Orica Yarwun

COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM Orica Yarwun COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GUIDELINES ORICA YARWUN WILL LOOK OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY CRITERIA TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM INITIATIVES THAT FOCUS ON In assessing applications, projects, THE ENVIRONMENT AND The Orica Yarwun Community initiatives or events must meet the EDUCATION, AND ACTIVITIES Investment Program aims to build following criteria: relationships with our community THAT ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE stakeholders. • The project, event or initiative SOCIAL OUTCOMES FOR THE must clearly demonstrate a link REGIONAL COMMUNITY OF Five grants, of up to $5,000 each, to at least one of Orica Yarwun’s GLADSTONE. will be available for investment in community engagement opportunities which reflect the objectives listed and detail vision of our community investment how the project will meet this program, including: objective. • The project, initiative or event • Environmental and education must be visible and relevant to projects that improve the the local community. quality of the wider Gladstone • The project, initiative or event regional environment. must be within the local • Community welfare projects government area of Gladstone. that contribute to the health • The recipient must have the and well being of the wider capacity to implement the Gladstone community. proposal and ensure mutually • Social welfare projects that beneficial outcomes from the support and encourage grant. recreation and community building activities in the wider Gladstone community. • Work skills projects that support and encourage the development of the local workforce in the wider Gladstone community. COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GUIDELINES - MARCH 2014 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GUIDELINES WHO CAN APPLY FUNDING PARAMETERS ACKNOWLEDGMENT • Legally constituted community • Orica Yarwun will only support • Community grant recipients groups. projects located within our are required to comply with • Non government organisations. specific area of operation, this Orica’s logo conditions of • Not-for-profit organisations. covers the local government use and acknowledge Orica’s • Incorporated groups. area of Gladstone and Tannum contribution in appropriate Sands/Boyne Island, plus publicity and reports. WHAT WILL NOT BE FUNDED the smaller towns of Agnes • Any items where the Orica Water, Ambrose, Baffle Creek, logo appears or reference is • Initiatives, activities or events Benaraby, Bororen, Builyan, made to Orica’s support, must that are not aligned with our Calliope, Lowmead, Miriam Vale, be approved prior to print or community funding program Mount Larcom, Many Peaks, distribution. objectives. Nagoorin, Raglan, Rosedale, • Initiatives, activities or events Seventeen Seventy, Turkey REPORTING that fall outside our area of Beach, Ubobo and Yarwun. operations. • Community grant recipients • Orica Yarwun requires a final • Organisations that demonstrate must have relevant public report of the recipient’s activity, political, religious or socially liability insurance and attach event or project within 30 divisive objectives. certificate of currency to their days of the its completion. The • Individual sports people or application. report should include audience general sports teams. numbers, any media coverage • Private enterprise. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT and photos of the activity or • Projects which include, or event. encourage, unlawful activities. • Funding is offered on an annual • A reporting template will be • Projects which are not in basis. The activity must be provided to recipients and must keeping with Orica’s anti- conducted and completed be used for the final report discrimination policies and within the allocated financial submission. environmental policies. year. No commitments will be • Projects which do not have a made in relation to partnerships SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT demonstrated management/ over more than one financial accountability framework. year. • Successful applicants will be • Projects which may impose or • All community grants are made issued with, and required to imply conditions that would on a one-off basis with no sign and return a sponsorship limit Orica’s ability to carry out guarantee of ongoing funding. agreement which indicates its services and operations fully • Where an individual, acceptance of the sponsorship and impartially. organisation or company terms and conditions. • Feasibility studies or provides cash, goods or benchmarking exercises. services in return for an acknowledgment in any form, a sponsorship agreement is deemed to exist and any payments are subject to GST. COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GUIDELINES - MARCH 2014 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GUIDELINES APPLICATION REVIEW THINGS TO REMEMBER • All applications will be assessed by the Orica Yarwun Community Grants Committee. • Recommended applications 1. USE THE APPLICATION FORM TO COMPLETE YOUR will be submitted to the Orica FUNDING REQUEST. Yarwun Management Team for funding approval. • Applicants will be notified in 2. VERIFY YOUR ELIGIBILITY FOR FUNDING BY writing as to whether their CHECKING THE FUNDING CRITERIA CHECKLIST application has been accepted or declined during the month of ON THE APPLICATION FORM. April 2014. • Orica Yarwun may decline the 3. ATTACH REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION TO YOUR request for funding should it fail to meet any of the assessment APPLICATION. criteria or be an incomplete application. 4. SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION BY 14 MARCH 2013. For information on the Orica Yarwun Community Investement Program please contact Jackie Upton, Orica Yarwun Stakeholder Relations Officer on 07 4976 3434 or email at [email protected]. APPLICATIONS OPEN 15 FEBRUARY 2014 AND CLOSE FRIDAY 14 MARCH 2014. COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GUIDELINES - MARCH 2014.

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