Surridge Profile

Introduction
New for 2011, high performance cricket clothing for adults and children.

Product Range
Sportswear, Cricket Clothing, Childrenswear. Until we have uploaded the full content onto our website you can find Surridge products in The Big Directory.

Ethical & Environmental Policies
The following text comes from Sports Direct, the owner of the Slazenger and Surridge brands...

Sports Direct Community Statement

(includes Slazenger and Surridge)

The Group endeavours to promote the participation in a wide range of sporting activities primarily for children that would not normally have access to the expertise or equipment needed for the sport.

Slazenger are the exclusive cricket equipment supplier to the country’s most recognised grassroots cricket development programme, ‘Chance to Shine’, which is run through the English Cricket Board’s charitable arm, the Cricket Foundation. ‘Chance to Shine’ is a national campaign delivered through individual projects throughout England and Wales. Each project provides a structured coaching and competition programme for a group of schools that would not normally have the chance to participate in the sport. The schools are supported by professional qualified coaches, who are specifically trained to work in a school environment, as well as providing equipment and training for teachers.

In 2009, ‘Chance to Shine’ benefitted 384,105 children and 3,343 schools. It provided over 109,332 hours of coaching along with cricket equipment to the value of £130,000, supplied by Slazenger, to enable the programme to run successfully. One million children have now been involved in ‘Chance to Shine’ since its introduction 5 years ago.

In addition, Dunlop’s global “D Squad” talent support programme continues to increase participation and performance levels of the most talented juniors in tennis from around the world. Over 800 children are continuing to benefit from the programme as a result of sporting equipment provided by Dunlop. Dunlop has supported the development of its most talented junior players through the provision of £27,000 worth of tennis equipment in the past year.

The Group also continues to supply the International Tennis Federation with tennis equipment to their Junior Development programme which promotes tournaments for young people aged between 14-18 years old in Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific regions. Dunlop donated in the region of £5,000 of equipment during the Year.

In the United States, Everlast one of the Group’s specialist boxing brands supports numerous initiatives. Everlast assists in running the New York Golden Gloves, the most prestigious amateur boxing tournament in the country by providing products such as gloves and personal protective equipment.

This is a grassroots initiative that benefits men and women age 16-34 as they compete in amateur boxing and around 900 boxers compete each year. Everlast supported this programme by supplying $20,000 worth of equipment.

Everlast donated $7,300 to the American Red Cross for Haiti Relief through its sponsorship of professional boxer and WBC Welter Weight champion Andre Berto who originates from Haiti.

Everlast is an official Breast Cancer Research Foundation Licensee. The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is dedicated to finding a cure for breast cancer by funding clinical and genetic research. The foundation benefits women of all ages who have been affected by the disease as well as women who may be at risk in their lifetime. Everlast makes donations to BCRF based on the sale of related training gloves, hand wraps and key chains. Each year Everlast donates a minimum of $15,000 to BCRF.

USA Boxing is the national governing body of amateur, Olympic-style boxing, and is the United States’ member organisation of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA). As a national governing body recognised by the United States Olympic Committee, USA Boxing is responsible for the administration, development and promotion of Olympic-style boxing and is a non-profit organisation.

Everlast assists USA Boxing with a mixture of boxing related product annually to the value of $60,000. This helps the mens, womens, and junior Olympic boxing programmes whose primary ages are 14-34 years, as well as coaches and officials.

We recognise that consumers and stakeholders are becoming increasingly interested in where we source our products.

The Group continues to procure merchandise from manufacturers who can show that they uphold ethical employment and trading practices. The Group has a Code of Ethics that it requires every supplier to adhere to. Amongst other matters the Code provides for fair treatment of workers ensuring products are made in a safe environment and in accordance with all the relevant local and national laws, by workers who are treated with respect and are paid fairly for what they do. It ensures there are no child labour and no use of illegal means or materials in the production of goods.

The Group has worked for many years with two leading supply chain companies in Singapore and in South Korea to procure much of its own brand goods.

The Group believes that using their local knowledge, expertise and experience, benefits the business and the communities in which they operate more effectively than would be the case if the Group carried on its own procurement activities in those countries. Both companies have the highest social and business ethics codes which match our Code of Ethics, the BSCI Code of Conduct (which is based upon the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights), ISO9001 and the Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000) Code.

The Group relies on those supply chain companies to inspect all suppliers and manufacturers premises. Frequent inspections are carried out randomly at short notice to ensure that the goods meet the Groups’ quality standards as well as assessing continued compliance with SA8000 and the Group’s Code of Ethics. We cease immediately to work with suppliers who do not meet our criteria.

The Group complies with an internationally recognised list of chemicals that are banned for use in fabrics. The supply chain companies conduct random tests on fabric which are then taken to a recognised laboratory for quality testing and to check that these banned chemicals are not being used.

The Group has forged long term relationships with suppliers who have demonstrated that their work practices are consistent with the Group’s standards. Approximately 40% of the Group’s current suppliers have been working with Group companies for 10 years or more.