Aviva donates safety supplies to key workers in Yorkshire

With the majority of its staff working from home during the coronavirus crisis, Aviva has donated all of its hand sanitisers, rubber gloves, antiseptic wipes and face masks to care homes, hospitals and social care staff.

In all some 5,000 pieces of kit have been given away. From its York offices alone it has donated more than 1,000 items to City of York Adult Social Care unit and North Yorkshire Police.

Sally Dillon, who works in Aviva’s finance team and involved in the York site response to Covid-19, said: “As the number of people in our offices reduced, our colleagues were really keen to see our excess sanitiser kits go to local key workers.

“As a result we are donating all our excess products to North Yorkshire Police and the City of York Adult Social Care unit who have distributed them to the fantastic teams going out into homes every day to help people with a variety of critical needs.”