Modern Slavery Statement 2025

This statement has been published in accordance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It sets out the steps The Entertainer has taken as a business during the financial year ending January 2025 and outlines plans to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking within our business and supply chain.

The Entertainer’s policies and practices reflect our commitment to act ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships. This includes identifying, implementing, and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure that no slavery and human trafficking, or any other aspect of Modern Slavery, is taking place anywhere within our business or supply chain.

The Entertainer is committed to working with suppliers that effectively address the risk of modern slavery.

The Business

The Entertainer is a multi-faceted British toy company with over 160 UK high street stores, 2 websites and a growing B2B2C service proposition through which multi-category retailers and franchisees draw services ranging from sourcing & design through to hosting full retail concessions. The business works closely with its sister company, Addo Play Limited, which focuses on toy product development and sourcing.

The business is proud of its strong values which uphold and proclaim the dignity of all, in particular children. It is committed to the eradication of slave labour and human trafficking. This includes ensuring that its suppliers are free from such practices, as far as the company, its contractors and subcontractors can control or influence such actions.

The Entertainer has an active partnership with Slave-Free Alliance who it works collaboratively with on its approach to tackling Modern Slavery. This partnership supports Hope for Justice, a charity working to bring an end to modern slavery and human trafficking, and to protect the human rights of victims and survivors; and is fighting human trafficking and helping victims and survivors all around the world.[MR1]

During the financial year the business entered into a partnership with Tesco Stores, in the UK and Republic or Ireland, which has expanded its trading footprint to cover over 900 more retail sites across the country.

The Supply Chain

Products sold in the Entertainer are sourced globally. The business expects those within its supply chain to respect the rights, well-being and welfare of their workforce and their working environment. All suppliers must adhere to the requirements set out in the existing supplier code of conduct; no forced, bonded or child labour, no slavery or human trafficking, no discrimination, no harsh or inhumane treatment, freedom to choose employment, hygienic and safe working environment, minimum living wage payment, no excessive working hours with at least one day off in every seven, freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Its supplier network is approved and monitored via its factory audit programme.

Overview of progress during 2024

The business operates an interdisciplinary team, comprised of members from The Entertainer and Addo Play Ltd (a sister company), who’s primary goal is to develop, implement, and review policies and procedures related to modern slavery within The Entertainer.

Supply Chain and Employment

The business continues to drive its on-site audit agenda, assessing key areas of compliance in relation to worker, site and building safety, labour practices, child/young workers, and production controls. Within the financial year ending 1st February 2025 targeted site audits were conducted on 33% of The Entertainer direct supplier sites in China. [MR2]

The business is partnered with Safecall, who operate an independent 3rd party reporting hotline for any concerns around modern slavery, within the supplier chain. During 2024, it was mandated that all direct manufacturing sites in China were to have our whistleblowing posters on display. This was also included as part of the auditing process. No whistleblowing reports were received during 2024.

The business worked alongside its UK Employment agencies’ audits to ensure they have thorough and detailed processes and procedures as part of their onboarding of contracted staff for supply to the business. The business is satisfied that they are operating with a reasonable and auditable recruitment process to identify any potential Modern Slavery or Forced Labour in their workforce.

Additionally, all internal documentation is monitored to ensure it is compliant and meets the requirements of the Business.[MR3]

Audits were carried out on labour agencies used by the business during the year, and it was found that they have clear and defined Modern Slavery Policies which are being followed on all sites in which the business engages with third party providers. The International Labour Organisation Indicators of forced labour and the eleven components that can be identified have been considered and applied to the Business. It has been concluded that there is no evidence at present of forced labour in The Entertainers domestic UK Business.

The business›s new 3rd party warehouse will be audited during 2025.

Training

All training was reviewed, and new awareness training was completed by head office teams, fulfilment warehouse managers and store management teams. Specialist training will be carried out with the commercial teams during 2025.

Due Diligence

The Modern Slavery working party meet periodically throughout the year to review progress against the modern slavery plan, discuss any issues, and agree actions for the coming months. The group is made up of managers from all areas of the business, including Buying, Logistics, Supply Chain, QA, Risk, Legal and the People management team.

Regular Board Meeting updates on progress are produced and shared with the Operating Board.

The whistleblowing line continued to be shared in all UK stores and warehouses. This is now used for any whistleblowing issues, incorporating any HR, financial or legal concerns.

Modern Slavery Policies

The Supplier Code of Conduct outlines the standards expected from all our product and service suppliers. It addresses issues such as forced labour, child labour, and working hours. Furthermore, the Modern Slavery Policy has been reviewed and revised to reflect these requirements.

Recruitment Policy – as well as the right-to-work evidence, checks are also conducted on bank accounts (no duplicate accounts on our system), and all interviewees are seen face to face. This also aligns with labour agencies used by the business who have stringent checks that they conduct at the onboarding stage.

Looking forward to the year ahead

For continual improvement and to ensure the business and supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking, the business commits to the following future steps:

• Increasing supply chain transparency will be a key focus area in 2025

  The business plans to introduce a minor brand supplier category, who may pose higher risk, and to incorporate them within the factory audit programme. To identify supplier categorisation, a new risk assessment tool will be developed to assess suppliers risk levels through several key areas, including social and ethical processes and policies.

• Factory audits

  The business will continue to further enhance its factory audit programme and will continue to visit and audit our supply base. This will be in partnership with the Addo Play Hong Kong team to conduct ethical audits on direct manufacturing facilities in China.

• Continuous Monitoring and Improvement

  Monitoring will continue on policies and setting KPIs for the business to ensure the business›s modern slavery objectives are achieved.

  Working with Slave Free Alliance the business will conduct a review of its policies and procedures to ensure that they meet the changing requirements of the legislation and the changing nature of the business.

  The business will keep auditing and monitoring UK labour providers, focusing on its two main UK warehousing sites. Additionally, a full audit will be conducted for its new partner warehouse in the East Midlands to ensure Modern Slavery compliance.

  Further reviews will take place on the effectiveness of the whistleblowing service to ensure it is sufficient and accessible.

This Modern Slavery Statement was prepared by the businesses Modern Slavery Working Party and has been approved by the Board of Directors.

Martin Rothwell

Group Chief Financial Officer

August 2025