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In 2019, our Million Makers fundraising team Fortitude raised £389,000 in 6 months - a record breaking amount. But our support wasn’t limited to fundraising, in addition we had:

• Seven Ascential Executives travelled to the UK regions from Glasgow to Belfast to join the judging committees for the 2019 Educational Achiever of the Year, also returning to attend the Regional Awards Ceremony for the successful Nominees.
• Support for young young entrepreneurial members of The Prince's Trust giving business and mentoring opportunities to develop their business.
• Involvement in the “Get Hired” programme and “Get Started” programmes, giving >5 opportunities to young people from these programmes.
• Our CSR Ambassador, Vicky Ogden, won the Outstanding Individual Award at the Trust’s Partnership Awards. Ascential was also nominated for All Round Hero for the company under 5,000 employees from The Partnership Awards.
• Support for The EXPLORE programme, which offers group activities and one-to-one support to develop skills and confidence. Duncan Painter, our CEO, Senior Exec members Natasha Christie-Miller and Sean Harley along with CSR Ambassador Vicky Ogden all visited the centre with Ascential’s video team filming to encourage awareness.
• In 2019 we participated again in The Prince’s Trust Million Makers competition. This is a Dragons’ Den-style fundraising challenge which sees teams of employees from companies across the UK competing to raise £10,000 or more over a period of six months. Team Fortitude, our 2019 Million Makers team, raised £389,000 in six months.
• Ascential is a supporter of The Prince's Trust LGBTQI+ group and also the BAME project. Diversity and Inclusion discussions are all a part of our involvement.

MediaLink raised over $240,000 in 2019, supporting a wide variety of charitable causes both inside and outside of the marketing industry. The range of emphasis spans social movements supporting disenfranchised groups, child advocacy, cures for chronic diseases and patronage of the arts. MediaLink’s focus remains on causes important to the marketing industry at large as well as those important to our clients and staff.

Every year, selection is based on historical precedent as well as a handful of new charities focused on timely issues that emerge as vital to the health of the marketing industry, such as equality in the workforce.

Within the marketing industry, MediaLink executives dedicate service in the form of board membership to several key not-for-profit industry organisations like the Advertising Council, Inc. and the Paley Center for Media, in addition to providing charitable donations. The Advertising Council, Inc. in particular is allocated a high annual budget for its focus on public service communications that raise awareness and inspire action on numerous causes.

WGSN ​is a proud partner of LGBT+ charity Just Like Us. The charity is focused on supporting young LGBT+ people, ensuring that they hear powerful positive messages about being LGBT+ from other LGBT+ young people. It is building a national network of university student volunteers, giving them the skills they need to communicate with impact, and sending them into secondary schools to share their stories, challenge stereotypes, and explain why LGBT+ equality is important.

Colleagues from the WGSN Content, Mindset, Sales and Product teams w​ork ​with the charity to deliver presentation skills to Ambassadors recruited from universities across the UK. ​Thanks to our crack team of seasoned public speakers​ ​from across WGSN,​ the​ college-aged young people​, having completed the training,​ felt ​more ​comfortable to share their own stories than ever before.

Through WGSN’s industry contacts, the charity ​have ​gained access to an ASOS supplier, who kindly took on the printing of a t-shirt order, offering Just Like Us a significant cost saving on its previous order. WGSN also secured the services of high-profile Instagrammer and Fendi collaborator Reilly, who agreed to allow Just Like Us to use one of his artworks for printing on t-shirts.

The dedication of our people is at the heart of Groundsure’s success. Our success in the market is mirrored by support for various charities and organisations making a positive social impact.

Groundsure continue to develop their “HOT Mapping” around the world. HOT mapping is collaboration mapping for humanitarian aid across the world - reaching those in need through creating maps. Various NGOs and charities across the world will request mapping and set up projects on the HOT website - these can range from mapping individual properties to residential areas, as well as mapping roads and paths - all from aerial imagery. This mapping is then used to help improve access to healthcare, to estimate populations for outbreaks and emergencies following medical or natural disasters, as well as helping preparedness for future possible events. Groundsure ran eight sessions in 2019, helping projects from mapping buildings in Uganda to help fight the spread of Ebola still happening in parts of Uganda and DRC, to mapping buildings and roads in Papua New Guinea.

Code Bar is a monthly event held in Brighton to provide free code training to young people. The workshop aims to teach programming in a safe and supportive environment, allowing experienced practitioners to share their knowledge and coach our students. In 2019 35 students came to the Groundsure office and improved their coding skills with members of the Tech team.

Ascential Pride, our first LGBTQ+ network, was also founded by the Groundsure team.

We encourage all our people to take one day per year to volunteer with a charity of their choice. Over the past two years, examples have included our Hong Kong office volunteering on a Nature Reserve WWF Wetlands, and the Glenigan team in Bournemouth have supported local food banks.

Staff from Ascential, DeHavilland, and WGSN also took part in the “Let’s Get Cooking” initiative for the Bloomsbury Community Centre, which provides a hot three course lunch for elderly and homeless people. And our UK-based people also supported The Harington Scheme, a garden centre for young people with learning difficulties, with two groups from across the business working together weeding, clearing, pruning and planting for a full day.

See It Be It是一项量身定制的Cannes Lions倡议，旨在加快高潜力的资深创意女性的职业发展，改变机构创意部门女性领导人的比例。在2019年再次成功运行。该策划项目于2014年启动，重点是为未来的女性创意领袖提供成功和发展所需的工具和支持网络。2019年，See It Be It再次与Spotify合作，这一品牌合作带来了一系列全球活动。通过它的活动，现在已经有4000名女性在全球范围内参与。为了促进陪审团的多样性和性别平衡，2019年的陪审团成员中女性比例为48%，高于2018年的46%、2017年的43%和2016年的40%。

Now in its second year, the Money20/20 Rise Up programme advocates for gender equality in the financial services and FinTech industry. The programme is now global, launching for the first time in both Asia and Europe in 2019, and returning for a second year in the USA. During each programme, a cohort of 35 women are chosen to take part in an invitation-only curated agenda, designed to give them actionable insights and skills through bespoke content sessions, one-to-one mentoring and networking opportunities with respected industry leaders. In 2019 Rise Up has inspired women from 51 countries, across six continents, to apply to be a part of the programme. In 2019, Rise Up took it one step further and launched the ‘Breaking the 19’ campaign, challenging organisations and their leadership to reduce the 19% pay gap in the US.

2019 saw Retail Week’s Be Inspired programme cement its reputation as one of the most influential and impactful diversity initiatives in the UK. The programme offers women in retail access to senior female leaders in the industry, to address the gender inequality at boardroom level.

2019’s attendance increased by 55%, with speakers including the President of TJX Europe and former Rugby World Cup Champion Maggi Alphonsi, delivering an exceptional NPS score of 75. 2019 also saw the launch of Be Inspired Stories, a monthly podcast amplifying the initiative’s message to a global audience.

Cannes Lions operates two awards as part of Lions for Good: The Sustainable Development Goals Lions, and Glass: The Lion for Change. Cannes Lions actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals through the Sustainable Development Goals Lions. In 2019, the Grand Prix was won by The Lion’s Share Fund, and proceeds of €279,000 from the Award have been distributed to support the Fund’s wildlife conservation and animal welfare programmes. Glass: The Lion for Change is the award that celebrates culture-shifting creativity.

Launched at the 2019 Cannes Lions Festival, Goal’s House, a partnership with Deloitte Digital and SAP, brought industry leaders together to engage in high-level discussions. Conversations focused on scaling impact to meet the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, helping to end poverty, protect the planet, fight diseases, and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. The Change for Good Hackathon was a partnership between Cannes Lions, Huge and Amazon that teamed up with Earth Day Network and the Earth Challenge 2020 global citizen science initiative. At the 2019 Festival, they invited agencies to design technological solutions that can help citizens solve key environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

Our Events Operations team launched an internal Sustainability Committee in 2018, to focus efforts and share ideas to make our events as green as possible. We are working more closely than ever with event production companies and venues, checking their recycling and sustainability policies and asking for reports and existing policies. We are continually striving to create greener and more sustainability-conscious events.

In 2019 we did the most we’ve ever done towards this goal. Money20/20 Europe donated leftover catering to the Salvation Army and a soup kitchen, and provided a service where stand holders can donate or recycle anything from their stand post-show.

At Cannes Lions reducing waste and improving environmental credentials was paramount to the 2019 event: every delegate was offered a reusable water bottle and water bottle refill stations were placed throughout the venue; lanyards and badge wallets were made from recycled plastics, and all event bags were biodegradable, made in 100% carbon neutral factories. The Festival worked closely with the City of Cannes to ensure that the award-winning initiatives implemented throughout the municipality were incorporated into Festival activities.

Established in 2017 and continuously evolving, WGSN’s Sustainability Board is a dedicated steering group of in-house, cross-industry, sustainability ambassadors. They ensure that our research and reporting enable clients to improve their environmental contribution and shift to circular design within the industries we service.

The 20 members include representatives across WGSN; Fashion, Insight, Lifestyle and Interiors, Food and Drink, Beauty, Mindset (consultancy), Marketing, Client Services, Data and Coloro, with a full spectrum of editorial seniority across colour, materials, interiors, retail, fashion, consumer insights, food and drink, marketing, automotive, electronics and beauty.

The group meets on a monthly basis to create internal learning sessions and formulate editorial strategy, working on key initiatives throughout the year to assess areas for improvement.

The aim is simple; we use our position as the industry’s leading trend forecaster to help our clients champion sustainability, highlighting the opportunities and solutions available, sharing insight and data to ensure they adopt, adapt and innovate in a sustainable way. Equipping them with the tools to navigate the many challenges presented by this daunting evolution of all our industries.

Sustainability remains a key focus for consumers and brands, despite the turbulence caused by Covid-19. Indeed, as the climate crisis becomes an emergency, it’s vital that the industries we serve continue to invest and innovate in this area.

WGSN is investing and innovating, our working group will activate key initiatives through 2020 and 2021. These include: an audit of our standards across all verticals, the identification of new content opportunities and information gaps, a Sustainability Bulletin revamp (evolving a much-valued monthly report to ensure information is accessible and actionable for all industries we serve), an internal- and external-facing glossary of key terms to provide a key educational reference for our clients, new hero reports that features in-depth analysis on how our clients can tackle and prioritise sustainability, promoting a more holistic approach to product development, retail and consumption – particularly in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and its long-term fiscal impact.

Our environmental footprint significantly decreased in 2018 due to the sale of our Exhibitions business. As a data-led information business, we now have a reduced direct environmental impact. We work hard to ensure that our existing events have as low an environmental impact as they can and that we use the event platforms we create to engage the wider industry on sustainability issues. You can read more about our approach on page 51 of our annual report.

In our office buildings Ascential works with our landlords to ensure installation of energy efficient low-temperature hot water, water-efficient low-flush toilets, low-energy lighting and low-power technology across all its offices. We recycle in all of our offices, and promote recycling.

We continue to focus on digital content, greatly reducing our paper consumption. Even though print requirements for the business have further declined, we optimise paper efficiency through use of best-in-class printing equipment and technology.

As a global business, there is a need for our people to travel to our various global offices. However, we do encourage all our people to work collaboratively using the technology available, reducing the need to fly. We use a range of online communication tools, to better support our people as they collaborate across the globe. Full details of our direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions are set out in the Directors’ Report on page 53 of our Annual Report.

没有任何形式的强迫、非自愿或债务抵押劳动，包括奴役或贩卖人口。没有15岁以下的工人，或者其他更高没有达到当地法定离校年龄的工人。支持使用符合所有法律和条例的合法工作场所的学徒计划。

工人不分彼此，有权自由结社、参加或不参加工会、争取代表权和参加工人委员会，并有权依照当地法律进行集体谈判。

不论身体素质或条件(包括怀孕)、性别、宗教(或没有宗教信仰)、政治观点、国籍、性取向、年龄或种族背景如何，都有平等的机会和待遇。支持同工同酬。反对对雇员和雇员之间的歧视或恐吓，包括一切形式的身体和心理威胁。

我们绝不容忍任何形式的贪污、贿赂、诈骗、敲诈勒索，而且我们的业务运作方式必须避免利益冲突。

支持公平经营、宣传和竞争。

尊重和保护知识产权、数据和机密信息，以保护知识产权、数据和机密信息，防止其丢失和未经授权的使用、披露、修改或访问。我们仅按照授权收集、处理知识产权机密信息和有关数据。

我们对包括自然灾害、恐怖主义或网络攻击在内的任何形式的业务中断都已做好备案()。经常对风险进行评估，制定适当的控制措施，并定期进行测试。

必须申领、保存及更新所有有关品质、健康、安全及环境的许可证、牌照及注册，并须遵守运作及申报的规定。为雇员、访客、承办商、社区及环境的健康、安全及福利作出适当的安排。定期评估健康、安全和环境风险，并考虑到业界和任何具体危害的普遍知识，制定适当的控制措施。