Statement for Financial Year 2024/25
Scope/Document Purpose
This policy applies to all employees, third parties, suppliers and contractors who provide services to, or on behalf of eurochange Ltd.
Modern slavery encompasses slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced labour. It is illegal, unethical and incompatible with modern business practices.
eurochange Ltd has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery. We are committed to acting ethically, and with integrity and transparency, in all business dealings, and to putting effective systems and controls in place, to safeguard against any form of modern slavery taking place within the business or our supply chain.
This statement is made pursuant to Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”) and sets out the steps that eurochange Ltd (MLR number 12117902, registered office address Essex house, Rutherford Close, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2EF) has taken during its financial year 1st July 2023 to 30th June 2024, and is continuing to take, to mitigate the risks of modern slavery or human trafficking taking place within our business or supply chains.
eurochange Ltd operates a variety of financial services products within the UK which includes travel currency, international payments and remittance services. Our portfolio includes a foreign currency branch network of over 240 branches and an online ordering service. We employ a variety of employees as part of our business operations which includes but is not limited to, managerial, retail branch team members and retail support staff.
We train our employees on the risks of human trafficking, forced labour, child labour and modern slavery to ensure compliance and clearly communicate that we expect every employee to take responsibility for reporting any concerns that they have under this policy.
Our training is mandatory to enable us to reduce business risk of non-compliance, with refresher training also being completed annually.
All employees have access to a whistleblowing gateway to encourage reporting of any concerns or breaches. Quarterly testing is also completed to ensure this gateway is operational.
We operate a number of internal policies to ensure compliance with applicable laws and that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner. Relevant policies include, but are not limited to:
- Recruitment and Selection Policy: We operate a robust recruitment policy, which includes conducting eligibility to work in the UK screening, for all employees to safeguard against human trafficking or individuals being forced to work against their will.
- Whistleblowing Policy: We operate a whistleblowing policy so that all employees can raise concerns about how colleagues are being treated, or practices within our business or supply chain that are being conducted outside of expected behaviour, ensuring their protection without fear of reprisals.
- Anti-Money Laundering Policy: Money laundering has significant risk to our organisation and is often used to finance criminal activities. We have the appropriate responsible persons in place and train all our employees on the risks of money laundering.
- Code of Conduct: This code explains the manner in which we behave as an organisation, and how we expect our employees and suppliers to act. We expect both our employees and suppliers to promote and act in an honest and ethical conduct, ensuring they are compliant with applicable laws and regulations whilst acting with care and competence.
We review our policies at regular intervals, to ensure that we remain compliant, and pro-active in our approach to modern slavery.
Our Code of Conduct states that we will conduct our business, and expect our suppliers to conduct theirs, ethically and legally.
We monitor and assess our supply chain at the point of engagement, and re-engagement, to identify high risk areas, where there is a greater chance of forced labour and, where high risk areas are identified, we take steps to mitigate the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking in these areas.
This assessment takes into consideration the mode and method of operation, the country or countries of operation and origin, the type and quality of product supplied, and the robustness of the engaged parties internal control policies, and other factors, known to provide an indication of the risk of modern slavery within the supply chain.
We will reject suppliers who have criminal convictions arising from offences related to modern slavery.
eurochange Ltd promise to;
- Pay our employees at least the national minimum wage / national living wage (as appropriate) in the UK;
- Ensure that no part of our business operation, or supply chain, is in contravention of the Modern Slavery Act 2015;
- Take steps to eradicate modern slavery within our business and supply chain;
- Hold our own suppliers to account over modern slavery;
- Terminate supplier contracts, should any instances of modern slavery at our suppliers come to light.
In agreeing to do business with eurochange Ltd, our suppliers must agree to implement these, and other provisions in their own business.
We reserve the right to visit our suppliers, without notice, to audit their operations for evidence of forced labour, human trafficking or modern slavery. This right is regularly assessed using a risk-based approach, and audits are conducted where this assessment warrants it.
Our aim is to eliminate any risk of modern slavery within our own business operation and within the supply chain.
In its next modern slavery statement, eurochange Ltd will:
- Implement reviews of supplier’s modern slavery statements to ensure alignment with ours;
- Investigate internal audits for the oversight of this policy.
This statement is made pursuant to Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes eurochange Ltd’s modern slavery statement for the financial year ending 30th June 2025.
This policy was approved by the Board of Directors and is issued on a version-controlled basis under the signature of the Managing Director (MD) Charles Stewart.
November 2024
Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy
Statement for Financial Year 2022/23
- This statement is made pursuant to Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”) and sets out the steps that the eurochange Ltd has taken, and is continuing to take, to ensure that modern slavery or human trafficking is not taking place within our business or supply chain.
- This policy applies to all employees, third parties, suppliers and contractors who provide services to, or on behalf of eurochange Ltd.
- Modern slavery encompasses slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced labour. It is illegal, unethical and incompatible with modern business practices.
- eurochange Ltd has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery. We are committed to acting ethically, and with integrity and transparency, in all business dealings, and to putting effective systems and controls in place, to safeguard against any form of modern slavery taking place within the business or our supply chain.
- eurochange Ltd operates a variety of financial services products within the UK. Our portfolio includes a foreign currency branch network and an online ordering service.
- We monitor and assess our supply chain at the point of engagement, and re-engagement, to identify high risk areas where there us a greater chance of forced labour and, where high risk areas are identified, we take steps to mitigate the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking in these areas.
- This assessment takes into consideration the mode and method of operation, the country or countries of operation and origin, the type and quality of product supplied, and the robustness of the engaged parties internal control policies, and other factors known to provide an indication of the risk of modern slavery within the supply chain.
- We operate a number of internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner. These include, but are not limited to:
8.1. Recruitment and Selection Policy: We operate a robust recruitment policy, including conducting eligibility to work in the UK screening for all employees to safeguard against human trafficking or individuals being forced to work against their will.
8.2. Whistleblowing Policy: We operate a whistleblowing policy so that all employees know that they can raise concerns about how colleagues are being treated, or practices within our business or supply chain, without fear of reprisals.
8.3. Anti-Money Laundering Policy: Money laundering has significant risk to our organisation and is often used to finance criminal activities. We have the appropriate responsible persons in place, and train all our staff on the risks of money laundering.
8.4. Code of Conduct: This code explains the manner in which we behave as an organisation and how we expect our employees and suppliers to act.
- We review our policies at regular intervals, to ensure that we remain compliant, and pro-active in our approach to modern slavery.
- We train our employees on the risks of human trafficking, forced labour, child labour and modern slavery and expect every employee to take responsibility for reporting any concerns that they have under this policy.
Our Suppliers
- Our Code of Conduct states that we will conduct our business, and expect our suppliers to conduct theirs, ethically and legally. We will reject suppliers who have criminal convictions arising from offences related to modern slavery. Eurochange Ltd promise to;
11.1. Pay our employees at least the national minimum wage / national living wage (as appropriate) in the UK;
11.2. Ensure that no part of our business operation, or supply chain, is in contravention of the Modern Slavery Act 2015;
11.3. Take steps to eradicate modern slavery within our business and supply chain;
11.4. Hold our own suppliers to account over modern slavery;
11.5. Terminate supplier contracts, should any instances of modern slavery at our suppliers come to light.
- In agreeing to do business with eurochange Ltd, our suppliers must agree to implement these, and other provisions in their own business.
- We reserve the right to visit our suppliers, without notice, to audit their operations for evidence of forced labour, human trafficking or modern slavery. This right is regularly assessed using a risk-based approach, and audits are conducted where this assessment warrants it.
This policy was approved by the Board of Directors and is issued on a version controlled basis under the signature of the Managing Director (MD).
November 2022 v 2.0