S29 Consultancy is fully committed to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact, covering Human Rights, Labour, Environment, and Anti-Corruption.

This annual Communications on Progress demonstrates our commitment and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. We also commit to sharing this information with our stakeholders through primary communication channels.

We are proud to be taking positive action towards making a better world by 2030. We will continue to share our progress with our stakeholders regularly and take any opportunity to work with our clients and suppliers to do the same.

Yours sincerely

Kendal Heron
Owner
S29 Consultancy

• We place a high value on our people and strive to be a place of work where employees are respected and can develop in an environment of inclusion, diversity and integrity.

We do not tolerate forced, bonded, or compulsory labour, human trafficking, or other kinds of slavery within our operations or supply chain. We are committed to taking appropriate steps to ensure that everyone working for S29 Consultancy can work in an environment where their fundamental rights and freedoms are respected.

Whilst we consider ourselves low risk of the potential of slavery or trafficking, we communicate our modern slavery policy through primary communication channels with our stakeholders. We also have a supplier screening form which questions our supplier's commitment to human rights within their organisation.

We take pride in treating our employees fairly and lawfully, including health and safety, and we have high ethical standards of honesty, fairness and integrity. Our company policy on respecting and supporting Human Rights is detailed within our code of conduct in the staff handbook.

We operate a Supplier Code of Conduct, used for all new major suppliers or in re-tendering, which addresses the labour rights issues associated with modern slavery and sets out the values and standards we expect of our suppliers.

We have included a declaration to confirm support of the Code or where they have their codes in place and sought confirmation that they comply with the same standards that we adhere to.

• Our Employee Handbook requires us to act ethically, and we expect employees to always comply with legal requirements, putting our values into practice in everything we do.

In 2022 we held a workshop course for our employees on the importance of Human Rights in the workplace, including using pronouns. An anonymous Human Rights Employee survey followed this in the S29 Consultancy workplace.

We plan to implement the following for 2022.
• Inclusion and Diversity strategy

In 2022 we conducted an employee satisfaction survey and followed up on all responses. There were no reports graded as unfavourable from any of our employees

We also monitor all supplier responses to our supplier screening form and operate a scoring system based on responses. We follow up with all new and current line 1 suppliers every three months to monitor any positive or negative changes to evaluate their scores.

The Culture of S29 Consultancy is paramount to our business, and we clearly define how the company treats our people and how they will treat each other. This allows us to interact and work together to make the business successful.

Our values, Mission and Vision statement are clearly communicated to our employees. The staff handbook also sets out our policies, procedures and rules. The grievance procedure, which outlines the steps our employees can take, is also included. S29 Consultancy also upholds the freedom of association and the recognition of the right to collective bargaining as detailed in the staff handbook

It is of the utmost importance to demonstrate that S29 Consultancy is committed to our employee's health and safety. We have a practical, systematic approach that controls health risks and protects our staff.

Formal and informal training regularly reinforces the culture of safety and the role every employee has in supporting each other's health and safety.

S29 Consultancy implement a safe and secure working environment is key to our employees' well-being and extends to collecting and storing personal data from our employees and clients.

We implement a living wage policy for any new or existing employees of S29 Consultancy.

All staff members must sign an agreement that they have read the staff handbook and confirmed confirmation of the ethos and ethics of the company. HR records show 100% of our staff have signed that they have read the staff handbook and are in agreement with the terms.

We document all health and safety training undertaken by our staff. 100% of our staff have received level 1 health and safety training.

We record any health and safety incidents in our health and safety record system. There have been zero incidents recorded for 2021-2022.
There have been zero submissions for our grievance procedures for 2021-2022.

Evaluation of our employee and client records occurs every six months. There are strict procedures to treat data to the GDPR standards, such as removing records if no longer required. The evaluation process is monitored and recorded by HR. The last review in April 2022 documents that data storage adheres to GDPR standards.
All wages are regularly reviewed, compared to living wage rates, and adjusted if necessary.

We have 100% of our employees in line with the living wage.

Our ethos is to support sustainability by reducing our impact on the environment. By applying green processes to the workplace, we have reduced our waste and supported the need for social change.

The way we operate and the changes we make are regularly reviewed and supported by all our staff.

We have demonstrated our commitment to climate action by joining the SME Climate Hub and are committed to achieving Net Zero by 2030.

We recycle and reduce our office waste and monitor and record our progress.

We monitor our water usage and reduce where possible by water-saving initiatives such as reminders in the toilets and canteen facilities to adhere to water-saving actions.

We review our purchasing to ensure that we use recycled or reused products, such as office supplies.

Our emissions for scopes 1 and 2 have been calculated using the GHG Protocol Corporate standard for accounting and reporting.

We are calculating our scope 3 emissions using procedures such as the GHG Protocol Corporate standard for accounting and reporting, supplier communication, and surveys.

Our Scope 1 and 2 emissions have been documented, which has given us our baseline to set our Net Zero target in line with the SBTI science-based targets to reach Net Zero by 2030.

We document wastepaper waste removal, which has been reduced from 2019 by 80%. This is due to the efforts of office staff and our policy request to clients that correspondence is not produced in a hard copy format unless specifically requested. We recorded from 2021 to 2022 that 1% of our client base specifically asked for quotations in a hard copy format.

Our water use for sewage and water supply is recorded using account billing data and is closely monitored for changes in usage. Usage results are yet to be evaluated, but the data indicates a positive difference.

All purchase orders, particularly for office supplies, are now documented on whether a recycled or reused alternative is available. If so, what is the price and quality differentiation and whether a recycled or reused option was purchased? Data results are yet to be evaluated, but several recycled, reused, or lower energy alternatives have been purchased.

S29 Consultancy supports the UNGC principles on anti-corruption. We work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.

We assess that as an organisation, we are at low- risk for anti-corruption. We implement anti-corruption policies, mainly when dealing with suppliers and any payment procedures are permanently adhered to by the accounts department.

Our staff handbook includes our policy on anti-corruption, and we have a system in place for whistle-blowing for any violation of this policy.

We have a system for employees to report back if they suspect any wrongdoing concerning anti-corruption, as outlined in our staff handbook.

No incidents have been reported since the system was implemented.