Sustainability Commitments

SCOPE

This commitment encompasses all Arena Learning employees, associates, temporary staff, and third-party agents who conduct tasks on behalf of Arena Learning. It governs our procurement practices, direct operations, and the services we extend to our clients. Arena Learning is dedicated to shaping a sustainable society by adeptly balancing our social, environmental, and economic targets. Therefore, sustainability considerations permeate a network of interlinked commitments and their procedures, collectively implemented to realise the objectives of this Sustainability Commitment.

OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this commitment is to provide an effective framework for bringing Arena Learnings’ devotion to creating a sustainable society to fruition. This involves protecting and enhancing, when possible, the company’s social, environmental, and economic impacts, preventing pollution, alleviating social inequality, and stimulating sustainable economic growth as we transition to a low-carbon future.

RESPONSIBILITIES

All personnel, including associates, temporary staff, and third parties, are accountable for upholding this commitment. Furthermore, those involved in procuring goods and services have an obligation to consider social values that align with our sustainability goals. Specific commitments and procedures govern some activities within the scope of this commitment to ensure the realisation of its objectives.

COMMITMENT STATEMENT

Arena Learning is a national private training provider collaborating with various partners with an emphasis to educate, stimulate business growth, generate jobs, and enhance the lives of local residents and communities in those regions. Arena Learning acknowledges that our activities have extensive and interconnected influences on the economy, environment, and society.

In cognisance of this, Arena Learning is committed to contributing to a more sustainable society and consistently augmenting the positive impacts we generate by:

• Abiding by all pertinent laws and standards, and satisfying the expectations of our clients and other key stakeholders
• Establishing systems and procedures that prevent pollution and minimise resource usage
• Encouraging and enabling our employees and suppliers to uphold our sustainability commitments
• Continually evolving services to cater to those clients who typically have less access to mainstream services
• Routinely reviewing and improving our sustainability performance

To fulfil these commitments, Arena Learnings’ sustainability performance is led by the Director and the Senior Management Team, through our:

• Shared Values: Making a positive difference; Stronger together; Empowering people; Doing the right thing; Building on success
• Investors in People standard, Health and Wellbeing initiatives, and our Reward and Recognition programs to support, encourage, and enable meaningful employee contributions
• Social Enterprise Mark accreditation
• Equality and Diversity commitment and positive about disability status, affirming our commitment to equal opportunities
• Service provision, targeting and assisting those clients who are least able to access mainstream service provision
• Travel Commitment, promoting journey planning, use of alternative transportation modes, and providing access to EV leasing and Bike to Work schemes
• ICT Disposal Commitment, overseeing reuse, recycling, and related data security issues
• Managing and reducing Arena Learnings’ environmental impact in line with our commitment to be Net Zero by 2035
• Monitoring and reporting of our CO2 emissions
• Incorporation of Social Value requirements into our procurement commitment

To accomplish our sustainability objectives, Arena Learning recognises the necessity of and is committed to communicating these goals to our suppliers, employees, clients, and wider stakeholders. We do this through our procurement processes and existing communication channels, including the business plan, intranet, newsletters, team briefings, and staff induction processes.

This commitment and its associated actions will be reviewed annually as part of the business planning process, involving Arena Learnings senior leadership and management teams, with final ratification from the Arena Learning Directors and Governors.