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PROMPT PAYMENT
TRAINING
MODERN SLAVERY
Our target is to pay 100% of invoices within 60
We provide training, guidance and support as
We are committed to ensuring that slavery and
days. Our public reporting for 2025 shows that the
part of our onboarding process. This includes
human trafficking do not take place in any of our
average time to pay all invoices was 61 days. For
areas such as health and safety, wellbeing, quality,
operations or supply chains. Staff are trained on
invoices with a value below £5,000, we aim to pay
environmental management, with shared training
the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking
within 35 days. We continue to report monthly on
through face-to-face toolbox talks and virtual
and measures to mitigate these. Suppliers and sub-
our payment performance to ensure we continue to
training utilising a mixture of tools.
contractors are also required to acknowledge their
propagate a culture of prompt payment.
ANTI-BRIBERY & CORRUPTION
responsibility for adhering to our policy.
RESPONSIBLE SOURCING
ECOVADIS
We have in place a robust anti-bribery and
We seek to develop close, long-standing and
In 2025, the Group achieved Bronze EcoVadis
corruption policy and procedures. All staff are
mutually beneficial relationships with our
status, helping us to further manage and improve
informed of and trained in the policy to ensure they
supply chain. To become an approved supplier,
the sustainability performance of the Group and
fully understand its relevance to their role and how
organisations must complete a comprehensive
our value chain year-on-year. Our ambition for
to report any concerns.
selection process. They must also evidence
2026 is to achieve Silver status, providing more
their ability to meet the high standards we
transparency across our policies, actions and
maintain ourselves.
delivering sustainable outcomes.
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