We place great store in being a respectful and valued neighbour in all the communities around our sites. It is fundamental to our License to Operate, and helps ensure the health and sustainability of both the communities we work in and our operations.
Through our programmes, partnerships and philanthropic donation, INEOS supports a diverse range of health, education, conservation and grassroots sport initiatives. These include our recent donation of £100m to Oxford University to tackle the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance, and our support of The Daily Mile which now sees over 3 million school children around the world run every day for improved health and wellbeing.
INEOS products have several vital applications in healthcare, and promoting public health and wellbeing is central to our charitable aims too.
In January 2020 we announced a landmark £100m donation to create a new Institute based at the University of Oxford to tackle the brewing global “silent pandemic” of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
In addition to this, we fund the GO Run For Fun and The Daily Mile initiatives to help children develop enjoyable regular exercise habits, and educate them about looking after their health and wellbeing.
We have donated thousands of bottles of hospital grade sanitiser to frontline medical services during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and alongside this supported scores of struggling local healthcare organisations in the communities around our workplaces such as hospices and cancer care units. In 2019 we donated £500,000 to complete a world-class children’s A&E department at Southampton hospital near our former Head Office, which has also supported the hospital with its broader pandemic response.
We have supported the physical and mental health of ex-servicemen and women returning to civilian life through funding the prosthetics wing of the DMRC and backing Walking With the Wounded’s 10th-anniversary expedition to Oman with the INEOS Grenadier.
We are invested in the education of the next generation through longstanding outreach work with local schools near our manufacturing sites, as well as through global programmes focusing on early years STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) education such as TuWas! and the 1851 Trust.
We are also passionate about teaching young children to look after their health and wellbeing, and to build positive exercise habits from an early age through GO Run for Fun and The Daily Mile.
Other educational causes we have supported include a school waste recycling programme in South Africa, a sustainable community agriculture initiative in Zambia, and funding to support the future of London Business School.
Alongside our businesses’ ongoing sustainability commitments, we also support several conservation projects which aim to preserve wildlife and the natural environment.
These include social enterprises to protect and grow wild salmon stocks in Iceland and conserve wildlife through sustainable ecotourism in Tanzania. We are also trialing scalable projects to improve recycling rates through partner primary schools in South Africa, and to preserve vital forest corridors in Zambia.
