modern slavery policy statement 2024

This statement is made pursuant to s.54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and sets out the steps that Ten Thousand Hours has taken and is continuing to take, to ensure that modern slavery or human trafficking is not taking place within our business or supply chain.

Modern slavery encompasses slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced labour. Ten Thousand Hours has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery. We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity and transparency in all business dealings and to putting effective systems and controls in place to safeguard against any form of modern slavery taking place within the business or our supply chain.

Our business

Ten Thousand Hours is Director-owned, and a creative events agency provider, mainly within the business to business marketing sector. Currently we operate within the UK and Europe.

Our high-risk areas

Most supply chain partners are based within UK, Europe but with those based in the Asia Pacific and emerging markets, we have already identified additional steps that we are taking to mitigate the risk in these areas by selecting to engage with best in class providers.

Our policies

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

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• Anti-Slavery policy, Code of Conduct policy.

• Anti-slavery policy. This policy sets out the organisation’s stance on modern slavery and explains how employees can identify any instances of this and where they can go for help.

• Code of Conduct. This code explains the manner in which we behave as an organisation and how we expect our employees and suppliers to act.

Our suppliers

Ten Thousand Hours maintains a preferred supplier list. We conduct due diligence on all suppliers before allowing them to become a preferred supplier. This due diligence includes an online search to ensure that any organisation has never been convicted of offenses relating to modern slavery and on-site audits which include a review of working conditions. Our anti-slavery policy forms part of our contract with all suppliers and they are required to confirm that no part of their business operations contradicts this policy. A risk assessment will be carried out when dealing with any new suppliers from any country.

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• In addition to the above, as part of our contract with suppliers, we require that they confirm to us that:

• They have taken steps to eradicate modern slavery within their business

• They hold their own suppliers to account over modern slavery

• For UK based suppliers, they pay their employees at least the national minimum wage / national living wage

• For international suppliers, they pay their employees any prevailing minimum wage applicable within their country of operations

• We may terminate the contract at any time should any instances of modern slavery come to light

Training

We regularly review with our project leads and independent operators project planning arrangements for signs of modern slavery and what to do if they suspect that it is taking place within our supply chain.

Our performance indicators

We will know the effectiveness of the steps that we are taking to ensure that slavery and/or human trafficking is not taking place within our business or supply chain if:

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• No reports are received from employees, the public, or law enforcement agencies to indicate that modern slavery practices have been identified.