9th February 2011

To our stakeholders

I am delighted to confirm that Dulas continues to support the ten principles of the Global Compact with respect to human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption much of which has for a long time been incorporated in our documented business plan, vision and beliefs.

Our core business is the delivery of renewable energy solutions to help people not hurt them, this means our values and activities embrace the three environmental principles. We are continually encouraging the diffusion of renewable energy technologies in areas of the world with poor power supplies particularly for the use of health care.

Human rights have also always been at the heart of our business and our founding principles exclude manufacturing arms or arms related products.

Labour rights and responsible management are vital to our operations and values. We are employee owned with no external shareholdings.

We are anti-corruption and our activities are undertaken through transparent bidding processes.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to share this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,

Ian Draisey
Director, Dulas

Dulas fully and passionately supports the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

We have policies within our Business Vision documentation and Employee Handbook which support the declaration regarding:

• Grievance
• Health and Safety
• Volunteering
• Request for flexible working
• Stress

Our policies are implemented in our day to day operations. We adhere to the stringent UK and European recruitment and employment law and actively promote work-life balance through flexible family friendly working practices. Every employee carries out an annual stress test to monitor the wellbeing of employees and management reviews are regularly carried out.

Our work specifically supports Article 25 through our provision of solar power refrigeration and power systems for health care. These products enable improved health care and access to vaccinations in the most remote areas of the world.

Dulas undertakes an annual survey on stress which is fed back to departmental manager and the Board of Directors. The employee representative Personnel Group monitors and ensures that human rights are upheld.

Dulas is a worker owned company. This brings unique commitment, equality and loyalty throughout our business. We encourage and support co-operation in Dulas as well as common ownership of business ideas and processes throughout teams.

The promotion of team working is paramount. We expect every employee to be self-motivated and responsible, and to participate in decision making in a considered manner. Management style is expected to be inclusive, supportive & coaching, we expect everyone with management responsibility to have excellent listening skills and a democratic approach but not to be afraid to deal with difficult issues & show leadership.

We take this approach as we believe this is the best for profit, people and the environment.

Dulas does not use forced or compulsory labour or use child labour and ensures that this is maintained throughout our supply chain.

Dulas adheres to UK and European laws regarding discrimination.

Employee shareholders meet monthly and have full access to all company information and the executive decision making process. Dulas has a culture of consultation and participation and all employee/shareholders will contribute to major business decisions

Dulas has a human resource team in place to ensure UK legislation is implemented and supported. A democratically elected personnel group is also in place who are responsible for employee probations, appraisals and are available to assist and support with employee matters.

Standards and policies are monitored and recorded by the employee representative Personnel Group and the supply chain monitored by the Quality Group.

Dulas’ founding principle is:

“To develop solutions to engineering and environmental problems that help people and the environment”

Our core business of delivering renewable energy solutions that make a positive impact on the environment through the provision of solar, wind, hydro and biomass systems for domestic, commercial, humanitarian and public service applications around the World

Our business is driven by the global targets for carbon reduction and the opportunity to deliver life-saving technologies to areas of poor electricity supply through the provision of renewable energy technologies.

The Dulas headquarters are situated in extremely energy efficient BREEAM standard office buildings on a purpose built Eco business park in Mid-Wales. The area significantly benefits from the local employment opportunities presented by the business. The organisation’s transport policies reflect our environmental goals and location next to a mainline railway station ensures that car journeys can be minimised.

The whole business is dedicated to the installation and facilitation of wind farms, individual wind turbines, environmentally sensitive run-of-river hydro schemes, biomass heating systems and solar PV systems for homes, businesses and remote, off-grid applications.

Dulas has attained the Level 2 Green Dragon Standard, which is a pan-Wales environmental standard that incorporates appropriate elements of ISO14001.

The organisation has installed or facilitated the installation of over 350MW of renewable energy systems.

The Dulas business vision document states that:

We are a highly ethical business,
and that we specifically exclude trade with arms or arms related products.

Dulas is against corruption and supports the UN convention against corruption.

As an ethical business Dulas ensures that our business interactions do not infer any type of corruption. The organisation regularly bids for work through transparent tender processes and framework agreements.

Dulas disciplinary procedure clearly states that the acceptance of bribes or incentives of any sort is misconduct and appropriate action will be taken.

Departmental teams monitor business interactions to ensure that ethical business practices are maintained.