EDI Strategy Interim Report

GOAL 5 - Increasing diversity through the female community

Our objective:

• To raise awareness of the Construction industry as a career choice by promoting opportunities to females • To identify role models and provide mentoring for those interested in advancement • To offer work experience, traineeship and apprentice opportunities

Actions completed:

• Set up a female employee forum and invited all employees to actively engage and encourage discussion to better understand barriers to recruitment and progression and learn about how to disrupt and break through said barriers • Improved the photography on our website to promote and demonstrate our gender diversity • Reviewed our flexible working policies and ensured all roles (where possible) are offered on a flexible basis • Amended our job adverts to ensure they use inclusive language that attracts women • Reviewed and enhanced our maternity package and included a new ‘back to work bonus’ which has resulted in 100% of our females returning to work since having a baby • Audited our welfare facilities to ensure they were safe and suitable for women • Made women’s PPE available in our stores with a range of sizes • Increased our visits to female schools to encourage young women to enter our industry • Signed up to the Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering Pledge which supports initiatives and aspires to change areas such as the attraction, development and promotion of women in our company and industry • Continued to focus on addressing gender balance at a senior level and used our gender pay gap results to identify areas for improvement • Ensured that emerging talent initiatives such as our Apprenticeship programme created stretch opportunities to nurture young women. Female employees currently make up 43% of the Apprentice population • Supported and developed high performing females through our Great Leaders career development programme which includes mentoring and support activities. 35% of our successful candidates were female

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