艾盛集团(Ascential)热衷于教育,帮助年轻人在生活中有一个更好的开始。这就是为什么我们是王子信托基金的黄金赞助人,在过去的三年里我们已经为该慈善机构筹集了超过100万英镑。
我们与王子信托基金有着积极和有影响力的关系——除了赞助英国和爱尔兰百万创造者挑战和重要的筹款支持,我们还每年赞助年度教育成就奖。2018年的获奖者Jaidah Thomas获得了3个月的戛纳电影节全薪工作经验,其中包括2018年6月在戛纳电影节现场工作两周。更多关于Jaidah的故事,以及王子信托基金对她旅程的影响,请在这里和通过上面的视频了解。
2019年,我们的百万创造者(Million Makers)筹款团队在6个月内筹集了38.9万英镑,打破了记录。但我们的支持并不局限于筹款,除此之外,我们还有:
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:
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 work 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.
Ascential is passionate about promoting equality across our industry and beyond. Learn more about our initiatives driving diversity and equality below.
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.
我们致力于做出更好的选择,帮助我们为一个更绿色的世界做出贡献。了解更多关于我们正在进行的举措。
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.
我们的供应商、合作伙伴和其他提供货物或服务的第三方对我们很重要。它们强化了我们为客户服务的能力,在提供我们有价值和值得信赖的产品的同时,我们和我们的供应商以负责任、合乎道德和合法的方式开展业务,这对我们很重要。
我们实施了第三方行为准则,概述了我们做生意的道德准则,并解释了我们努力确保所有供应商都应遵守的标准,我们也希望我们供应商的供应商遵守这些标准。本守则的主要原则如下:
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。
艾盛集团认识到奴隶制、强迫劳动和人口贩运(现代奴隶制)是一个全球性问题。艾盛集团认为这将影响着无辜的生命。艾盛集团对任何形式的现代奴隶制都采取零容忍的态度,并已采取措施将其从供应链中消除。通过这项工作,我们得到了客户、供应商和艾盛集团员工对这种零容忍态度的支持。艾盛公司上下对现代奴隶制毫无容忍度,并承诺提高意识,采取措施以负责任的方式寻找供应商。
我们有一个严格的反腐败政策,禁止所有员工提供,承诺或行贿; 索取、或者收受贿赂; 贿赂外国公职人员以获取或保留业务或与业务有关的利益。该政策包括员工如何在保密情况下向道德热线举报任何涉嫌违反政策的行为,并保证善意提出的担忧不会受到任何批评或惩罚。艾盛集团董事会已任命审计委员会审查该政策的实施情况,审计委员会定期监测和审计合规情况。
2020年没有违反《反贿赂法》的报道。
我们还要求我们的供应商通过我们的第三方行为准则对贿赂和腐败采取零容忍的态度。
我们有一个正式的检举政策,鼓励所有员工举报可疑的不当行为,因为他们知道,他们的担忧将得到认真对待和适当调查,并且会保密。不法行为包括不遵守法律义务或法规,包括贿赂和腐败。该政策还旨在让员工放心,他们能够提出真正的担忧,而不必担心遭到报复,即使结果证明他们错了。我们提供由独立第三方运营的保密热线的详细信息,以及政策范围内独立审计委员会主席的联系方式。该政策已纳入员工手册,并可在公司内部网上看到。
我们直接和间接温室气体排放的全部详情载于董事报告的第53页。