Corporate Responsibility
Value Retail’s corporate responsibility approach is fundamental in terms of scope, values, behaviours and ethics.

Value Retail is a major direct employer and a generator of indirect employment in each of the communities in which it works. It creates lasting partnerships with the Village communities and local stakeholders. To read the Value Retail statement on modern slavery and human trafficking, please click here.

Value Retail is committed to an open, transparent and collaborative approach with taxing authorities in all countries in which it operates. To read the Value Retail statement on its tax strategy, please
click here.

To read the Value Retail PLC Gender Pay Gap Summary Report for 2017, please click here. To read the 2018 Summary Report, please click here.

Value Retail promotes the principle of sustainability in all facets of the business while ensuring that it maintains the benchmarks of design and quality in the Villages. We use recognised building certification schemes to ensure the best-balanced outcome is achieved at the design and construction stage and have a programme in place to improve the operating performance of the Villages from an environmental perspective.

Recent building certification actions include achieving BREEAM-In-Use certifications at four of the Villages, and BREEAM New Construction certifications for Kildare Village, La Roca Village, and Suzhou Village. Kildare Village and La Roca Village have received design stage ratings of ‘Excellent’.

We continue to improve our environmental management processes and have installed a half-hourly metering infrastructure to measure and optimise our use of energy and water. To read the Sustainability Report for The Bicester Village Shopping Collection in Europe, please click here. To read the Sustainability Report for The Bicester Village Shopping Collection in China, please click here.

Value Retail has a range of policies and procedures in place to address governance issues, including our Anti-Bribery Policy, Personal Data Protection Policy, Information Security Policy, as well as our ‘Speak Up’ programme, which empowers employees to raise any concerns that they might have. Recent actions include updates to our mandatory training across these topics, and communications activity to raise the profile of our SpeakUp programme.

Supporting Local Communities and Charities
We aspire to improve the lives of our brands, our guests and our colleagues.

Additionally, we're privileged to partner with a network of 10 charitable organisations through our DO GOOD programme, unified by the shared mission to empower women and children: Barretstown Camp in Ireland and L’ENVOL Camp in France; Make-A-Wish; Great Ormond Street Hospital; IntoUniversity; Adream; Women for Women International; World Connect; charity: water; Brides do Good, and Smart Works. The Bicester Village Shopping Collection’s charity partners are embedded within the local communities in which it operates, as well as in communities in need around the world. Recent actions linked to the DO GOOD programme include fundraising events (such as auctions and steps challenges) and Value Retail wide webinars to raise awareness of the partner charities and how our colleagues can help.

We continue to promote the work of other organisations, including Partners In Health, which works with national governments to provide care and strengthen public health systems in areas including cancer and chronic disease, child health, emergency response, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, mental health, and tuberculosis.