Executive Grapevine International Limited is a lead generation and digital marketing solutions business providing access to the largest and most engaged HR audience in the market
We seek excellence in every aspect of our business and are committed to the highest standards of professionalism, ethics and integrity. We are committed to conducting our business in a lawful manner and this includes engaging with our suppliers to support them in working against modern slavery.
As required by the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”), this statement describes the steps which Executive Grapevine to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any of our supply chains, or in any part of our own business.
We are a Limited Liability company, based in the UK and registered at Companies House. Our registered address is Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL8 6HG.
Our key suppliers are the businesses which help us to run our premises, such as cleaning and security providers, or who supply us with the technology we need to deliver our marketing services to our clients as well as recruitment agencies who provide us with staff and business services staff. We tend to foster long-term relationships with these first-tier suppliers with regular renewals of contracts to ensure we actively reassess their services and to help us work with suppliers to strengthen their approach.
We also avoid making demands of our suppliers that might lead to them violating human rights. For example, we require our catering, cleaning and security suppliers to pay their personnel, who work at our premises, a salary which is equivalent (at least) to the Living Wage.
We meet with each of our key suppliers at least annually and, among other things, address their approach to slavery and human trafficking at those review meetings.
We expect all our suppliers to have fair employment practices. We only work with those who conduct their businesses ethically and are able to demonstrate this. Any activity which we deem in breach of this standard by a supplier, including not having fair employment practices which prohibit modern slavery, may result in us terminating our arrangements with the supplier.
All external suppliers are vetted by at least two members of the Senior Leadership Team. To ensure that they are reviewed for not only the offences in the Act, but also mitigate any potential risks and establish review points.
All members of Executive Grapevine have access to an EAP scheme which includes gathering advice on how to spot signs of human slavery and practical measures to tackle the problem within the workplace.
We try to identify risks to workers in our supply chain by regularly refreshing the due diligence we carry out on our key suppliers before we engage them. When selecting our suppliers, price is not our only driver. We are committed to buying quality products and services from ethical suppliers and part of measuring this involves assessing the approach a potential supplier takes to its people and the workers in its own supply chain.
As well as our commitment to only work with supplier that adopt fair employment practices, we also reflect these same standards upon ourselves in relation to our own employees. This is codified in our internal staff handbook. This provides information about how we approach our day-to-day activities and the principles in it are covered in inductions for new staff and reinforced through training. The standards in the Code are reflected in our policies and procedures and we endeavour to embed them in everything we do.
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