Modern Slavery Act
D.T. Browns– Modern Slavery and Supply Chains 2025
D.T. Browns, owned Mr Fothergill’s Seeds Limited, considers its responsibility to ensure that our suppliers, partners and supply chains operate ethically a corporate priority.
D.T. Browns intends to ensure that we trade ethically, source responsibly and work to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking in our organisation (including corporate partners) and most importantly, in our supply chain. This will ensure compliance with section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015
This statement relates to our 2025-2026 financial year and Fothergill’s strategy to address any areas of risk. This statement highlights the work we are carrying out to identify and address any modern slavery in our organisation and supply chain. Work is being undertaken to actively identify potential risks through evaluation and audit of compliance.
We are a part of the Chelsea Holdco Limited Group with its head office in the UK. We have a UK based workforce in East Anglia.
We are a major supplier of seeds, plants and related gardening products in the horticultural sector. Sales are both to businesses through wholesale supply and direct to consumer through online web sales.
We have a global annual turnover of £41M.
Our suppliers are based in the UK, Europe and internationally. As part of Fothergill’s growth, we are currently in the process of putting in place an outsourcing of our UK storage and distribution company functions. This outsourcing is to a locally based logistics company partner who shares our ethics and values.
Our policies on slavery and human trafficking
We have appropriate policies in place that underpin our commitment to ensure that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business or operations. We review and develop our policies on an ongoing basis.
Fothergills are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains
Due diligence processes for modern slavery and human trafficking and next steps
We understand that the following areas give rise to the highest modern slavery risks: sourcing products from suppliers and through the supply chain.
As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk we are requiring our suppliers to complete a due diligence audit report to establish their policies, operations and compliance systems to identify risks or potential risks.
From this audit we intend to assess risk areas identified from the audit and address any risks arising or that may arise in the future as a result of information obtained from the audit. This will then allow Fothergills to develop our planned new compliance programme, monitor potential risk areas in the future and protect whistle blowers.
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This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes the slavery and human trafficking statement for Mr Fothergill’s Seeds Limited for the financial year ending April 2026. |
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Michael Yates – Chief Executive Officer |
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Date: 27th May 2025
Approved by the Board
Date: 27th May 2025
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