IGO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2022— 55 54 —IGO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2022 Traditional Owners and Communities Working With Our Communities IGO Corporate Giving IGO is committed to its Corporate Giving Program that enables us to live our purpose of Making a Difference and is at the core of our engagement with our host communities. IGO’s longterm success depends on our ability to build meaningful relationships with our host communities and related stakeholders. To this end, IGO works in a collaborative and transparent way with our corporate giving stakeholders to deliver shared value and ensure that our contributions make a positive impact on the long-term vibrancy and sustainability of these communities. Our corporate giving strategy aims to: • support and improve the educational outcomes of children • support and improve the health and wellbeing of children • enhance, protect or rehabilitate the environment • develop decarbonisation or adaption initiatives to reduce climate change impacts; and • support promotion of STEAM and mining related education. Corporate giving is more than making donations, it is about meaningful engagement, and our Corporate Giving Program is guided by our Corporate Giving Standard. IGO’s corporate giving budget is based on a percentage of IGO’s revenue for the previous year, for FY22 this was calculated as 0.075% of total revenue. In FY22, IGO’s Corporate Giving Program made a difference to over 60 organisations and programs, with total payments of $686,417. For FY23, the Board has approved an increase to 0.09% of total revenue for the corporate giving budget. IGO encourages employee involvement in supporting local charities and fundraising events and supports employee efforts by complementing existing employee fundraising and contributions. In FY22, IGO supported employee led fundraising initiatives for the Salvation Army Queensland and New South Wales Flood Appeal, the PushUp Challenge, Mission Australia and the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Flying Doctor Day, with employee fundraising totalling $30,960 and IGO contributing $7,520. Case Study: AFO North IGO has been working with the Central Desert Native Title Services (CDNTS) since May 2021 with respect to Heritage Protection Agreements (HPA) with the Untiri Pulka native title holders and Upurli Upurli Nguratja Traditional Owners. The Upurli Upurli Nguratja agreement was executed in March 2022, and the Untiri Pulka agreement is expected to be executed in the first half of FY23 when access to the Tjuntjuntjara remote Aboriginal Community in the Great Victoria Desert is available following relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions. The agreement making process with the Upurli Upurli Nguratja and Untiri Pulka through CDNTS facilitated two helicopter heritage surveys to be completed that has enabled IGO’s extensive 2022/2023 AFO North exploration program to be implemented in full, subject to the avoidance of areas of importance to the Traditional Owners. During the Untiri Pulka heritage survey several cultural and historic locations important to the Spinifex People were identified for avoidance, including an untouched sandalwood cutter’s camp which older Spinifex men from Cundeelee had worked from in their youth. Some of the organisations and programswe supported in FY22 Australian Wildlife Conservancy Cannery Arts Centre Castletown Primary School Coolgardie Primary School Esperance St John Ambulance Esperance Music Festival Esperance Senior High School Future Female Leaders Program Mission Australia WA Norseman District High School Nulsen Primary School Olabud Doogethu Rotary Club of Esperance FY22 Corporate Giving Contributions Beneficiary Contribution ($pa) IGO Ongoing Commitments Clontarf Foundation 25,000 CoRE Learning Foundation 25,000 Dandjoo Darbalung 20,000 Earbus Foundation 75,000 Esperance Agricultural Show 25,000 Esperance District Football Association 10,000 Esperance Senior High School - STARS 25,000 Ronald McDonald House Charities WA – Up All Night and Adopt a Room 60,000 MADALAH 25,000 Royal Flying Doctor Service WA 75,000 Teach Learn Grow 50,000 Total 415,000 Other Community Projects 271,417 Grand Total 686,417 IGO Graduates during a CoRE Learning Program field trip with Norseman District High School Spinifex Elders, Byron Brooks and Nancy Donnegan point to the remains of the old shelter at the Sandalwood Camp (photo credit: Scott Cane)
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