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Aviva

Aviva teams, building and repairing furniture for families.

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Aviva employees
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Items made home-ready
164
Families supported
Partner since 2022. These figures count every volunteer day in our records.
The partnership

Aviva volunteer days at Furniture Bank

Since 2022, teams from Aviva Canada have spent volunteer days at Furniture Bank, building, sanding, painting and repairing the furniture that families take home from our showroom.

Aviva Canada is one of the country’s leading property and casualty insurance groups. Its volunteer and giving program, AvivaGives, gives employees three days of paid time off to volunteer and matches their donations, and Aviva teams have chosen to spend some of that time with us.

The first Aviva volunteers came in June 2022, sanding and painting furniture in our Workshop. Another team followed in May 2023, sanding a round tabletop and building wooden furniture, and two more came in 2024. In April they assembled chairs and shelving, and in August they worked on our showroom floor, cleaning and repairing donated furniture so it was ready for families to choose. In November 2026, a team of 13 was back: they painted five dressers, built 14 pieces from side tables to bar stools and a shoe rack, and tested more than 50 donated electronics, 70 items made home-ready for 70 families.

Everything Aviva volunteers finish goes to the families we serve: newcomers and refugees, people leaving homelessness, and women and children starting over after a shelter stay. A social service agency refers each family to us, and our team helps them choose what their household needs from our showroom.

A repaired dresser or a newly built shelf is one more thing a family doesn’t have to go without in a new home. Every day a team spends in our Workshop or on our showroom floor means more furniture is ready when families arrive. Thank you to every Aviva volunteer who has spent a day with us, and to the teams still to come.

In the Workshop

Aviva volunteer days

Aviva volunteers in the Furniture Bank Workshop: a volunteer in a yellow Aviva shirt brushing finish onto a wooden panel, the team holding an oversized wrench, screwdriver and saw under the Furniture Bank banner, two volunteers painting wooden furniture, and the team beside assembled metal shelving and a dark cabinet

November 2026: painting and building furniture, and the team under the Furniture Bank banner.

Aviva volunteers at Furniture Bank in blue Aviva and purple We Care shirts: two volunteers in gloves cleaning a dark wooden bed frame, two volunteers with unfinished wooden drawers, two volunteers assembling a small black shelf, and the team posing in the warehouse among donated dressers

August 2024: cleaning and repairing furniture, assembling drawers and shelves, and the team in the warehouse.

Aviva volunteers in the Furniture Bank Workshop: two volunteers assembling a wooden chair frame, a volunteer assembling a white corner shelf, two volunteers assembling black shelving, and the team posing with mallets

April 2024: assembling chairs and shelving in our Workshop.

Aviva volunteers in yellow Aviva shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: two volunteers beside a light wooden cabinet, a volunteer sanding a round wooden tabletop, two volunteers with a slatted wooden piece, and the team under the Furniture Bank banner

May 2023: sanding a round tabletop and building wooden furniture.

Volunteers in the Furniture Bank Workshop: the group posing around a workbench, a volunteer in a respirator painting a board with a roller, a volunteer marking a piece of wood, and a volunteer using an orbital sander

June 2022: painting, measuring and sanding in our Workshop.

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