Whitehaven Coal support a range of charities and community organisations across health, education, the environment, indigenous empowerment, regional sport and activities with a whole-of-community benefit.

In Queensland, discretionary sponsorships are assessed against Whitehaven’s Sponsorship guidelines and assessed by a committee of Whitehaven employees who live and engage regularly in Whitehaven’s communities. The Committee will review requests for sponsorships, donations and gifts in kind against the criteria outlined in our guidelines.

Applications for Whitehaven sponsorships in QLD will be advertised twice a year.

Whitehaven continue to provide support to initiatives across:

• Economic prosperity and resilience – town liveability, community services, facilities and infrastructure
• Environment – climate, environment and water (supply, drought and water treatment)
• Education, training and employment, – jobs for locals, upskilling, future of work, career pathways for local youth
• Community health and wellbeing – through services, availability of staff and liveability
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagement – support and promote initiatives that collaborate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, managed via our WHC Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)

Please note this record is for QLD.  Sponsorship for NSW can now be found here

Funding criteria

Principles governing donation and sponsorship decisions include:

• Alignment with aforementioned areas of support; 
• Potential to develop strategic partnerships with community organisations, including creation of term agreements with appropriate organisations;
• Activities deemed to have significant local, regional, state, national or international reach;
• Appropriate fit with Whitehaven Coal brand and values; 
• Relationship and connection to Whitehaven Coal and its community; 
• Potential for broad community impact; 
• Support for not-for-profit organisations; 
• Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement;
• Long-term sustainability of organisation or initiative regardless of Whitehaven support; and
• Potential to involve Whitehaven Coal employees and local Whitehaven Coal operations.

Whitehaven Coal will not support commercial, for-profit businesses or any causes that may be detrimental to Whitehaven Coal.

• Address: Whitehaven Coal Community Relations Team PO Box 600 Gunnedah 2380 NSW
• Phone: 02 6741 9300
• Email: community@whitehavencoal.com.au