Introduction

This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement is a response to Section 54(1), Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act

2015 and relates to actions and activities for the financial year ending 31 March 2025.

SWC Grounds ('the Company', 'we', 'us' or 'our') is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking violations in its

own operations, its supply chain, and its products. We have zero-tolerance towards slavery and require our supply chain to

comply with our values.

Organisational Structure

SWC Grounds and has business operations in the United Kingdom.

We operate in the Grounds Maintenance sector. The nature of our supply chains is as follows: We work with a number of

key direct suppliers, who provide us with goods, such as equipment for our services, such as outsourced chemicals,

hardware, equipment’s/ machinery, IT software and marketing services

For more information about the Company, please visit our website: https://www.sw-constructionandgrounds.co.uk.

Policies

We operate a number of internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner.

These include the following:

Recruitment and selection policy - We conduct checks on all prospective employees to verify that they are eligible

to work in the UK. Certain roles require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where employees may be

working with vulnerable people.

Procurement policy - We want to make sure that potential suppliers are committed to ensuring that slavery and

human trafficking is not taking place within their own supply chains. Our procurement policy and supporting

procedures set out controls and checks undertaken to help verify this

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We make sure our suppliers are aware of our policies and adhere to the same standards.

Due Diligence

As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains, we

have adopted the following due diligence procedures:

Internal supplier audits.

Our due diligence procedures aim to:

Identify and action potential risks in our business and supply chains.

Monitor potential risks in our business and supply chains

Reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our business and supply chains.

Risk and Compliance

The Company has evaluated the nature and extent of its exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in

its UK supply chain through:

Evaluating the slavery and human trafficking risks of each new supplier.

Reviewing on a regular basis all aspects of the supply chain based on supply chain mapping.

We do not consider that we operate in a high-risk environment because The business operates in this risk level environment

because the majority of our supply chain is based in the UK and in low-risk industries, such as services

.

We do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains. Where there is evidence of failure to comply with

our policies and procedures by any of our suppliers, we will require that supplier to remedy the non-compliance.

Effectiveness

The Company uses Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure its effectiveness and ensure that slavery and human

trafficking is not taking place in its business and supply chains. These KPIs are as follows:

We will contact suppliers to enquire about their modern slavery practices every 12 months.

We will train our staff about modern slavery issues and increase awareness within the Company.

We will carry out a regular audit of suppliers - 100% of suppliers each year.

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Training Staff

The Company requires its staff to complete training and ongoing refresher courses on slavery and human trafficking. The

Company’s training covers:

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The statement was approved by the board of directors.

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Stephen Widman, Director

SWC Grounds