People and Communities Impact Report - 2021/2022

People and Community IMPACT REPORT

Welcome

As one of the largest employers in the UK, we are only too aware of our responsibility as an employer and the ability we have to make a positive impact on the many communities in which we operate.

Working with the Social Value Portal, it has been fascinating to understand the impact of the work that we do – whether it be through local employment, skills and development; our D&I agenda; commitment to SMEs and our wider supply chain activity; as well as the many community projects we support.

Our social value measure for 2021 provides a solid baseline for us to build upon. However, we have also included a snapshot of the work also carried out throughout 2022. We will be reporting on our social impact in 2022 in the coming months, where we hope to see further impact of our investment in this agenda. By tracking and measuring our progress against the National Toms Framework, we will continue to be transparent about the measures we are taking to make a difference, as well as the areas where we need to do more and how we are going to address this.

We have long been committed to doing the right thing. This means that our people first philosophy ensures we are always looking at how we support our employees as well the communities in which we work. 2022 saw us launch our social mobility strategy, meaning whatever your background, you will have an opportunity to progress and develop a career with us.

The past two years businesses have faced many unexpected challenges. With cost of living an issue for most UK households, the social value businesses can generate has never been so important. 2023 will see us continue to drive forward this agenda, putting the welfare of our colleagues front and centre, working to provide opportunities for all, while also continuing to support the communities we work in.

Foreword

“This is just the start of our social value journey at Compass Group UK & Ireland. We are very proud of the social impact we have produced to date and recognise there are many areas of improvement over future years. We have an amazing workforce who live and breathe social value and we will continue to engage with them to build upon our future social value journey at Compass Group UK & Ireland.”

“It has been great to see Compass fully embrace delivering social value as part of their business DNA. As a leading UK employer, the commitments being delivered through their Social Promise are phenomenal and demonstrate the significant positive impact organisations can have on local economies and society, which is especially important given the times we are living in.”

Our Social Value Impact 2021 Understanding our baseline

Overall SLEV: £591m

Key: SLEV = Social and local economic value - the impact we make in the local communities we serve

APPRENTICESHIPS

8263 weeks of apprenticeship training

301 apprenticeships

REAL LIVING WAGE October 2021

Became RLW recognised service provider

JOBS

45,000 employees

SLEV: £590m

SUPPORTING OUR PEOPLE

7262

D&I training hours

£231k invested in mental health campaigns

INNOVATION

Delivered SLEV: £47k

GROWTH Value

SLEV: £1.2m

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

SLEV: £120k donated to local community projects

SUPPLY CHAIN

£1.2m spend with Social Enterprises

How has our Social Value been measured:

This report outlines the social and local economic value that (SLEV) has been unlocked by Compass Group UK & Ireland through our direct corporate initiatives and activities that have taken place in the 2021 calendar year.

The data has been collected retrospectively and reported using the National TOMs Social Value Framework.

The proxy values used in the Measures which capture the local economic value deriving from local employment (NT1) have each been localised to Compass Groups corresponding offices and work units and an average value has been provided in this report.

* We have reported separately on our “environmental” activity in our Climate Impact Report published in February 2023

Supporting local employment

Overall SLEV: £590m

The majority of our colleagues live within the communities that they work. Many of which are based in areas classified as deprived - as defined by Office of National Statistics, using Indices of Multiple Deprivation. As a result of our geographical spread and social value focus, we support many different community programmes and charities across the country.

Our People’s Stories

We are one of the largest employers in the UK and we know have the ability to change the lives of many people, through the provision of good jobs and opportunities to progress.

We are passionate about supporting social mobility and our learning and development programmes actively look at how we can remove barriers people face.

Bally Purewal Operations Director, 14Forty

Bally is working towards a Level 7 Senior Leadership Apprenticeship, in partnership with Aston University. He took on this opportunity having been with Compass for 24 years, to further develop his skills and was recently Highly Commended at the Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards for his work.

Bally commented: “I want to develop my skills, knowledge and behaviours to be able to obtain a senior leadership role and this apprenticeship is supporting my development in the right direction. One of the things I love most about the course, is the empowerment to have conversations through the networking opportunities, to express myself and draw on other people’s experiences.”

“I have been part of the Compass family for 7 years originally starting as a Barista for Medirest. My manager’s noticed how eager I was to learn and when an opening arose for Assistant Manager, they suggested I applied. I was encouraged to enrol on the Management Academy and now I am the Retail General Manager.

My mentor really inspired me as her passion for her job and family came through in everything she did. Compass really is a place where you don’t have to make the tough decision to choose work over family, you can have both.

My top piece of advice is, If you want to progress, Compass will give you the tools, training and support you and then it’s up to you.”

“Wow I’ve been with Compass for over 30 years. In my early career I was a part-time cook and am now a Business Director in ESS.

I absolutely love the people I work with, and the role is so varied: one minute I am accountant, the next a health and safety advisor to even being a counsellor.

When I’ve experienced changes in my personal circumstances the support Compass have given is fantastic; the flexible working around my young family to supporting me though grief, they have always listened.

My one piece of advice would be to focus on the things you can change and not the things you can’t.”

Investing in our People Our Social Promise

In 2022, we launched “our Social Promise” – this is a commitment to support to one million people from both within and outside our organisation.

We are working to enhance people’s opportunities and change their lives through job creation, education, training, community and charitable engagement.

By 2030, we want to have addressed the barriers that many face when it comes to progression –particularly of gender, race, and those from less advantaged and under-represented backgrounds. We plan to do this through ensuring better representation, providing our employees with skills and progression, supporting the communities in which we work, helping the next generation by engaging with schools, and advocating fairer pay for all.

Compass UK & I has set an annual target for promotions within the company to gradually improve diversity across middle and senior management. We will track progression rates for employees of different genders and ethnicities to have a clear understanding of the strategy’s impact. We will be the first in our industry to measure and set socioeconomic representation targets.

Click here to read our charter

Social Promise Roadmap

“A Mission to a Million”

Our Social Promise is looking to support one million people by 2030, through jobs, training, community engagement and development. We will also seek to address the inequalities that create barriers to progression – setting targets in relation to race, gender and social -economic background.

1 Million

Number of People

Launch of “A mission to a million”

School engagement programme

Create baseline data

Compass employees volunteer programme rolled out – phase 1

Publication of first gender and ethnicity pay gap annual report

Compass Academy Breaking Ground

Compass employees volunteer programme rolled out –phase 2

Employee measurement survey

Employee measurement survey

1 million people supported

Milestones

Continue to deliver on our Real Living Wage commitment

2024

50% gender representation

Employee measurement survey

14% ethnic minority representation

5% Black representation

40% social economic representation

Created over 5000 apprenticeships Compass Academy opens (2024)

Disability data recording, along with outreach programme to support skills development and job placements

2030

Investing in our People

SLEV: £1.8m Over 8263 weeks

of apprenticeship training delivered

301 apprentices

Forward with Marcus Wareing

We have a comprehensive Apprenticeship Programme in place – to ensure whatever role an employee is in, they are can learn new skills, grow and develop while on the job.

We provide over 60 different apprenticeships that cover everything from Culinary, Facilities, Business Management, Events, HR, Finance, IT/ Digital, Sales and Procurement.

Our apprenticeships have been developed to take apprentices from level 2 up to level 6 and 7, degree apprenticeships. We have created career pathways which offer genuine opportunities for all roles and ages across all business sectors within Compass.

Launched in the summer of 2021, the programme named ‘Forward with Marcus Wareing’ is an enhanced development course which runs alongside a Level 4 Senior Culinary Chef or Level 5 Operations Departmental Manager apprenticeship standard, delivered in partnership with national hospitality training provider, HIT Training.

A great supporter in helping chefs reach their potential, Marcus has been instrumental in creating and implementing this programme, spending time with the cohort during 4 enrichment modules including practical, theory or 121 coaching and mentoring.

Focus areas include sustainability, creating a more diverse kitchen brigade in terms of ethnicity and gender, developing mental first aider skills, mentoring and analysis of different leadership styles and outcomes.

The scheme contains four modules including –

1. Commercial

2. Culture

3. Sustainability

4. The Craft

The first cohort of 14 people recently completed their modules with Marcus and will officially graduate on completion of their Apprenticeship Standard in 2023. We are delighted that the second cohort begun their course towards the end of 2022.

“I feel grateful to have been nominated for the Marcus Wareing programme. I am excited and hope that my passion for food and eagerness to better myself come across. It’s great to be part of a company who not only value sustainability andgood produce, but also their employees.”

600 apprentices underway

Over 60 different apprenticeships now available

2022

OVER 50% of culinary apprentices are female

19% ethnic minority apprentices

52% female apprentices

Achieved - Commis Chef Level 2

Working towards – Chef De Partie Level 3

Won the Apprentice of the Year 2022 at the Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards in the Retail, Hospitality and Tourism category and runner up in the 2022 Compass Apprentice Chef of the Year competition.

“Taking on this apprenticeship has allowed me to follow my passion, balancing learning with practical work whilst getting paid. I love being part of the team here and learning from others around me. There is always something new to uncover and that’s what I enjoy most about being a chef and I hope to build my knowledge further, as I continue this exciting journey.”

Working towards Senior Production Chef – Level 3

“Since starting my Apprenticeship I have learnt to better manage and gained valuable knowledge, which in turn has allowed me to develop my confidence in the kitchen and my communication skills. My overall career ambition is to become a great chef manager and one day a business owner with the skills and experience to become a positive inspiration to others who wish to become a part of the catering industry.”

Achieved Facilities Manager

Level 3

Secured a new role as an FM Manager decided she wanted to learn more about facilities management to support her in role and upskill further.

“The apprenticeship increased my knowledge of Facilities Management, Health and safety. My understanding of managing my team has increased. I am using my level 3 diploma as a foundation for further development and progression within Compass Group. I am now using my newly acquired skills in my new role as FM Manager, which is a chunkier role than I had previously.”

Introducing Kickstarters to our business

Kickstarters

62% have remained in our business

Compass was one of the first large employers to be successful with an initial submission for 50 Kickstart opportunities.

By the end of the programme, we successfully filled 273 placements, which resulted in 62% remaining in our business with longer term jobs.

We embraced Kickstart as part of our Social Mobility strategy to give everyone the support needed to get their first step onto the career ladder. Our programme was designed and implemented with our delivery partners to ensure that potential candidates had the wraparound support they needed for their own individual personal development from the start of their journey.

We developed Gateway to Employment programmes with our delivery partner Springboard and The Care Covenant offering a 2-week pre-employability programme with a guaranteed interview with our Hiring Mentors for one of our Kickstart opportunities.

Once a candidate had been successfully recruited onto our Kickstart programme candidates had monthly progress reviews with their Mentor detailing the skills that they had learnt and agreeing SMART targets for the next 4 weeks. The Apprenticeship team also completed monthly well-being calls with each Kickstart Candidate during the six-month programme checking in with them to make sure they felt safe. It was a really successful programme.

Brandon Sage

Apprenticeship & Early Careers Administrator (Apprenticeship Team)

“I have gained a variety of skills in my apprenticeship role from all sources. I have improved skills and also gained a lot of communication skills by conducting wellbeing calls and apprenticeship vacancy calls. When I first started I had zero confidence but slowly I have built it up even building on communication with my team more and more everyday by being in the office. I have also learned to be more independent when doing certain tasks and I get on with it.”

Lauryn Sinclair-Johnson Recruitment Officer, Medirest UK

“The Kickstart scheme has been a great experience for me and it has allowed me develop my skills and boost my confidence. I felt quite lost after completing my degree during the pandemic as there were limited opportunities. I then joined Medirest Recruitment as an Administrator for a short period of time, and I was then offered a permanent role as a Recruitment Officer. I wouldn’t be where I am today without the help of the Kickstart scheme.”

Our award winning apprenticeship programme

Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards 2022

Shortlisted as a finalist in the Employer of The Year Retail, Hospitality & Tourism category 2022

We have committed to transfer £1.6 million apprenticeship levy

to support over 130 SMEs in the hospitality industry for the skills development of their employees

Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards in the Retail Hospitality and Tourism Category 2021

(Formerly BAME Apprenticeship Awards) Winning Employer of the Year

We work with over 20 Apprenticeship Delivery Partners made up of Training Providers, Colleges, and Universities

Training and Apprenticeship Award

Finalist in Public Sector Catering

HIT Hero Awards 2021

Large Employer of the Year and Community Outreach Programme (Highly Commended)

HIT Hero Awards 2022

Large Employer of the Year and Senior Sous Chef, Jodie Plummer, Chef Apprentice of the Year

IOH Awards 2022 in the Equality and Diversity Category

Winning Employer of the Year

We work with key stakeholders

such as Springboard, Multicultural Apprenticeship Alliance, BSA, CBI, IOH, Care Leavers Covenant, ESFA

Cambrian Training, Apprenticeship, Employment & Skills Awards 2021 winners

Real Living Wage

October 2021

Secured Real Living Wage Recognised Service Provider Status

As a purpose-led organisation, we want to be a force for good in our communities. We recognise that paying a Living Wage to all our direct employees was a positive first step, but also want to see more of our employees working on client contracts being paid the Real Living Wage too. Therefore, we committed to engage with our clients on the advantages of being a Real Living Wage payer and to emphasise the benefits for their workforce and their service provision.

We also committed to including fully costed Living Wage tenders to all potential clients. By tackling low pay head on, together with our clients we can make a difference to tens of thousands of people’s lives and the lives of their families.

Since becoming a Recognised Service Provider we have worked with 300 clients to pay colleagues the Real Living Wage

Over 29,000 of our workforce paid RLW or above

We introduced the NEW Living Wage rates for those we directly employ from 1 November 2022

2022 and beyond...

In November 2022, Levy UK announced, that from 1 January 2023, it will be paying all its employees - including variable workers the Real Living Wage (RLW). Levy employs over a thousand full-time workers and has a 14,500 strong variable hour workforce to support their clients from sports stadia, arenas and conference centres across the country. Levy has worked closely with clients to move to this positive position, many of which are also RLW employers, such as Chelsea Football Club and Edgbaston.

The Real Living Wage Foundation announced in September that the new Living Wages rates would increase by 10.1% rise to the UK rate and an 8.1% rise to reflect current inflation. The new Real Living Wage rate is £10.90, and the London Living Wage rate will rise to £11.95.

Levy UK values and cares for their people and know that paying the Real Living Wage can make a difference. We asked some of our Levy colleagues what paying the RLW meant to them:

General Assistant: “The increase in my pay has meant that I no longer have to do my extra job in the evening so I can spend more time with my children, Thank you for helping.”

Bar Staff Retail: “Let’s be honest it’s tough for students in London, but the higher rates have meant I don’t have to work extra shifts when I should be studying, and it helps with my living costs.”

An employee who works in a stadia kiosk said “Getting a better hourly rate means I can help more at home and with the cost of living crisis it means I can support more, which is a relief.”

“Our people are the lifeblood of our business, so paying a fair wage, especially in light of the cost-of-living crisis, is absolutely the right thing to do. We have been working in partnership with our clients over the past two years to move to the position of paying 100% of our workers in the UK the Real Living Wage. We value and care for our people and know that paying the Real Living Wage can make a big difference, allowing them to enjoy a more balanced life.”

“As the cost of living continues to rise, it’s fantastic to see Levy’s leadership and hard-work over the past two years in moving to pay all employees a real Living Wage. The benefits the Living Wage brings to workers and business alike and has never been more important.”

Diversity and Inclusion

Over 7000 hours of training delivered

£740,000 SLEV

Our employee networks play a vital role in ensuring we live and breathe our diversity and inclusion commitments. Run by colleagues, for colleagues, they work together to develop meaningful initiatives that raise awareness of key topics and include: our Women in Food network; Within, our ethnic minority network; our LGBTQI+ PRIDE in Food network; our You Matter mental health network; our Ability disability network will be launched early in the new year.

From monthly InclusiviTEA events that bring people together from across the organisation, to our reverse mentoring programmedeveloped to create a shared understanding of the barriers and opportunities for colleagues from ethnic minority groups - our networks challenge us to ensure that the initiatives we introduce are tangible and long-lasting. That they’re rooted in our commitment to building a culture of respect, integrity, and belonging.

As part of this, each of these networks has a group of ambassadors, who as well as supporting our jam-packed awareness events calendar, also mentor junior colleagues on their career development and are a powerful voice for their community.

Above it all, we want people to be confident that they can be themselves at work, whatever their race, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, or disability. Because for us, diversity and individuality are gifts that enable us to create a culture where everyone can share their ideas, develop their talents, and perform at their best. When our people are happy, our clients and guests are happy too: it’s a win-win.

Armed Forces Covenant

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and have gold status. In Armed Forces Week in 2022, we announced a new spouse’s policy. The policy recognises the important role spouses play in supporting their partners who are serving in the military – these are individuals who often have to manage family life at home, alongside working while their spouse may be posted overseas or relocated. We have committed to:

• Providing an additional day of leave to support pre or post-deployments of three months or longer.

• Endeavouring to redeploy military spouses to an alternative role internally on notification of a spouses posting. This is now compulsory across the UK business.

• Recognise and celebrate the contribution of military spouses through a selection of events on our company annual Spouse’s Day.

Reverse mentoring

We launched a ‘Mentor Up’ programme to help create a shared understanding of the barriers, challenges and opportunities for colleagues from ethnic minority groups.

The programme partners senior leaders (mentees) with individuals from ethnic minority groups (mentors). Participants share their experiences, perspectives and knowledge to broaden and deepen their awareness of themselves and others.

This helps to inform actions to support the further enhancement of diversity and inclusion in Compass, to create an environment where everyone can thrive.

The programme provides a safe space for open conversations between participants focused on mutual learning, respect and creating a way forward together.

London Pride - July 2022

Supporting and celebrating our LGBTQ+ community, Pride in Food strives to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone can freely be themselves and maximise their potential with an emphasis on Respect, Equality, Teamwork and Growth.

We work closely with our supply chains, partners and customers to share best practice around supporting the LGBTQ+ community. We have also been a key partner with Pride London by delivering large parts of the hospitality for several years and in 2022, 50 of our employees joined the Parade as well as sponsoring the VIP tent in Trafalgar Square with some amazing food designed by chef Allegra McEvedy MBE who worked with our teams on a delicious colourful menu.

Women in Food

Women make up two thirds of our people and we’re always looking to attract, retain and develop our female talent, as well as ensure appropriate representation at every level of our organisation.

Having originally launched Women in Food in 2016, to focus on culinary talent, we have expanded our community to support all job roles both food and nonfood related.

On International Women’s Day 2022- we brought together around 200 people including clients, suppliers, industry leaders and frontline colleagues including chefs, cleaners and baristas –with the aim of showcasing initiatives to support female talent and demonstrating how everyone can do something to #breakthebias.

Celebrating Black History Month

In 2022 we marked Black History Month - with our own reimagined Compass ‘Black Future Month’. A launch event was held at our head office in Chertsey, with many of our Within network present. Throughout Black Future Month, stories of influential black activists as well as our own colleagues were told to inspire and educate our people.

Supporting our people’s mental health

SLEV: £231,240

We aim to promote and support the mental health and wellbeing of our colleagues. We want to create positive working environments which support employee well-being, create a culture of openness and acceptance around mental health, encourage colleagues to look out for each others’ mental health as well as their own, create the time to talk ensuring that managers and colleagues know where to go for support in dealing with mental health issues.

Over 400 people trained in mental health awareness

Our You Matter programme was set up three years ago and is run by a network of employees passionate about supporting people’s mental health and wellbeing.

Colleagues also have access to a free mental health guidance and support through our Employee Assistance Programme. We regularly run mental health campaigns and share information on how you can look after your mental health and provide colleagues to specialist help if they need further support.

Mental Health Awareness training has also be rolled out across our business, primarily aimed at line managers to enable them to spot the signs of people in difficulty, creative positive working environments and sign post those who need further support. 400 people have carried out the training to date.

We hold regular webinars which cover a range of topics from hints and tips on managing stress, dealing with grief and colleagues from across the organsiation, including senior leaders, sharing their own experience of mental health issues. These have been very popular with high levels of engagement.

We also share information on nutrition and wellbeing, to support employees making healthier choices to support with their mental health.

Our supply chain

SLEV: £147K

In 2021

OVER £1.2 million spent with social enterprise suppliers

87% or our spend was with UK&I Headquartered businesses (support job creation and local economy)

(Jan – Dec 2021) 86 tonnes, equivalent to 203,985 meals, supporting 2,510 charities

31% or our spend was with SME’s

Foodbuy made a commitment to spend £5 million with social enterprises. As of November 2022, we’re delighted to announce that we have reached the £5million spend mark.

By working directly with social enterprise suppliers, we will be increasing our procurement spend and influence to support these businesses and in doing so, change lives for the better.

Making a bigger impact in 2022

£5m spent with social enterprises

CHANGE PLEASE

We supported

75 people out of homeless with Change Please

TOAST ALE

11,906 of bread slices were saved Jan-Sept 2022 and used by Toast Ale

LIFE WATER

Since the beginning of our partnership, Compass Group and Foodbuy have supported the Drop4Drop charity to fund

300 clean drinking water projects through sales of Life Water products.

FARESHARE

We donated the equivalent of

256,994 meals ( 109 tonnes) through our donation partners Too Good Too Go, OLIO and FareShare

PITCH SOCIAL

Launched a new programme which aims to identify new social enterprises, B-Corps and minority-owned suppliers that are doing amazing social or environmental value work in their fields. Through this event, we created new collaborative and dynamic partnerships with UK-based suppliers that have high social and environmental performance.

We listed a social enterprise (WildHearts Office) as a core supplier for stationery.

A relationship with Wildhearts will see us fund projects on gender equality and social mobility through our purchases on stationery.

Supporting the communities in which we work

Compass Healthcare and Compass Retail

Through our partnership with

Alzheimer’s Society

our healthcare colleagues have raised over £435,000 since 2015

In 2021 and 2022 Elf week raised over £38k

This support has helped fund frontline Dementia Advisers who provide vital dementia support to local communities across the UK.

We have also recently announced that the partnership will now incorporate more of Compass’ wider Retail business going forward.

Support five key charities:

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity

The RAF Benevolent Fund

The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity Mental Health UK

The UK Oil & Gas Chaplaincy

Raised over £42k

Sponsorship of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC) cookbook

Our ESS Energy colleagues provided 4000 meals and 125 hampers of food and essentials for homeless shelters in the Aberdeen area

Chartwells

Partnered with the

Dame Kelly Holmes Trust

we have raised through donations and fundraising over £23,000

10 nutritionists are now Mental Health

First Aid trained

Launched a recipe e-book, containing lots of recipes from our teams and the DKHT athletes and staff

Beyond The Chartwells Kitchen programme, produced a series of well being videos filmed by different athletes from the Trust and shared in school assemblie

2021 & 2022

OVER £500,000 raised

Business and Industry

Raised £20,000 for Mental Health UK

Raised over £2000 to Padley Group with overnight camp out - supporting those facing homelessness, depth addiction, mental health issues and unemployment.

Restaurant Associates

Support Refettorio Felix with over 300 hours of volunteering alongside the provision of food

All B&I sites raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support by participating in the Macmillan coffee mornings

Our Life Water sales have provided sustainable clean water supplies to 4628 people across 6 villages in India and Africa via the Drop4drop charity.

Since 2014, we have supported over 50 projects for this charity.

Given 200 hours volunteering in cleaning up local neighbourhoods in London

Raised £130k for Ukrainian charities since the beginning of the conflict

Provided over 4 tonnes of unwanted food to the likes of OLIO to support local food kitchens and they have sponsored and actively supported Off the Street’s helping young Londoners to gain barista skills, jobs and urban bike racing opportunities

Gained 3 star certification from the Sustainable Restaurant Association which recognises work in helping local communities across the country

Partnered with the British Paralympic Association (BPA) in 2020

The 2022 target is in excess of £60,000 with each Levy UK+I partner venue tasked to host its own charity event or team challenge

Raised over £60,000

to support the BPA’s 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games fund

Looking to achieve 25% food waste by end of 2023 –work with partners Olio, Fareshare and Too Good to Go

Compass Group UK & Ireland

Support for Ukraine

Compass Group UK & Ireland has looked to support the plight of the Ukrainian people from the outset of the war. We looked to do this through a number of different ways

Our parent company Group

PLC donated £250,000 to the DEC

Our colleagues also raised over £4700 through fundraising activities

Homes for Ukraine – we allocated an initial £25,000 fund that could be accessed by employees who were hosting Ukrainian refugees

Foodbuy

Springboard Fund

– in partnership with Springboard and Newham College of Further Education, we created and funded a programme that provides bespoke, pre-employment support – including language training, counselling and skills building - to help unemployed people, including refugees, as they seek to rebuild their life

Compass Ireland

Supported Temple Street W82go programme to provide children and families with education and activity around healthy eating and cooking

Raised over £20,000 for Duchenne in 20221, adding to the £380,000 raised in recent years

Working with Oakland International - who sent a fleet of vehicles with supplies to the Poland/ Ukraine border - we have donated over £8,000 of emergency supplies including a mix of food for hot meals, as well as nourishing longer-life food

Compass Ireland also donated surplus stock to various organisations including Dublin Simon

Community, Foodcloud

Fundraised for Turn2Me, Children’s Health Foundation and the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice.

In support of these organisations, they ran a number of fundraising activities throughout the year including a Danceathon, a raffle and a bake sale

Compass Cymru

In 2021 began three year partnership with homelessness charityLlamau.

Our teams supported the Annual Sleep Out and raised £7k so far

Compass Scotland

Compass Scotland partnered with FareShare. Kicking off the partnership at one of its largest sites, the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.

Partnered with FareShare Cymrudonating hundreds of meals to those in need

1.5 tonnes of surplus food to 42 charities and community groups in Scotland between April and June 2022

Supported The Larderproviding 300 boxes of shortbread and 150 selection boxes and gift bags for their Christmas appeal

Compass Group UK & I Volunteering programme

We are introducing a day off to support with volunteering at projects around the country

Our new volunteering programme will be launched in 2023

Compass Group has contributed a total £16,951 this year to Cancer Research UK, this has been a combination of fundraising from Compass Retail, and a leading B&I site and Chartwells HE site, along with our HSE Team

Supporting our people Cost of living

We recognise that the cost of living is putting pressure on everyone’s household budgets.

We want to do all that we can to support our people during this challenging time, therefore we have put together a comprehensive support package.

FEEDING OUR WORKFORCE

We are all about food. Therefore, where we serve food each of our employees are able to access one free meal a day.

This will see us providing approximately 200,000 meals a week to our people.

We have also enhanced our food donation scheme so our teams can now donate surplus hot food safely too, supporting many more local communities

EMPLOYEE WELLBEING

All our employees have access to our free Employee Assistance Programme – this provides 24/7 access to wellbeing and mental health support and access to professional help in the event it is required

ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Our Helping Hands Fund has been relaunched –Initially set up to support employees during Covid, we have enhanced our fund, to support employees with emergency payments and those costs that often people won’t have budget for or spare money available eg. Car repairs following an MOT failure, broken cooker etc.

Colleagues are able to make applications for funds provided on a grant basis, which are reviewed by our Employee Relations team who are also on hand to provide any additional welfare support if that is required

ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SUPPORT

ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Working with Salary Finance, employees are able to access: pay more flexibly, affordable loans (high-interest debts can be consolidated into one monthly payment, to support with taking control of finances) and also financial wellbeing support.

We have continued to communicate the benefits of our Employee benefits programme

to our colleagues – this has saved over £500,000 per year

for our people, through the provision of discounts with leading retailers, including supermarkets

We launched this in November 2022 and already have several hundred colleagues benefiting from more flexible access to pay

“Perks at work”

About The National Social Value TOMs Framework

The National TOMs Framework has been used to measure and report on the delivered Social Value.

It is a measurement framework that has been developed by the National Social Value Taskforce, a cross-sector organisation that combines public, private and third sector organisations.

The framework was the result of extensive consultation across local authorities and public-sector organisations, including Office of Civil Society and Crown Commercial Services.

The measurement framework used has been built around the National TOMs 2021 (Themes, Outcomes and Measures) which consists of 5 Themes, 20 Outcomes and 48 Measures. The framework embedded by Compass Group included 13 Measures across 11 Outcomes and 5 Themes.

The framework also includes a measure from the Facilities Management Plug-In 2022. The Themes centre on promoting ‘Jobs and Skills’, ‘Supporting Growth’, ‘Empowering Communities’, ‘Protecting the Environment’ and ‘Promoting Social Innovation’. Financial proxy values have been attributed to the Measures that underpin these Themes by using publicly available data sources such as the Unit Cost Database. These values have been used to calculate the Social and Local Economic Value (SLEV) generated directly by Compass Group. Social Value (SV) and Local Economic Value (LEV) are reported separately, as LEV represents economic value generated locally through displacement of value from elsewhere and therefore not considered to represent value to society as a whole.

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