Partnering to Create Value
Partnering to Create Value
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IGO’s long-term success depends on our ability to build relationships with business partners, governments, non-government organisations, host communities and other stakeholders. IGO’s activities affect our employees, contractors, suppliers, Traditional Owners and the community. In order to better understand and respond to these impacts we continue to build and maintain strong relationships with all our stakeholders.
Traditional Owners and communities
IGO’s success is deeply rooted in the support of our host communities where we operate. Stakeholder engagement is essential to building respectful and trusted relationships. Our stakeholder policy commits IGO to working in a transparent and collaborative way with our stakeholders, and we seek to engage regularly, openly and honestly, in order to consider stakeholder views and concerns in our decision making.
We acknowledge the important role of Traditional Owner groups and deeply respect their rights, cultural heritage, and enduring connection to the land on which we operate.
Engaging with our host Traditional Owner communities, particularly those most directly impacted by our exploration, operations, care and maintenance, and closure activities, is an ongoing part of our activities. We prioritise early engagement with Traditional Owners at the outset of exploration or project development. Before commencing any exploration activities, IGO seeks to establish Heritage Protection Agreements (HPAs) with all relevant Traditional Owner groups. This early engagement is critical for building trust, facilitating timely land access, and ensuring respectful, long-term relationships throughout the life of our projects.
For further information on our work with Traditional Owners and communities, refer to our Sustainability Reports and Databooks.
IGO Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan
Endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, our first Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) outlines the actions we will take to build stronger relationships with the Traditional Owners connected to the lands on which we live and work and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Our vision for reconciliation is the development of strong and deep relationships and engagement with our host Traditional Owner communities, where we recognise, respect, and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage and deliver tangible social and economic opportunities.
We want to build on our ongoing commitment to create genuine respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their cultures and lived experience, and enhance opportunities for equity both within and outside our organisation.
Our Innovate RAP will drive our continuing journey of reconciliation by formalising the work that many of our people already do and drawing together people from across our workforce in a considered and positive process of engagement, reflection, and action.
Corporate Giving and Partnerships
At IGO we see beyond, taking meaningful action today to shape a brighter, better tomorrow, for our people, community, and environment.
We recognise the importance and value of contributing to the host communities where we operate. Our corporate giving program enables us to contribute through financial and in-kind support and is focused on meaningful engagement with our community stakeholders.
IGO will be accepting applications for funding on a bi-annual basis in the months of February/March and August/September.
To be eligible for review by IGO, all requests for funding require a completed application form to be submitted in the eligible months of February/March or August/September. Applications received outside of this period will not be reviewed.
Applications for funding of up to $10,000 can be submitted by completing the Application for IGO’s Corporate Giving Program, found online and emailing to corporategiving@igo.com.au. or posted to PO Box 496 South Perth WA 6951.
Our Corporate Giving process is guided by our Corporate Giving Standard. This standard describes who is eligible to apply for IGO Corporate Giving and the application and award processes.
IGO reports on its Corporate Giving activities in our annual Sustainability Report.
We are proud to support the incredible work of Earbus Foundation of Western Australia.
We help Earbus deliver multiple visits to the Esperance and Norseman region,where we see firsthand the valuable work, they do to reduce the impact of middle ear disease in Aboriginal and at-risk children.
Our support provides these children continuation of care and removes some of the barriers to learning that would otherwise exist without this service.
At IGO we place a strong importance on developing future generations, we work with schools directly as well as through our corporate sponsorships to provide further educational opportunities.
Our support includes providing funding to:
- enable a hands-on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning program to be implemented at Norseman District High School and surrounding Goldfields schools through the CoRE Learning Foundation
- site visits and presentations from our staff for students at the Esperance Senior High School
- funding to support engagement and attendance at key school activities, including camps and NAIDOC events; and
- specialised one on one tutoring through the Teach-Learn Grow programs.
CoRE Graduate Students at Nova
We are proud to partner with the RFDS and support their Flying Doctor Day as a giving partner.
Our operations and exploration activities are in remote and regional areas, often hundreds of kilometers from hospitals and healthcare. We are proud to support the Royal Flying Doctors WA, which provides a critical aeromedical service so that our people - and others in remote
communities - have access to timely and high-quality medical care, wherever they are.
We have proudly supported Ronald McDonald House Charities WA (RMHCWA) since 2017.
We are the presenting partner of Up All Night, an overnight walking marathon which sees around 1000 people participate annually to raise funds that help provide accommodation, programs and other vital services for regional families when their child requires medical treatment in Perth. Our people volunteer as walkers raising funds and at the IGO Pit Stop, offering encouragement and care to everyone walking 42km throughout the night.
Our support for Home for Dinner enables our people to cook a meal from the heart, for families with ill or injured children who rely on Ronald McDonald House Charities WA.
Each year we Adopt a Room at Ronald McDonald House to support families have quality accommodation including access to 24/7 support staff, home-cooked meals, wellbeing programs and play and learning programs.
We are proud to partner with RMHC WA and play a role in supporting families with sick or injured children.
Aligned with our focus on supporting and improving the education and health and wellbeing of children, we have been pleased to sponsor KickArts school holiday programs in Esperance. Named after the Nyungar seasons Makuru, Djilba-Kambarang, Birak and Djeran, the holiday programs provide children aged 5 -17 years arts-based workshops that are run by experienced artists.
MADALAH offers scholarships for Indigenous students from remote and regional communities to Western Australia’s leading boarding schools and universities. We have been supporting MADALAH since 2019.
During the year, IGO entered into a three-year agreement with the Clontarf Foundation to support Clontarf’s Esperance and Kalgoorlie career programs for young Aboriginal men. Clontarf has a proven positive impact on improving the education, self-esteem, life skills and employment prospects for participants.
St Bart's 
In 2023, IGO announced a new partnership with St Bart's to support vulnerable Western Australians facing homelessness, mental health challenges, trauma or hardship.
St Bart's is a leading not-for-profit organisation in perth which provides accomodation and outreach services to those experiencing homlessness in WA.
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