EDI Strategy Interim Report

GOAL 8 - Communicating our performance, impact and sharing best practice

Our objective:

To deliver regular, transparent and accurate reporting and sharing our progress in creating an equal opportunities environment that allows every member of society the same chance to be their very best by contributing to our story.

Actions completed:

• Set up an EDI Champions meeting where the forum leads and other key stakeholders such as HR, Marketing, Procurement & Corporate Social Responsibility review any issues highlighted at the forums, our targets and any lessons learned. There have been 16 EDI champion meetings to date • Established a baseline to determine our current position against our goals and report regularly on the efforts we employ to reach the goals, our success and the challenges we face • Set up employee forums to give our people a voice to share concerns or challenges and come up with ideas to make our business better. There have been over 24 EDI forums to date • Delivered a Mental Health week with different initiatives for employees to join, which resulted in the business winning the CECA Southern’s Workplace Wellbeing Award • Worked with external ‘subject matter’ experts who helped advise on objectives and actions • Taken part in collaboration and sharing best practice events with peers and clients. We have taken part in 6 EDI specific events to date • Participated in industry data collection exercise with the Supply Chain Sustainability School

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