roll out more support services to autistic people in Ireland while AsIAm will work with AIB to roll out training and supports. AIB is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse organisation that supports its customers and creates an environment in which all employees can develop and thrive.
AIB Community Spotlight
We strive to be an accelerator for change toward a more sustainable way of living, which is why we’re supporting our communities to achieve a more sustainable tomorrow. Together, we can make a meaningful difference, so we’re pledging to support, educate, learn from and empower our communities. AIB works closely with local communities through our programme of strategic community partnerships, volunteering, corporate giving and fundraising. We contributed €10.8m in financial investment to support our chosen partners and the wider community in 2023.
Click on the video to see 2023 AIB Community Highlights:
Our 2023 Community Highlights
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