Tangent International CSR

We are an international business operating in the global community – we take our responsibility to be a good corporate Citizen seriously. We try to direct our CSR programme to the areas where we might have a real impact. We want our CSR programme to be a dynamic one that develops with the company; we want it to become part of what makes us who we are, part of our DNA if you like.

We have defined four key areas on which to focus and have then added a fifth which measures our performance in those four key areas.

• Leadership & Influence
• Our People
• Our Communities
• The Environment
• Measurement

In the run up to Christmas charity events run by a number Tangent staff in Billericay raised over £430 for Little Havens. One of the events was the 'inevitable' Christmas Jumper Day' when staff were able to dust down their seasonal knitwear (and other seasonal costumes) to brighten up the office.

After weeks of prevaricating Chris from the Tangent back-office finally went through with his promise to lose his beard if his colleagues donated to charity. So earlier in January he sat down and allowed some of his colleagues 'assist' him in the defoliation process raising over £70 for charity. Before and 'during' photographs are as below. Well done Chris - all for a good cause! Hope it wasn't too painful!

CSR/Sustainability - Tangent has a strong and positive story to tell about its CSR initiatives but we were delighted to receive the external measure of our Policies, Procedures & Activities through the Silver award we received from Ecovadis towards the end of 2015. Much of what we have built up around CSR follows the tenets (see below) of the UNGC but we had not formally signed up to join the UNGC movement.- this we have now done and are pleased to include the Commitment Letter from Simon Dear, our CEO stating our commitment.

Thursday 1st December - Tangent staff will be running a number of events over the Christmas period to raise funds for Little Havens, the company charity. As at time of writing events in the diary include - a Christmas Jumper day and a Raffle.

We take environmental stewardship seriously and were pleased to be able to continue our contract for a further year for office electricity generated from biomass when we renewed our supply contract in the summer. SEE CERTIFICATE

Monday 31st October - staff at Tangent donned Halloween fancy dress costumes for the day raising over £100 for Little Havens, the company charity.

Wednesday November 2nd - boxes awaiting collection

Friday 25th November. Tangent was delighted to have been handed one of only 5 Golden Awards at the Southern Africa Region Huawei Supplier event in mid November. Tangent was the only international resource supplier invited and these 5 Golden awards are selected from a supplier base that probably runs into the thousands of companies across 25 Countries, so it was a significant achievement and one we are very proud of.

Thursday 1st December - with time fast diminishing Darren is currently mid stream at 14 miles but is looking for a sprint finish over next weekend to hit his target.

Any late donations will be much appreciated and can be made via the link to Darren's JustGiving page - www.justgiving.com/aspire16