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Community Relationships

Contents

About This Report

HSE Performance

Social Performance

Economic Performance

Looking Ahead

Further information

Our people principles

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We recognise a strong obligation to contribute to the communities in which we operate. We encourage and support employees at all levels who undertake community work, providing resources and paid time off, when business needs allow, to participate in projects. We support a range of charitable causes, mainly at local level, by donations of money, gifts in kind and employee time.

In 2007 our direct donations to charitable and community activities totalled $1,603,000, of which $500,000 went to the Smith & Nephew Foundation to fund research by individual nurses. Smith & Nephew made no political contributions in 2007.

Our major manufacturing sites have significant community programmes, which operate throughout the year, targeted in their local area. A number of examples of these activities are covered in the following pages.