Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

INTRODUCTION FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

Slavery and human trafficking remains a hidden blight on our global
society. We all have a responsibility to be alert to the risks, however
small, in our business and in the wider supply chain. Our
employees are alert to the risks and are expected to report their
concerns, and management are expected to act upon them.

ORGANISATION’S STRUCTURE

Timothy Charles and Company LTD, trading as (TC & Co), is an
independent Groundworks and Civil engineering company. The
head office is based at Dunnock House,Yeovil Road, East Coker,
Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 9HD

The Company has an annual turnover of approximately £8 million.

OUR BUSINESS

The principal activity of our business is Groundworks and Civil
engineering to building contractors and house builders in the
Southwest.

OUR SUPPLY CHAINS

Our supply chains includes the sourcing materials and supplies
from UK based suppliers and companies only.

OUR POLICIES ON SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or
human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our
business. Our Anti-slavery Policy reflects our commitment to acting
ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to
implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to
ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place any where
in out supply chains.

DUE DILIGENCE PROCESSES FOR SLAVERY AND HUMAN
TRAFFICKING

As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk we:

• Build long-standing relationships with local suppliers and make
  clear our expectations of business behaviour;
• Have a policy of “knowing our customer” to ensure that we are
  contracting with appropriate businesses;
• With regards to national supply chains, our point contact is
  with a UK companies and we expect these entities to have
  suitable anti-slavery and human trafficking policies and
  processes. We expect each entity in the supply chain to, at
  least, adopt ‘one-up’ due diligence on the next link in the chain.
  It is not practical for us (and every other participant in the
  chain) to have a direct relationship with all links in the supply
  chain.
  We have in place systems to encourage the reporting of
  concerns and the protection of whistle blowers.SUPPLIER ADHERENCE TO OUR VALUES AND ETHICS
  We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. We
  expect all those in our supply chain and contractors to comply
  with our values.TRAINING
  To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern
  slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our
  business, we provide briefings to our Directors and employees.OUR EFFECTIVENESS IN COMBATING SLAVERY AND
  HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  We use the following key performance indicators (KPIs) to
  measure how effective we have been to ensure that slavery
  and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of our
  business or supply chains:
  • Completion of audits by Directors
  • Use of staff monitoring and payroll systems
  • Level of communication and personal contact with next link in
    the supply chain and their understanding of, and compliance
    with, our expectations.
  • This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the
    Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our slavery and
    human trafficking statement for the current financial year.

T.C. Smith - Director