Brand Ignite is committed to ensuring that modern slavery or human trafficking is not taking place within our business or supply chain and working to the legislation laid down in The Modern Slavery Act 2015.

1. Scope

This policy applies across all entities or subsidiaries owned, controlled, or operated by Brand Ignite including sister brand, Ignition Rooms and to all employees, including part-time, temporary, or contract employees.

2. Policy

Brand Ignite Limited has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery. We are committed to acting in an ethical manner, with integrity and transparency in all business dealings. We are committed to creating effective systems and controls in place to safeguard against any form of modern slavery taking place within the business or our supply chain and impose those same high standards on our contractors, suppliers and other business partners.

We operate a number of internal procedures and practices to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner. These include:

Recruitment procedure

Eligibility to work in the UK checks are conducted on all employees, including but not limited to checking an original passport, birth certificate or other qualifying documentation.

Training practice

Training on this statement, and on the risk our business faces from modem slavery in our supply chains, forms part of the induction process for all individuals who work for Brand Ignite, and regular training will be provided as necessary. We encourage employees at every level to take an active role in our compliance with our legal and ethical obligations and encourage employees to raise concerns about any issue or suspicion of modern slavery in any parts of our business or supply chain at the earliest possible stage.

Procurement procedures

We operate strict procurement procedures, requiring suppliers to comply with all applicable laws and standards, including those which relate to the Modern Slavery Act:

• We expect our suppliers to have suitable policies and processes in place within their own businesses to prevent child labour, modern slavery and human trafficking and to cascade those policies to their own suppliers;
• Undertake a continuous review of assurance information from existing suppliers and partners and follow up where relevant;
• Include appropriate terms in our contractual documentation with suppliers
  Obliging suppliers and their contractors, suppliers and employees to comply with the Modern Slavery Act;
• Reserving the right for Brand Ignite to audit suppliers and their contractors, where we consider it appropriate;
• Obliging suppliers to report to us if they are aware of or suspect slavery or human trafficking in a supply chain connected to any Brand Ignite contracts;
• Reserving the right for us to terminate the contract at any time should any instances of modern slavery come to light.

3. Roles and responsibilities

The Operations Director is responsible for maintaining the policy and providing support and advice during its implementation.

All staff are responsible for reporting all suspected or identified breaches of policy to their Line Manager in the first instance, who will then decide whether to escalate the concern.

4. Policy Compliance

Senior managers will verify compliance to this policy through various methods, but not limited to HR assessments, feedback and one-to-one meetings.
Any employee found to have violated this policy may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

5. Approval

This policy has been approved by the company management and shall be reviewed by the management review team annually.

May 2024