Modern Slavery Statement

We pride ourselves on being a business with exemplary core values. We are customer focused, expert in our advice, passionate about being outdoors and aim to be a good place to work.
Within all these values, respecting people and the planet are paramount to us and our Modern Slavery Statement flows from that. Our business consists of supplying third party brands that we believe in from a performance and ethical viewpoint.

This statement sets out our actions to understand all potential modern slavery risks related to its business and to put in place steps that are aimed at ensuring that there is no slavery or human trafficking in our business and our supply chains.

As part of the retail sector, we recognise our responsibility to take a robust approach to slavery and human trafficking. The business is absolutely committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking in its corporate activities, and to ensuring that its supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking.

The business currently operates in the following countries:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The organisation encourages all its colleagues, customers and other business partners to report any concerns related to the direct activities, or the supply chains of the organisation. This includes any circumstances that may give rise to an enhanced risk of slavery or human trafficking. The organisation's whistleblowing procedure is designed to make it easy for colleagues to make disclosures, without fear of retaliation.
We have shared this policy with all staff and will ensure that is reviewed each fiscal year and approved annually.

Every person working for us, our suppliers and factories does so out of their own choice - with no forced, bonded or involuntary labour and no human trafficking or slavery. We believe every employee should be free to leave their employer after a reasonable notice period if they want to.

Whilst primarily using our in-house retail and marketing departments, we use only specified, reputable employment agencies to source labour and always verify the practices of any new agency we are using before accepting colleagues from that agency. We make sure that each labour provider is compliant with current legislation including the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

We are committed to ensuring that our suppliers adhere to the highest standards of ethics. We are constantly striving to strengthen our mission of protecting people and planet. Suppliers are required to demonstrate that they provide safe working conditions where necessary, treat colleagues with dignity and respect, and act ethically and within the law in their use of labour. We work with suppliers to ensure that they meet the standards of the code and improve their worker's working conditions.

Serious violations of the organisation's supplier code of conduct will lead to the termination of the business relationship. We enforce our suppliers via our general terms and conditions and we are committed to make further improvements by self-audit and engaging 3rd parties to complete independent ethical checks. We are also rolling out a new supply chain compliance programme and committing to independent regular audits.

Outsiders Store will only accept merchandise if fundamental rights have been taken into consideration. By this we mean:
• Management practice that respect the rights of all employees, including the right to free association and collective bargaining.
• No child labour.
• No forced, indentured, involuntary, illegal or bonded colleagues are used in the production of goods.
• No labour which involves physical or mental abuse while producing our merchandise. Hours of work shall comply with applicable laws and local industry standards.
• Wages are paid regularly, on time and be fair in respect of work performance
• A safe and healthy environment for those who are involved in the production of our merchandise