Aviva Origins Network

Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, Origins have been at the forefront of all ethnicity-related conversations, and won the 'highly commended Outstanding Employee Network' award at the British Diversity Awards in 2022 and 'Outstanding Diversity Network' at the Inclusive Awards in 2023. 

We are focused on attracting, promoting and retaining more ethnically diverse employees – across all levels of the business. 

We are signatories of the Race at Work charter and have introduced a number of initiatives to support its five focus areas – from enabling career progression to capturing ethnicity data. We are also founding partners of Change the Race Ratio, setting targets for our ethnically diverse senior leadership.

Leadership and development programmes

We set up an Origins intern programme in 2018 across our London, Norwich and Sheffield offices to support younger, ethnically diverse generations from lower socio-economic backgrounds kick-start their careers in Financial Services. This programme has since been developed into the Aviva Internship Programme, getting business areas across all our main offices in the UK involved. Since 2018, over 120 interns have completed the programme, with many returning to our graduate programmes. 

UK Pay Gap Report