Social Investment Guidelines

PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD ANY UNSOLICITED APPLICATIONS.

Unfortunately, we do not have capacity to take on any additional programmes at this stage.

We have been changing and improving our approach to social investment. We now focus on programmes, whether national or local, that are linked more closely to our business.

At a local level, our focus is on the Taranaki Region where our exploration activities are based.  Programmes that we support in the Taranaki Region include:

• Puke Ariki
• WOMAD
• Young Enterprise Scheme

At a national level, we might support programmes that help build skills needed by our industry or which tackle issues such as biodiversity or climate change. For example, our Shell Sustainability Fund provides funding grants to small and medium sized business to help them develop and implement systems that will enable them to operate in a sustainable, environmentally responsible way.

All social investment programmes should be:

1. inclusive: involving a range of stakeholder views and opinions;
2. based on community needs: and designed in consultation with local communities;
3. involving local support;
4. fit with Shell business activities;
5. based on partnerships and local implementation: with NGOs and community groups;
6. sustainable: delivering lasting benefits and be self-supporting after Shell participation ends;
7. have a measurable positive impact: socially, economically and environmentally;
8. transparent: regularly monitored and evaluated with the results clearly and openly reported;
9. able to leverage additional funding: leading to increased benefits; and
10. replicable: to accelerate the learning curve and decrease implementation costs.