IMI supports only recognized or established charities and community organizations, with a preference given to those with some relevance to the company through location or cause. The Group does not make donations to political parties.

IMI supports many charities but is particularly associated with three. These are:

• Care for Children , a charity that exists to relieve hardship, distress and sickness in abandoned and orphaned children in China by placing them with foster and adoptive families.
• CIDA Foundation , which provides students from underprivileged backgrounds across South Africa with a virtually free higher education specialising in business studies to create a new generation of entrepreneurs to stimulate economic and social development.
• DebRA , a charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).