A small organisation,
publishing it anyway.

Unity Relief UK falls below the £36 million annual turnover threshold at which a Section 54 statement is legally required under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We publish this statement voluntarily because we believe transparency on modern slavery risks should not be the preserve of large organisations.

This statement covers the financial year ending 31 March 2026. It was approved by our Board of Trustees on 18 April 2026 and is signed by our Chair on behalf of Unity Relief UK (registered charity 1199482 in England and Wales).

We are a UK-based non-profit with a single registered office in London, approximately 32 staff and 90 active volunteers. Our supply chain is small and almost entirely UK-based: software-as-a-service providers (hosting, accounting, email), professional services firms (audit, legal, payment processing), facilities and catering for our drop-in surgeries, and printed materials.

We do not manufacture goods, we do not operate in high-risk sectors (agriculture, construction, garment manufacture), and we do not employ international labour through third-party recruitment.

The areas of our supply chain we consider potentially vulnerable to modern-slavery practices are: cleaning services at our drop-in venues (where workers may be employed via subcontractors), printed materials we commission from third-party printers, and event catering at trustee meetings and partner events.

Within our own operations we identify the additional risk of borrowers themselves being exploited — for example, applying for a loan under duress from a controlling family member. Our safeguarding policy and caseworker training are designed to identify and respond to this risk; see our Safeguarding page for detail.

1. We have written a supplier code of conduct setting out our expectations on modern slavery and asked all suppliers above £1,000 annual spend to confirm they have read and accept it.

2. We have added modern-slavery awareness to our mandatory annual safeguarding refresher training for staff and trustees.

3. We have moved our cleaning contract from a multi-tier subcontractor to a direct local cooperative — small in scale but visible end-to-end.

4. We have begun publishing the names of our top ten suppliers each year in our annual report. The full list for 2025–26 is in section 8 of that report.

We do not publish a single 'modern slavery KPI' because we believe the headline metrics in this area can be misleading. Instead we measure: (1) percentage of suppliers (by spend) who have signed our supplier code (target: 100% by 2027); (2) number of safeguarding referrals raised by caseworkers in which financial coercion was a factor; (3) number of supplier site-visits carried out by our operations team each year.

The figures for the current reporting period are published in our annual impact report.

Anyone with concerns about modern slavery — whether relating to Unity Relief UK, our suppliers, or anyone we work with — is welcome to contact us in confidence at safeguarding@unityrelief.org.uk. In a situation involving immediate risk, please contact the UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline on 08000 121 700, or in emergencies 999.