Foundations, sponsorship and CSR activities in the KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. Group

Within the “Health and Safety” area, the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation provides financial support to healthcare institutions and private individuals. Most of the funds are used to purchase state-of-the-art equipment and specialist medical apparatuses for hospitals, rehabilitation centres and other healthcare facilities. This resulted in significant improvement of quality and effectiveness of pro-health prophylaxis. As regards health protection, the Foundation’s activities are not reduced merely to provision of equipment to healthcare facilities but it also finances preventive examinations for residents as well as initiates and supports projects promoting blood donation and hemotherapy, and co-funds scientific conferences in the field of medicine. Individuals receive financial aid from the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation for health care, including in particular: purchase of hearing aids and wheelchairs, medicines, surgical treatment, including treatment abroad, and inpatient rehabilitation.

With the wellbeing and safety in view, the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation is involved also in numerous projects and actions related to public safety. Modern rescue and fire-fighting equipment and special vehicles for local emergency rescue facilities, e.g. fire and police stations. State-of-the-art equipment contributes to increased safety and enables efficient operation of institutions that protect our life, health and property. As part of its social activity, the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation tries to counteract social exclusion of people and families that found themselves in a difficult life situation. Cash donations are made for projects related to organisation of Christmas actions for those in need, e.g. Christmas Eve for the homeless or gifts for children.

In 2020, due to the epidemic situation related to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus, “Health and Safety” became the priority area of the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation’s operations. The majority of donations was granted in this area. 74 individuals received funds in the total amount of PLN 703,610.59 and co-financing was provided to 69 projects in the total amount of PLN 8,314,769.20.

Moreover, concerned about the safety and health of the society, the Foundation’s Management Board initiated the “COVID-19 Countermeasures” Campaign in 2020, assuming the purchase and in-kind donation of means necessary for preventing, counteracting and fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19. In-kind donations with the total value of PLN 2,419,517.91 were provided to 134 institutions, including:

• 16 voivodeship offices, which forwarded the received in-kind donations to 1,038 institutions operating in individual voivodeships,
• – 22 voivodeship or poviat hospitals and healthcare facilities,
• complexes of schools located in the Copper Basin,
• 44 city and municipal social assistance centres and local authority units, Caritas branches, social assistance homes, hospices, foundations and other entities caring for the elderly and disabled and acting for the benefit of local communities.

The following were given as part of in-kind donations:

• 107,810 litres of Nitrosept disinfectant,
• 440,880 sachets of Nitrosept disinfectant,
• 43,800 protective masks,
• 1,485 protective suits,
• 250 medical visors,
• 20 protective goggles,
• 3 ventilators.

For the purpose of preventing, counteracting and fighting the COVID-19 contagious disease, the financial donations given to institutions were related to financial support for the purchase of specialist equipment, i.e. ventilators, patient monitors, oxygen cylinders, the provision of equipment for the diagnostic line for laboratory tests, thermal imaging cameras, equipment of performance of tests to increase the diagnostic capacities, and for the purpose of personal protective equipment, provision of additional meals to healthcare practitioners, support for seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of packages with food products, consumer chemicals and medical products.

In the “Science and Education” area, the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation focuses on promoting these domains. Support from the KGHM Foundation is received by educational facilities, which purchase teaching aids for the received funds, thereby contributing to an increased education level. Scientific projects supported by the Foundation include also scientific publications or organisation of scientific conferences, contests, as well as educational and integration classes for children and youth.

Science and education is the area of comprehensive actions of the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation to support the development of education, science, and economy based on knowledge, innovation, social capital, and learning society. As part of a broad range of initiatives, the amount of PLN 3,501,217.16 was spent to run 51 projects in 2020.

In the “Sports and Recreation” area, the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation supports all actions for the development of physical activity of young people undertaken by local institutions, associations and sports clubs. The cash donations provided by the Foundation enabled the purchase of sports equipment and delivery of numerous sport training courses, various tournaments and competitions, and establishment of new recreational and sports facilities, such as outdoor gyms. Moreover, some of the funds were dedicated to co-funding the organisation of summer and winter holidays for children and youth by local divisions of the Society of the Friends of Children (TPD), the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP), associations, orphanages, and churches. The participants are mainly children and youth from underprivileged, dysfunctional, and poor families, who, thanks to the Foundation’s support, have the opportunity to go to the seaside or the mountains for the first time in their lives and learn about another culture.

Sports and recreation is the area of operation for the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation which supports all sports initiatives and popularizes social attitudes and behaviours based on values propagated by physical culture and sport. In 2020, the amount of PLN 2,027,508.51 was expended on the execution of 35 projects.

The Foundation considers popularisation of physical culture and sport as well as education in preventive health care an important field of social life and therefore intends to continue activities promulgating an active and healthy lifestyle.

The “Culture and Tradition” area is a very important part of the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation’s activities, in which the Foundation supports projects cultivating mining and smelting traditions, commemorating Polish cultural and historical heritage and strengthening local cultural identity at the local, regional and national levels. The supported projects entail rescuing cultural heritage and tradition and contribute to a considerable improvement of the condition of many historic buildings, even saving some from collapse. To support culture and art, the KGHM Polska Miedź Foundation also provides financial aid to diverse artistic and cultural events organised by various associations, cultural societies, cultural centres and museums.

The Foundation respects the cultural heritage of previous generations, as it forms the basis for building identity; its overriding value is supporting traditions of communities and traditions cultivated by various social, religious and cultural groups. In 2020, it co-financed 101 projects in the area of culture and tradition with the total amount of PLN 8,130,740.31.