1 13% undeclared (compared to 45% women and 55% men in 2020). Our second edition 4 of the S Women Leadership Programme has recently launched. We have also hired our second-year flight of Fellows for the 4 four-year, multi-practice S Fellowship Programme, who exclusively come from historically black colleges and universities in the US. To keep diversity efforts front and centre of our everyday practices, we have hired a global Chief Diversity Officer whose main task is leading our recruiting efforts, so we can discover and attract the candidates that represent our communities. • Across S4Capital we donated 1,460 hours to community and charity services and we continue to contribute to society and the needs of the planet with our Projects for Good, which are all related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021 we raised our number of projects read more for Good from 41 to 251. Read more about our ESG performance and activities on pages 16 to 27. • In regard to governance, the Company is Environment, Social and committed to good corporate governance Governance (ESG) strategy and endeavours to comply with the principles and provisions of the UK In 2021, the Company continued to raise the Corporate Governance Code, to the bar in all three areas of our ESG strategy. extent appropriate for its business. We actively track our CO emissions and The composition of the Audit and Risk • 2 Committee and the Nomination and perform competitively with a sample of Remuneration Committee, both comprised peer companies. We have committed to entirely of independent Non-Executive achieving carbon neutrality by 2024, which Directors, and the balance of the Board as we have realised in 2021 by offsetting our a whole ensures that the Board operates 4 2020 emissions in our S Forest. We have effectively within expected standards of planted over 265,000 trees and will officially corporate governance, with constructive offset our emission for 2021 in 2022 through challenge from the independent non- certified forest preservation projects. executive directors. We continue to try to These actions are taken in response to enhance the capabilities of the Board with the World Economic Forum 2020 Davos the addition of more diverse talent to add to Manifesto. We are the first advertising and the existing four female and five male Non- marketing firm to commit to the Amazon Executive Directors based in The Americas, Climate Pledge, which has a longer-term Europe, Middle East & Africa and Asia objective in relation to zero emissions. Pacific. We are seeking B Corp status across the whole Company, not just for individual offices, by 2023. • In 2021, we strengthened our hiring and educational policies in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion. With regard to gender diversity, our relative ratio has improved, with 43% women globally, 44% men and S4Capital Annual Report and Accounts 2021 13