Bruntwood is publishing this statement under the provision of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the ‘Act’). The Act requires the business to state the actions we have taken during the financial year to ensure modern slavery is not taking place in our operations and supply chains.

Introduction

Modern slavery has no place in our business or supply chains and we take a zero tolerance approach to it. We are strongly committed to playing our part in eradicating modern slavery. This statement refers to the financial year ending September 2025. It sets out the steps Bruntwood has taken, and is proposing to take to address the risk of slavery and human trafficking taking place in its business and within its supply chain.

About Bruntwood

Bruntwood is one of the UK’s leading property providers. For 50 years, it has been committed to creating thriving cities surrounded by a network of thriving town centres.

Bruntwood designs, develops and curates places that bring together work, leisure, retail and regeneration. It operates a £319m portfolio of workspace, located in Manchester city centre, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Leeds and Liverpool, alongside a £100m portfolio of town centre regeneration projects with Trafford and Bury Councils. The business also owns and manages independent shopping emporium, Afflecks, in Manchester City Centre.

Bruntwood provides everything from coworking space and meeting rooms, to serviced, managed and leased offices along retail and leisure space.

Alongside the workspace portfolio, Bruntwood’s focus is to form long-term consultation-led partnerships to revitalise town centres. Through a community-focussed approach to regeneration, Bruntwood aims to ensure social, economic and environmental sustainability and to create vibrant places that are dynamic, inspirational and futureproof.

In 2019, to support its focus on consultation-led partnerships to revitalise town centres, through a community-focussed approach to regeneration, the business formed a £50 million joint venture with Trafford Council. Together they made a long-term commitment to transform Stretford and Altrincham town centres and the residential elements at Lumina Village, the former Kellogg’s site in Old Trafford. In 2022, Bruntwood formed a further joint venture with Bury Council to acquire the Mill Gate shopping centre in Bury town centre, as part of a wider regeneration plan.

As part of its joint venture approach, Bruntwood blends retail, leisure, commercial and residential space to encourage interaction and create communities, helping to support the long-term, sustainable growth of the local economy.

Recognising the urgency of the climate crisis, Bruntwood is committed to a sustainable and fair future, and was the UK’s first commercial property company to sign up to the UK Green Building Council’s Advancing Net Zero Programme. By 2030, Bruntwood will operate at net zero carbon in the areas under its direct control and in the construction of new builds and major redevelopments across its portfolio, and will be a net zero business by 2050.

Since 2018, Bruntwood has been a shareholder in Bruntwood SciTech - the UK’s leading developer of city-wide innovation ecosystems and specialist environments helping companies – particularly those in the science and technology sectors – to form, scale and grow.

A joint venture between Bruntwood, L&G and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), Bruntwood SciTech provides high quality office and laboratory space and tailored business support, offering unrivalled access to finance, talent and markets, an extensive clinical, academic and public partner network and a sector-specialist community of more than 1450 customers.

Bruntwood SciTech is experienced in creating and developing strategic partnerships with UK regional cities, universities and NHS Trusts to drive economic growth. Its unique structure and funding vehicle more easily deploys long-term patient capital in innovation infrastructure, ensuring local economic benefit and growth.

Valued at £1.6bn, Bruntwood SciTech has a portfolio of 5.8m sq ft across 11 campus locations and 31 city centre innovation hubs in Manchester, Cheshire, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Cambridge. It has plans to create a £5bn portfolio by 2033 and has a 900k sq ft secured development pipeline.

Its campus locations include Alderley Park in Cheshire; West Village in Leeds; Innovation Birmingham; Birmingham Health Innovation Campus in partnership with the University of Birmingham; Melbourn Science Park in Cambridgeshire; Liverpool Science Park as a shareholder in Sciontec Liverpool;; and a cluster in the heart of Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor knowledge quarter - Manchester Science Park, Citylabs in partnership with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), Circle Square - a joint venture with Vita Group; and the £1.7bn JV partnership with The University of Manchester - Sister, formerly known as ID Manchester.

Its city centre innovation hubs include Bloc, Bond, 111 Piccadilly, Pall Mall and Thread Works in Manchester; Platform in Leeds; Cornerblock and Centre City in Birmingham; and The Plaza in Liverpool.

Bruntwood also actively collaborates with ambitious and ground-breaking arts and cultural organisations, in addition to supporting environmental, civic and charitable initiatives through the Oglesby Charitable Trust.

The business in-sources as many functions as it can and in particular those with a customer facing element. This is an important part of the business model and drives greater insight, better delivery and more targeted support for our customers. The delivery of these areas by in-house teams supports a flexible and personal service offer, which in turn has led to customer retention rates that vastly exceed the national average.

At the end of the year the group and joint venture employed 1238 people to provide management services and support to all Bruntwood companies. Over 185 of these people have been with the business for more than 10 years.

Our Purpose

At the heart of everything our colleagues do is our core purpose – Creating Thriving Cities. This purpose is underpinned by our values. Our commitment to help eradicate modern slavery aligns closely with our values. The company has a low risk of slavery or human trafficking among our workforce. Our business is within the UK and accordingly our geographic risk of slavery and human trafficking is considered to be low.

Our Suppliers

We have over 1,900 direct suppliers providing goods and services to the Bruntwood Group. These suppliers range in size from small owner managed businesses to larger regional and national companies.

We are committed to conducting business in a lawful and ethical manner. In particular, we will not tolerate slavery and/or human trafficking. Bruntwood expects its suppliers, contractors and service providers (“Suppliers”) to also support the elimination of such practices. Our values reflect our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and our systems and controls ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains. We expect all of our Suppliers to comply with our policy.

Bruntwood expects all of its suppliers, contractors and service providers to act ethically, with integrity and to have in place effective systems and controls to combat modern slavery anywhere in their own business or in any of their supply chains. Before a new supplier, contractor or service provider is approved, appropriate due diligence on the supplier will be carried out depending on their assessed risk. As part of the process, the supplier’s policies may be reviewed or they may be required to adhere to our policy if they do not have their own policy in this area. New suppliers will only be approved once they satisfy Bruntwood's due diligence process.

Bruntwood will view any breaches by a supplier of these practices or the supplier’s contractual commitments (if any) very seriously. Breaches may result in Bruntwood requiring an immediate remediation plan. We may also terminate our relationship with any supplier that is in breach or fails to cooperate with remedying a breach. We will continue to monitor the safeguards listed above and consider implementation of further measures if required. We know that the risk of Modern Slavery is dynamic and ever-evolving. For this reason, we intend to regularly review our approach to assessing and mitigating the risk of Modern Slavery.

Reviewed April 2026