Irish Life in the community
We actively embrace our responsibility to positively impact the future for everybody. Irish Life has a longstanding tradition of Corporate Social Responsibility, supported by our CSR Committee.
In 2025, we developed our Society Strategy as part of our ongoing ambition to drive positive change. This will guide the role we play in improving our communities, our environment, and our broader society.
Supporting a better life
Irish Life is proud to partner with organisations that make a difference nationally and in our communities.
The Irish Life Staff Charities programme, raising money for selected charities each year, is close to our employees’ hearts.
Every year, Irish Life matches each Euro that employees raise for their chosen charities. Since its launch in 1995, the programme has raised a total of €6.24 million.
In 2026, Staff Charities embarked on a new chapter in our fundraising journey by choosing The Jack and Jill Children's Foundation as our long-term partner for the next three years.
This partnership is an opportunity to make a lasting impact through sustained support and collaboration. They are joined this year by our annual partners, A Lust for Life and Cystic Fibrosis Ireland.
Our social impact report
The impact we make across our communities
The impact we make across our communities
Our Society Strategy
We focus our efforts across four pillars:
- Being a community partner for opportunity.
- Supporting Ireland's for better futures via sustainable business.
- Helping people build healthier lives and wellbeing.
- Advocating for progress on issues that shape Ireland's future.
How we do it
For decades, this work has been underway through staff fundraising and matched funding, community education programmes and national health partnerships.
Our Social Impact Report showcases the breadth of activities carried out across the Group and highlights the energy and enthusiasm of the people working in Irish Life.
Gratitude & optimism
We want to thank all of our employees and partners who have been involved in these initiatives.
We are so proud of what we have achieved together and look forward to building on this impact for many years to come.
Our Community Partnerships
Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs
In 2023 we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Irish Life GAA Healthy Club Programme. The programme delivers health and wellbeing benefits worth €50M to Ireland, according to an independent Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation conducted by Just Economics. The partnership supports healthy communities across the country and in 2025, over 39,000 people from over 1,000 GAA clubs nationwide tracked over 7 million kilometres through MyLife.
Larkin Community College & P-TECH
We are now into our sixth year of partnering with P-TECH and Larkin Community College. PTECH is a global education programme that complements a student's normal secondary education and enables them to gain a third-level qualification. Transition-year students from Larkin College complete work experience for three weeks in Irish Life and fifth-year students receive mentoring from Irish Life mentors. In 2021, Larkin Community College was one of the Irish Life Staff Charities and €207,000 was fundraised by employees.
Scoil Chaoimhín, Time to Read
We are over 10 years into our partnership with Business in the Community on the Time to Read Programme with local primary school, Scoil Chaoimhín. The Time to Read programme provides children in second class with reading support from an Irish Life volunteer. Time to Read plays an important role in helping Ireland improve its literacy levels and Irish Life is proud to be involved.
Business to Arts
Irish Life is proud to be a founding member of Business to Arts. Business to Arts is a charity that develops strategic creative partnerships between the corporate and cultural sectors. Having worked together for nearly thirty years, Irish Life brings its expertise to the wider artistic community, and works with Business to Arts to broaden its impact on the cultural sector.
Irish Life Staff Charities
Every year, Irish Life staff raise funds for charity partners chosen by our employees. Since 1995, we have raised a total of €5.6 million for dozens of charities. As well as annual fundraising events and challenges, over a thousand Irish Life employees donate via salary deduction each month.
This year's Irish Life charity partners are the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation, A Lust for Life, and Cystic Fibrosis Ireland.
In 2025, a total of €580,000 was donated to our partners Breast Cancer Ireland and Pieta via fundraising events including Darkness Into Light, the Very Pink Run, the Irish Life Dublin Marathon and Race Series, and various other activities including bake sales and sponsored walks.
Our 2024 charity partners, Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association and The Down Syndrome Centre North East, received €560,000. In 2023 we donated €550,000 to ChildVision and the Gavin Glynn Foundation and in 2022, the total donated to our two charity partners - Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland and Women’s Aid was €512,000.
MyLife Challenges
Irish Life delivers nationwide steps challenge initiatives through our 'MyLife' app. The challenges are hugely successful in recognising and rewarding the importance of physical activity and community wellbeing.
- Over 150,000 people have participated in MyLife Challenges
- 39,000 participants from 1,000 GAA clubs nationwide tracked 7 million kilometres in the 2024 Every Step Counts Challenge
- €10,000 was donated between LGBT Ireland, GCN, BeLong To, Shoutout following the successful Pride MyLife Challenge in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
- In 2023 and 2022, we supported the Irish Life Dublin Marathon Race Series events and the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk in 2022 on the MyLife app
- €10,000 was donated to the Samaritans Ireland after the GAA My Mind Matters Challenge in 2021