IGO Interactive Annual Report 2018

SUSTAINABILITY & COMMUNITY At IGO we value our social license to operate and in FY18, we have worked hard to understand the matters that are material to our community stakeholders. When it comes to community engagement, we pride ourselves on being both proactive in anticipating the information that our stakeholders need and working collaboratively in exploring how we might add value within our host communities. IGO is proud of its Corporate Giving program and the contributions of our people. In FY18, our community consultation and engagement efforts focused on public meetings, a survey of key stakeholders and numerous one- on-one meetings between IGO representatives and members of the community. Public meetings or engagement activities were completed in Esperance, Norseman, Kambalda and Leonora in Western Australia and Omeo in Victoria. As in previous years, IGO has participated in ongoing programs to engage the Ngadju people, the native title holders of the land on which our Nova Operation sits and a key area of focus for our exploration activities. The establishment of the Nova Operation was, and remains, dependent on the effective operation of a land access agreement between IGO and the Ngadju’s representative entity, the Ngadju Native Title Aboriginal Corporation (NNTAC). IGO is pleased to note that in FY18, we commenced production royalty payments to the NNTAC. In FY18, IGO also concluded Exploration Deeds with the Central Land Council, the representative body for the Traditional Owners of the land in the southern part of the Northern Territory. Consequently, access to that tenure has now been granted enabling the commencement of exploration activities. We are committed to doing better. In FY19, IGO will complete various works in accordance with our Community Engagement Plan. One element of this plan is building community engagement capacity in our people on the frontline. As is true of any company completing exploration work in ‘greenfield’ areas, our front-line exploration staff are often the primary source of contact with individual members of our host communities and hence their skill and approach can set the tone for the ongoing relationship. Mindful of this, in FY19, all IGO’s exploration staff will receive training in cultural awareness and general community engagement. CORPORATE GIVING In FY18, over 48 organisations or projects benefited from IGO’s Corporate Giving program. IGO’s total corporate giving spend for FY18 was $252,385. In FY18, IGO supported a diverse range of organisations and programs including: • Teach Learn Grow • Norseman District High School • Esperance District High School • Goldfields Girls • Girls Academy • Ronald McDonald House, Perth In addition, many IGO employees volunteered their own time to support various organisations and causes. Under IGO’s Corporate Giving Standard, IGO will provide up to two day’s paid leave per annum to any employee wishing to donate their time to a Targeted Beneficiary as approved by the IGO Corporate Giving Committee. Within the constraints of the approved IGO Corporate Giving budget, IGO will also match, dollar-for-dollar, all funds raised by IGO employees for the benefit of beneficiaries approved by the IGO Corporate Giving Committee. In June 2018, IGO launched its workplace giving program through an online platform managed by Good2Give, that enables employees to make pre-tax donations from their pay direct to a charity. IGO will match employee donations up to a group wide $10,000 cap per annum and pay all the administrative costs so that 100% of employee donations go directly to the charity. IGO is proud of its Corporate Giving program and, as the budget for the program is based on 0.06% of the previous year’s total revenue, we look forward to increasing the program and the support it gives as the Company grows. 12 — IGO ANNUAL REPORT 2018