Modern slavery statement 2025
Introduction
Charities Trust strives to identify, assess, and mitigate potential modern slavery and human trafficking risks across its operations and supply chains. As defined in The Modern Slavery Act 2015, Charities Trust ensures that practices are reviewed, monitored and if necessary improved to prevent slavery and human trafficking.
Charities Trust has a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and human trafficking and is fully committed to acting ethically and with integrity in its business dealings, ensuring transparency across the business and requiring the same high standards from suppliers and business partners.
Our commitment to preventing modern slavery aligns with our broader goals around ethical governance, sustainability, and social responsibility.
Organisation’s Structure & Supply Chains
Charities Trust is a leading donations management organisation committed to growing charitable giving since 1987. Based in one site in Liverpool, UK, Charities Trust offers a wide range of services to help clients raise millions of pounds for good causes, easily, safely and tax effectively.
We procure a wide variety of goods and services from complex IT infrastructure to everyday office supplies. As some of our suppliers have their own suppliers, we prioritise our attention on key suppliers.
Any changes to key suppliers require a risk based, impact assessment to check that there is sufficient due diligence undertaken to satisfy Charities Trust that they meet the expectations of UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, they are financially viable and conduct their business ethically, and to the standards expected by Charities Trust.
Where feasible, supplier contracts include clauses requiring compliance with anti-slavery legislation.
Governance & Policies
As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk (including in relation to that of human trafficking and slavery) we operate a range of internal policies designed, to address the requirements of The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and support ethical business conduct.
Our Policies reflect our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective due diligence and contractual compliance.
Supplier adherence to the values of Charities Trust
At Charities Trust, we expect the highest standards of conduct and probity throughout our supply chain and business relationships, requiring all those to comply with relevant law and regulation. We will not engage with any organisation found to be involved in modern slavery or human trafficking, and we reserve the right to terminate relationships where credible concerns arise.
As part of Charities Trust’s risk-based process for managing payments through to charities and good causes, a robust verification programme is undertaken to ensure that our obligations are met in a compliant manner.
Charities Trust delivers the necessary resources to ensure that risk is minimised through our Due Diligence and Know Your Donor/Client processes in line with our Charity Screening Policy when dealing with charity beneficiaries.
Communication and Training
As part of our commitment to preventing modern slavery and human trafficking colleagues are required to be familiar with the Act and complete relevant online training. This training includes how to identify and escalate any concerns in line with our policies. Colleagues have access to policies including whistleblowing and are encouraged to raise any concerns about their own treatment by the company, or individual colleagues, in confidence and without fear and will be investigated in line with our internal procedures.
Charities Trust has a lead in the business who, as part of their role, co-ordinates policies, processes, training, and education. This lead acts as the internal point of contact for modern slavery concerns and ensures alignment between policy, training, and operational practices.
Review
Charities Trust will review and update this Statement annually to meet the requirements of The Modern Slavery Act 2015. The Company Secretary assesses the effectiveness of our policies and procedures in relation to modern slavery and reports any required changes directly to the Board. Effectiveness of our understanding of The Act is assessed through monitoring, including our training completion rates.
The Policy will be reviewed to reflect public policy and legislative changes and is made pursuant to Section 54(1) of The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our slavery and human trafficking Statement for the financial year ending 30th April 2025.
This Statement has been approved by the Board of Directors and signed by a Director on 29th October 2025.