TEMBO is an organisation which provides event organisers across the world with support with their marketing and content production. We have two divisions (PEOPLE and CONTENT) who help clients find freelance marketing and event content professionals. We also have a third division (IMPACT), which supplies clients with support through an in-house marketing agency team, comprising Marketing Managers, Executives and Assistants.

We employ under 50 staff full time, and also have people working for us at IMPACT as freelance support. Through our work we also engage with numerous suppliers of other services to the events industry.

TEMBO is committed to the principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the abolition of modern slavery and human trafficking. We acknowledge the role that we can play to help to bring this about.

We are an equal opportunities employer, fully committed to creating and ensuring a non-discriminatory, inclusive and respectful working environment for all our staff. We want all our staff to feel confident that they can expose wrongdoing without any risk to themselves.

Our recruitment and people management processes are designed to ensure that all prospective employees are legally entitled to work in the UK and to safeguard employees from any abuse or coercion.

We recognise that, as a purchaser of goods and services, we have the opportunity to influence good practices in the employment of people by other organisations.

We do not enter into business with any organisation, in the UK or abroad, which knowingly supports or is found to be involved in slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour.

Here are the steps TEMBO has taken and continues to take to understand and minimise the potential risk of modern slavery in its business and supply chains.

Due to the nature of our business, we assess ourselves to have a relatively low risk of modern slavery in our business and supply chains. Where required we procure goods and services from the UK where possible, although there are a limited number of overseas suppliers we also work with, including freelance marketers and event content professionals.

We require organisations we work with to confirm that they have fulfilled their statutory requirement to have produced a Modern Slavery Statement if they meet the criteria to do so.

The following policies are available to all staff through the ICO intranet:

• TEMBO Staff Handbook, which includes reference to:
  • Dignity at Work
  • Whistleblowing
  • Disciplinary Procedure

These policies set out the standards required of our staff and include details of the mechanisms in place which can be used report issues or concerns about Modern Slavery linked to our organisation taking place.

• Through undertaking due diligence in our activity, we seek to ensure that we do not inadvertently support Modern Slavery. We make our processes know to potential staff and suppliers as a means of encouraging good practice.
• We ensure that all staff are legally entitled to work in the UK and that the contract is directly with them.
• We also ensure that any recruitment agency we utilise for the placement of temporary staff follows the same requirements to confirm the identity and right to work of individuals placed with us.
• When we undertake a procurement process potential suppliers must self-declare that if they meet the relevant criteria in the Modern Slavery Act 2015
  • We also reserve the right to challenge any abnormally low-cost tenders to ensure they do not rely upon the potential contractor practising modern slavery.
  • We ensure that services where we have outsourced staffing requirements (cleaning and security) are through companies that also have a modern slavery statement, if that is a statutory requirement, and that all such suppliers provide information about their equality policies and practices.
  • We continually review our Procurement Processes to further embed checks on suppliers to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Modern Slavery Act 2025