# Modern Slavery Act Statement

We oppose slavery and human trafficking in all its forms. We are committed to improving our practices to combat modern slavery in our business by taking steps, as far as we are able, to ensure that our supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking. This statement sets out the steps we have taken in the financial year ending 31 March 2025 to understand potential modern slavery risks within our business structure and supply chain, and as well as the steps taken to eradicate these risks.

## About us

We are an information technology consultancy delivering standout products and services to businesses across a range of sectors.

Our annual turnover is under £36 million. Although we are not required to make a modern slavery statement under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, we are making this voluntary statement to show our commitment to ethical trading principles and to set out the steps we are taking to identify risks and tackle modern slavery and human trafficking in our business and in our supply chains.

Our supply chains mainly consist of the engagement of personnel and the purchasing of goods and services to support the delivery of our services and the running of our business, such as IT and software, maintenance and facilities, and equipment and materials. The majority of our suppliers are UK businesses.

## Our commitment to ethical trading

We are committed to ethical trading principles and to acquiring goods and services without harm to others.

## Due diligence and risk assessment

In general, potential areas of risk in this area for our business include recruitment, engagement of contractors, security services, food and catering services, construction/building services, cleaning, stationery and office equipment, IT hardware and software.

To help identify and monitor the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain we vet suppliers to ensure that they are committed to ethical labour practices and we ensure anti-slavery and human trafficking provisions are included in our contracts with our suppliers.

## Effectiveness in combating slavery and human trafficking

We use the following key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure how effective we have been at ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of our business or supply chains:

- The percentage of suppliers and sub-contractors vetted for ethical labour practices.
- The number of reported breaches in the past year.
- Percentage of staff receiving training on identifying and addressing the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our business and supply chains.

## 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 training to our staff.

## Further steps

Following a review of the effectiveness of the steps we have taken in the last financial year to ensure that there is no slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains we intend to take the following further steps to combat slavery and human trafficking:

- We commit to better understand our supply chains and work towards greater transparency and responsibility towards people working on them.
- Adequate resources will be made available to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place within our business or within our supply chains to the best of our knowledge.
- We will also raise awareness with our employees and contractors to ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business.
- We will more closely monitor our supply chains and take appropriate action if necessary.

**This voluntary slavery and human trafficking statement is made for the Financial Year ended 31st March 2025.**  
**Director Burendo Ltd**  
**22nd April 2025**  
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