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Charities scoop £14,000 each from Anglo American’s Great Days initiative

24 January, 2023

Saint Catherine’s Hospice, Scarborough Mates and Yorkshire Air Ambulance have a shared a pot of over £42,000 as a result of Anglo American’s Great Days Programme - an internal campaign to drive safe and responsible working practices and behaviours.

Every January, the team working on Anglo American’s Woodsmith Project are asked to vote for their favourite local charity, with the three most popular picked as the beneficiaries for the year.

The charity pot accumulates every day based on safety and environmental performance and meeting project milestones, with almost £140,000 being distributed to local charities as a result over the last three years.

Susan Stephenson from Saint Catherine’s Hospice, said: “This is a huge amount of money for us that will make such a big difference to those people who need our support at the most difficult times in their life.”

“We’re so grateful for this funding. It was so much more than we expected and means we’ll be able to do so much more for those that we help avoid social isolation,” added Iain Hale, Founder and Trustee of Scarborough Mates.

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance has been a Great Days beneficiary for three years running, receiving over £55,000 from the initiative. “The Woodsmith Project team can be incredibly proud every time they see one of our yellow helicopters in the air. This is a fantastic amount of money to receive and has helped, and continues to help, so many people when they need it,” said their Fundraising Manager Linda Stead.

Tom McCulley, Crop Nutrients CEO, said: “It was great to meet our 2022 charities and hear about all the great work our funding is going to support. Supporting people living in the communities surrounding the Woodsmith Project is central to Anglo American’s core purpose – to re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives.”

The Woodsmith Project team have been voting for their 2023 Great Days charities, which will be announced soon.

More information on Anglo American’s community contributions can be found via
https://uk.angloamerican.com/our-community

For further information, please contact:

Daniel Gregory
[email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 7890 049400

Notes to editors:

Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers.

With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move and market our products to our customers – safely and sustainably.

As a responsible producer of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, premium quality iron ore and metallurgical coal for steelmaking, and nickel – with crop nutrients in development – we are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040.

More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy environment, creating thriving communities and building trust as a corporate leader. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and for our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

The Woodsmith Project involves digging two 1 mile deep mine shafts at Woodsmith Mine near the village of Sneaton near Whitby, and a 23 mile transportation tunnel to a processing facility and port on Teesside.  In a world first, most of the surface infrastructure at Woodsmith Mine is being built underground and the site landscaped to minimise the visual impact on the surrounding countryside.  It will mine a giant deposit of the mineral polyhalite, which will be sold as a natural, low carbon environmentally friendly fertiliser.

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