Sustainability Report 2021

Communities & Traditional Owners Over the course of the year, our people continued to live our value of Being Better Together and came together to raise money through fundraising activities for different charitable causes including Beyond Blue, R U OK?, Movember, the Wooroloo and Perth Hills bushfires, Lord Mayor’s Relief Fund, Push-Up challenge and the Tropical Cyclone Seroja appeals, with just under A$29,000 being raised, of which IGO further contributed to our employees donations. Some of the organisations and programs IGO supported during FY21 include: CoRE Learning Foundation As part of IGO’s ongoing support and part of our three-year agreement, the CoRE Learning Foundation embarked on a first-of-its-kind hands-on learning and mentoring initiative with IGO to connect young graduates with enthusiastic Norseman District High School CoRE secondary students. Through the initiative, our IGO graduates had the unique opportunity to share their expertise and assist the students in developing fundamental skills, aimed at improving literacy, numeracy and digital competencies. They also demonstrated how such fundamentals are used daily in their everyday working life, giving the students an insight into real-world learning, which is applicable to future job and career opportunities while exposing them to the exciting world STEM offers and encouraging them to consider pursuing a career in the mining industry. The first visit was a tremendous success with both the school’s principal, science teacher, and Suzy Urbaniak, CoRE’s Founder, being exceedingly encouraged about how the students connected with our graduates and how they will be able to build on this over the year. IGO graduates will be visiting the school twice each term culminating with a visit to the Nova Operation at the end of 2021. Clontarf Foundation – Esperance and Kalgoorlie IGO is in its second year of its three-year agreement with the Clontarf Foundation to support the organisation’s Esperance and Kalgoorlie based 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. Earbus Foundation WA IGO have been proud supporters of the incredible work of the Earbus Foundation for over three years, which aims to reduce the incidence and impact of middle ear disease on Aboriginal and at-risk children. Earbus mobile ear clinics provide comprehensive ear screening, surveillance and treatment by deploying doctors, audiologists, nurses and ear- nose-throat specialists who regularly visit regional communities. In the last quarter of FY21, 421 children were screened in the Esperance and Norseman region with just under a 93% engagement rate, despite a high level of new school enrolments. The visits helped detect an over 10% increase in hearing loss of the children tested. Last year, IGO helped Earbus deliver six visits to the region. Esperance Rotary Club and Southern Ports During the year IGO and Southern Ports (Esperance), through the Esperance Rotary Club, collaborated to provide funding for the purchase of a driving simulator to train high school students in the region. These training programs are being used in high schools in the eastern states with great success. The initial aim of the program is to teach young drivers to expect the unexpected while driving and help target specific driving challenges faced and learn how to react to them. Every year, deaths and injuries occur on regional roads through young drivers making mistakes in the first few years of driving, the objective of this program is to reduce these instances. The driving simulator is portable so the Esperance Rotary Club will be able to share this with Norseman District High School and any other schools in the area that have an interest in participating in the program. IGO are looking forward to seeing the program in place at the schools during the second half of 2021. Madalah Madalah offers secondary and tertiary education scholarships for Indigenous students from remote and regional communities to attend Western Australia’s leading boarding schools and universities. IGO’s ongoing funding assisted Madalah to support a staggering 360 students in FY21. In 2021, IGO proudly pledged its support to be the Platinum sponsor for the Madalah Ball. The Ball is an important event in the organisation’s calendar, raising much needed funds for the continual support of their existing students as well as the ability to provide more educational opportunities for Indigenous students in Western Australia. In FY21, Madalah were not able to support all applicants for their scholarships and 81 secondary and 39 tertiary students were not granted a scholarship for 2021 – the funds raised from the Ball aims to close this gap. Norseman District High School Central to the purpose of our Corporate Giving Program to support and improve the education and health and wellbeing of children, IGO granted A$55,000 to Norseman District High School in FY21 to support the following: • additional weekly visits by a school psychologist from Esperance, a critical mental health service for the school • STEM equipment for engineering and maths students • bike Rescue Program – a mentoring program for vulnerable students; and IGO team at the 2021 Up All Night Walk, raising money for Ronald McDonald House Charities 50 —IGO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2021