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BIGGER PICTURE
Impact Report 2018
Contents
Our values
Forward- Creative & Customer- Collaborative Fair &
looking action- led & & inclusive responsible
& restless oriented simplifying We believe we We believe
We believe We believe We believe are better in doing the
in building in new ideas in making when we all right thing.
a better and making things better work together.
tomorrow. them happen. and simpler.
At Sky, we’re at the heart of millions of lives, which gives us a platform to have a
positive impact in the communities in which we operate. What we choose to do
with this platform says everything about who we are. That’s why we’re guided by Our contribution
a clear purpose and values, which drive our broader contribution to society.
We believe in doing the right thing for our customers, our staff, our communities and £13.6bn 216,800 £4.8bn
our shareholders. That means being responsible in how we do business and acting Contribution to European GDP Total jobs supported Total annual tax contribution
on issues that matter. We also take the opportunity to reach beyond our business across Europe across our countries
to inspire others to take action and support young people to be their best.
Through Sky Ocean Rescue, we’ve taken the critical issue, of the health of our
oceans and identified that by inspiring action on plastics an area we can make
a significant difference.
Over the years, we’ve built a strong track record and we’re excited for what more
we can do in the future. This report highlights the work we’ve done in 2017/18 to
deliver on our ambitions and our plans for the future.
£6.3bn 30,600+ £21.9m
What’s inside Content investment Employees Community contribution
Our Bigger Picture Strategy 2
Sky Ocean Rescue Impact 4
Jeremy Darroch
Ocean health into the future 18
Group Chief Executive
Being an inspirational business 22
Standards of working 23
Inspiring young people 25
Data26
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The Bigger Picture
We believe that doing business well is the only way to do business. That means
being responsible in how we go about our business, acting on issues that matter,
inspiring young people to be their best and inspiring others to take action.
Our highlights
55% 80% 108,000+ 33.5m
Reduction in CO2e Increase in the Young people People aware
intensity in the number of attended Sky Academy of Sky Ocean
UK, exceeding scholarships Studios since Rescue in
2020 target launched 2012 our core
this year launch markets
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Taking action
Overfishing
Globally, a third of fish stocks are
at unsustainable levels and one
in three fish caught never make it
to the plate. Other animals in the
sea, such as turtles, dolphins, and
sharks are endangered as a result
of unsustainable fishing.
on plastic
Shipping
Noise and pollution
from shipping, as well as
We want to support the change being directed
collisions, causes harm at one of the biggest man-made environmental
to sea animals, especially
marine mammals. disasters that faces our planet – plastics in the
ocean. We launched Sky Ocean Rescue to raise
The threats Plastic pollution
awareness about ocean health and encourage the
to our oceans
Plastic causes untold damage
to wildlife and takes hundreds public to remove single-use plastic from their lives.”
of years to break down.
Microplastics, the small parts Jeremy Darroch
of plastic that break off as it Group Chief Executive
decomposes, have started
to enter our food stream.
Climate change
Almost a third of the world’s oil and gas
comes from under the sea – from the
tropics to the Arctic. Testing, drilling, oil
8m 50%
Acidification and warming of spills and the impacts of carbon dioxide
Tonnes of plastic
the oceans will have profound emissions, all take their toll on wildlife. a year end up Of plastic is used
ecological consequences,
in the ocean once for an average
This page was developed with WWF
+50%
An average portion Plastic is
of mussels contains now found in
about 90 pieces the deepest
Of sea turtles have of microplastic reaches of
consumed plastic the ocean
Dee Caffari – Volvo Ocean Race research team
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Our commitments
We strive to be a responsible business and we believe we can effect real change.
Sky Ocean Rescue aims to shine a spotlight on the issues that affect ocean health,
to find innovative solutions to the problem of ocean plastics, and inspire people to
make small everyday changes that, together, make a huge difference. Here’s what
we’ve committed to do and some of the highlights of what we’ve already achieved:
Goals Achievements
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Our progress
#PassOnPlastic
campaign signed by
Announcement of five year 130 MPs
WWF partnership Appointment of
January 2018 three Sky Ocean
October 2017 Rescue scholars in
partnership with World Oceans Day
Disposable coffee
cups removed from our We commit
sites, saving 7 million
coffee cups per year to being
All Sky staff single-use plastic
issued with reusable May 2018
free by 2020
water bottles and
single-use plastic
water bottles Our summit with the
removed from Premier League inspires
our sites reductions in plastics
February 2017 use
July 2018 Our branded
Sky Mobile SIM products will
be single-use
Card goes single-use plastic free
plastic free
Launch of Sky Ocean Our Oceans Conference
Rescue campaign with April 2018
Sky News Documentary Announcement of our
single-use plastic vision
A Plastic Tide
October 2017
January 2017
Business challenge
for the mobile Our operations
front of house will
industry on single- be 100% single-use
use plastics plastic free
June 2018
Sky Ocean Rescue
Café single-use
plastic free
January 2018
25 %
Launch of Sky
Soundbox, our
first new single-
use plastic free Our logistics will be 25%
product single-use plastic free
Sky and The Oval
join forces on plastic November 2017 December 2018
at 100th test match
August 2017
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In March 2018, we announced our £25m anchor Impact objectives
commitment and the launch of Sky Ocean Ventures.
We’re reporting against the UN Sustainable
This impact investment model is committed to
Development Goals 12 – Responsible Consumption
fostering an innovation ecosystem, investing early
and Production, and 14 – Life Below Water. We’ll
in mission-driven entrepreneurs, supporting,
Accelerating ideas to solve the ocean plastic crisis mentoring and accelerating these young businesses
invest in commercially sustainable business models
that can deliver impactful solutions. We’ll track and
and amplifying their impact using our platforms.
report specific data from our portfolio companies
Technology focus areas and as we help these companies grow, we’ll report
on the complete portfolio results of how our
We’re looking for early stage companies creating:
companies have reduced single-use plastic usage
• Scalable innovations along the entire plastics and leakage, improved the recycling rates and end-
value chain, from material to end of life of-life value of plastics, and increased awareness
Sky Ocean Ventures is a bold new creation that will • Technology-enhanced business models that
of plastics.
support breakthrough thinking and invest in promising foster responsible consumption and drive the
circular economy model
new ideas to help turn off the plastics tap. We look forward • Efficiency improvements in the recycling, clean-up
to working with like-minded organisations to help us find and treatment of waste plastics.
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How we’re removing single-use
plastic from our operations
At the 2017 Our Ocean Conference, hosted by the Our production process How we’re transforming our catering operations
European Union, we announced our commitment to
Over the year, we’ve made good progress removing
transform our business by eliminating all single-use
single-use plastic from the creation of our TV
plastics from our operations, products and supply
shows. We provided reusable bottles on sets such
chain by 2020. January 2017
as A League of Their Own and for outside sports
This is a journey that involves tough decisions broadcasts like darts, cricket and football we no We removed over 500,000
and complex challenges. It’s taking hard work by longer use single-use plastic bottles. We also plastic water bottles per year,
our people and partners, but it’s also exciting. made changes to remove plastic cutlery and Sky Ocean that’s 8 tonnes.
The commitment has galvanised our people who polystyrene from our outside broadcasts, and on Rescue launch
want to see the significant change that’s possible productions, introduced warm flannels to remove January 2017
by eliminating plastic. make-up, replacing the use of thousands of wet
wipes. We engage our suppliers in the journey and
We started by removing disposable plastic water May 2017
include our single-use plastic policy when renewing
bottles and providing everyone with a refillable contracts. On an industry level, we work with the
We removed 72,500 plastic straws.
bottle. We saved approximately 500,000 plastic BAFTA Albert Consortium to share learnings on how
bottles in a year. Our approach is to reduce or to make quick changes to reduce single-use plastics
remove wherever we can, by auditing all our single- and identify the industry-wide challenges that there
use plastic and taking away things like plastic aren’t any current solutions for. We also support
straws, disposable cutlery and milk bottles. We then Albert to integrate measurement of single-use April 2018
reuse anything that can’t be removed, and when we plastic into their calculator tool. We removed 2 million sachets.
can’t reuse, we will recycle.
Having removed big everyday items, we’re now Working with our catering partners
focused on finding even more innovative solutions. Having launched our single-use plastic free Sky
The approach we take when looking at alternatives Ocean Rescue café at our Osterley campus, we May 2018
is to make sure we have an overall positive impact set about sharing the lessons across the business We removed 24 tonnes of plastic milk
on the environment. in order to significantly reduce single-use plastic bottles replaced by chilled
across all our catering outlets. Working with our milk stations.
We still face some challenges. One is in our cleaning partner, Gather & Gather, we aim to remove all front-
services where we’re looking into developing of-house single-use plastic by the end of the year.
technology for viable alternatives to bin bags We’re working on innovative solutions like a circular
and shrink wrap. June 2018
economy approach to our food packaging so it can
be continually recycled back to the same product. We removed 7 million coffee cups
and 3 million lids – pay back is realised
within 3 months.
June 2018
20 tonnes of cutlery removed.
“Change is very visible in the
company – it’s hard not to
see. Everyone is drinking from
December 2018
reusable bottles and coffee
cups. Information is throughout
the offices. Interesting how quickly End of
All single-use plastic will
be removed from Sky’s
front of house operations.
122.5
tonnes of plastic
habits form.” 2018 will be saved
Sky employee
End Our operations will be
Sky Ocean Rescue café 2020 single-use plastic free
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How we’re removing single-use An external review of our
plastic from our products business transformation
by University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Leadership is from the top down – it’s front and centre of the Engagement
business strategy. It’s promoted by the executive. It filters all the and change
way through from Jeremy down.”
1
Cardboard packaging Main box Accessories
Set an ambitious target
to be single-use plastic free
Management 8
Internal engagement
100% fully recyclable, Our new design A compartment is built as a business by 2020
FSC paper only. eliminated the need to in to hold cables in created a significant shift
protect the box with a place without plastic in behaviour
plastic bag. bags or ties.
5 9
Sky Mobile SIM Working with Unipart, logistics partner Leadership Governance & accountability External engagement
Sky Ocean Rescue worked in partnership with
We’ve significantly reduced the use of plastic in “I’m incredibly proud of the hard work, creative Steering Group suppliers to innovate
our Sky Mobile SIM card by supplying it without thinking, and passion that our people have
the traditional credit card surround. The SIM put into significantly reducing the usage of
card is glued to card, folded
and closed with a paper seal.
single-use plastic.
2 6 10
It’s a big undertaking, but we won’t rest until Systematic approach Systematic change
We reuse all plastic surplus from Sky culture established a baseline and
we have found ways to eliminate all single-use influenced beyond
the manufacturing process to existing values and ethos to tracked progress the business
make more cards, so the process plastic from the supply chain. ‘do the right thing’
is free of plastic waste. As a key partner of Sky, we are proud to support
the incredible work they have been doing with
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Sky Soundbox Sky Ocean Rescue to highlight the issue and
Leadership from the top
Budget and resources
At Sky, we don’t want it to be a
inspire action. delivered within existing
This presented an exciting challenge to our design clearly defined budgets and resources flash in the pan – want to make
team, to find a new way of protecting the In line with Unipart’s commitment to responsible the ambition sure it’s sustainable and keep a
Soundbox and deliver an amazing unboxing business, we wanted to take the lead in our legacy going.”
experience. A layered cardboard
structure supports a cardboard
pulp overlay to encase the
industry, and ensure we are doing absolutely
everything we can to eliminate plastic from 4 We opened up every box, took
our customers’ supply chains.” Leadership at all levels
product. The internal structure responsibility taken to embed pictures, removed everything.
fits into a sleeve that carries Claire Walters in own area of the business Handling it gave us ideas for
the Sky Soundbox brand. Chief Commercial Officer, Unipart Logistics potential solutions.”
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Using our voice What we’ve achieved so far:
Volvo Ocean Race team
to inspire action ‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’
won The Beyond Sport
Award for The Best
Since the launch of Sky Ocean Rescue with the Partnerships Corporate Campaign
groundbreaking documentary ‘A plastic Tide’, Sky
News have created a further five documentaries
In March 2018 we announced that we are joining in the Sport for
and covered ocean health on a daily basis. The
forces with the Premier League into the fight
against single-use plastic. By working together we’re Good category
coverage has won awards including a Golden Nymph
aiming to encourage and provide advice to help
at the Monte Carlo Film Festival.
football clubs go single-use plastic free. And we
“So many other media outlets are now talking about
it. W hen we launched last January nobody was
talking plastic, and now everyone’s talking about it
hope to inspire many fans to #PassOnPlastic and
develop new resources for schools through the
Premier League Primary Stars programme. We held
33.5m
and that is so exciting and makes us feel really proud.” a summit where Sky, the Premier League, Clubs and aware of Sky Ocean
Helen-Ann Smith, SOR Documentary Producer. NGOs shared their stories and ideas of how to make Rescue*
changes. 74% of attendees said they were inspired
4m
Customer engagement to swap merchandise packaging for single-use
In January, we celebrated one year of Sky Ocean plastic free alternative and 86% of Clubs want to
Rescue by encouraging everyone to join us and engage fans with the single-use plastic problem.
#PassOnPlastic and make simple everyday changes inspired or changed
to cut down on single-use plastic. Since then over behaviour
33.5million people have shown their support and
over 220 MPs and MEPs got involved.
6 tonnes
of single-use plastic and
other issues facing Sailing has a vested interest in ensuring the health
our ocean. of our oceans. That’s why we teamed up with
‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’, skippered by Dee Caffari,
competing in the Volvo Ocean Race. The team of single-use plastic
Inspired by Sky Ocean Rescue Yuvraj Rathore,
worked to promote the UN Clean Seas campaign avoided at the Kia Oval
and the message reached millions of people
aged 7, wrote to Jeremy in November 2017 during stopovers.
explaining how he had been watching the
Sky Ocean Rescue programmes and news The ‘team also collected seawater samples that
and learning about how “plastic bags were tested for microplastics as well as levels
and bottles are getting in to the sea of salinity, dissolved CO2 and algae. The findings
and killing the whales”. were uploaded ‘open source’ to benefit scientific
understanding of the plastic threat. “Sky Ocean Rescue are doing fantastic things
Yuvraj wanted to help, so we took for our oceans. What I hope we can achieve
Plasticus to his school and now In Italy, we’ve partnered with the VR 46 Moto GP together, is to take the level of consciousness that
Yuvraj and his friends have team to raise awareness with fans and improve
been making changes recycling practices at the Misano Grand Prix. Sky has already helped create, to the next level
in their school and talking of real understanding of the issue and turn that
to others. Yuvraj wrote a into action.”
beautiful poem which you
can read on the back page Emily Penn
of this report. Skipper and Sky Ocean Rescue Ambassador
*Incite research 2018, from a survey of 24,268 nationally representative interviews across the UK, Germany and Italy.
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Sky Ocean Rescue Protecting our
scholars oceans with WWF
We aim to inspire young people to be their Introducing Dr Martina Capriotti Sky Ocean Rescue aims to create a legacy for ocean
Lundy Island MPA
best, that’s why we’ve partnered with National health. This isn’t something we can do alone. That’s
Martina Capriotti grew up next to the Adriatic
Geographic to support three Sky Ocean why we partnered with WWF to protect our oceans, Protecting and making our oceans more resilient
Sea in Italy and developed a strong passion for
Rescue Scholars to drive research that will so they’re resilient to challenges like plastic pollution. helps not only marine animals, but also those
protecting the beauty and health of the ocean
raise awareness of the issues surrounding who live and work on the coasts. People like Ben
through scuba diving. It was while scuba diving that We’re working together to support Marine Protected
ocean health and advance our knowledge of Bengey, who at 21 years old has just bought a
she realised the extent of pollution in the ocean, Areas (MPAs), special areas of the ocean where human
the ocean. Sky Ocean Rescue and National new fishing boat.
and particularly how fish grazed around it. Martina’s activity is managed, similar to national parks on land.
Geographic are offering the young innovators,
studies have focused on marine environments They’re an essential conservation tool to improve the Ben loves fishing, but his boat will pay for itself
who are passionate about our oceans, support
and toxicology to date, leading to a PhD from health of the ocean and allow marine environments through eco-tourism - cruising through Lundy’s
and mentoring for their marine-based
the University of Camerino (Italy). to recover from degradation, including impacts from spectacular bird and marine life, and taking
research projects.
shipping, mining, overfishing, climate change and divers to the marine nature reserve.
As an Ocean Rescue Scholar, Martina is developing
At National Geographic’s Festival of Science plastic pollution.
an innovative approach for testing the chemical Fishing is tough, Ben told us. For him and others
in Rome in April 2018, we announced the three
impact of microplastics on marine life in the • Over five years we’re donating £10 million to WWF. like him, the dual income is essential. Ben is a
Sky Ocean Rescue Scholars for 2018, who are:
seas around her native Italy. She hopes that the first-generation fisherman. He chose this line of
Imogen Napper – The Future of Clothes Washing outcomes of this project will benefit the scientific • By the end of this commitment, in 2023, WWF
work because he loves to be out on the water.
Plymouth, UK community in helping to understand the impact will have put in place stronger protection for
of plastic in the ocean. over 400,000 km2 of ocean from unsustainable The protections
Annette Fayet – Why are puffins going extinct? and damaging practices so marine life can thrive being put in place
Oxford, UK once again. around beautiful
Martina Capriotti Lundy (Norse for
• We’ll create a model and strong case for good MPA
San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy “Puffin”) Island
management and leave a legacy of inspired people,
should ensure
businesses and governments who want to be part of
the livelihoods of
this crucial work.
people like Ben
are sustained, and
“It’s a privilege for me to have been the environment
chosen to be part of this big continues to be
family that bases its principles enjoyed by all.
on the discovery and protection
of the environment and its
living beings. Marine protected areas funded
by Sky Ocean Rescue
My ambition for the next year is
to research, day after day, without
thinking about a project that
Devon and Outer Hebrides
marine protected areas
will finish, but thinking about
Harbour porpoise special
a project that is in constant areas of conservation
development, contributing
German North Sea
marine protected area
to the progress of science.” & Wadden Sea marine
Dr Martina Capriotti protected areas
Sky Ocean Rescue Scholar
The Pelagos Sanctuary
Mediterranean cetacean
migration corridor
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A legacy for ocean health
An independent review by Forum for the Future
How we accelerate
At Sky we know there’s momentum happening Through research and interviews Forum for the Here are the key lessons from Forum for the • Be bold in ambition (and flexible): It is critical to
in the world of ocean health and plastics, but we Future have identified nine strategies that we Future’s review: set ambition based on the change we need to see.
wanted to understand how far it has come. That’s believe have the potential to support systemic At Sky, we set the ambition of becoming single-use
why we asked Forum for the Future to carry out an change in the plastic system today – as well as • Diagnose the system: Start to map out how plastic free by 2020 well before we had a plan on
independent review of how people, businesses and in tackling sustainability challenges more broadly. the plastic system works and how it is changing how we would achieve this.
governments are changing their approach to the to help inform your strategy. For Sky, we
use of single-use plastics. We have concluded that this is the start-up phase started by raising the public’s awareness of • Plan for disruption: Businesses with incremental
of change in the plastics system, but with the issue of plastic pollution and working out targets for recycling and recyclability, or ones
Forum for the Future reviewed the ‘plastic system’ the opportunity to move into the acceleration how it was being used within our business and which are not moving fast enough, are likely
through a framework called the Multi-level phase if we play things right. supply chain. to be disrupted. At Sky, we moved fast, making
Perspective, which helps to explain long-term shifts. immediate changes even when they were
They mapped some of the things that have already Forum for the Future are preparing to launch their • Understand your leverage points: What can disruptive and we didn’t have all the solutions yet.
taken place, and are happening now in the world research following this report and together, we are you change to help influence the system. For Sky
of ocean plastics. hoping to inspire others with the aim of moving into our opportunity was through using our voice • Experiment and learn: Create experiments with
the acceleration phase to create a significant and through our news and TV programming to an active learning component to balance the
long lasting change. effect change. short-term need to act with the importance of
implementing long-term changes to the system
that stand the test of time. At Sky, we challenged
ourselves to come up with innovative new
Ocean plastic: a story of system change by Forum for the Future solutions which often resulted in a better finished
product for the long term.
Phase of change Start up Acceleration Stabilisation • Collaborate with others: This is vital to align
and complement existing activity and to amplify
change. Sky held events across Europe to bring
Landscape: The big together industries to discuss the challenges,
picture ‘operating context’ solutions and share learnings as we know we can
of long-term megatrends Create a robust case only change the plastic system through everyone
and shared social values for change by generating working together.
Shift culture and
science-based information • Tackle the elephant: How can what you do drive
behaviours to enable
a new mainstream mindset and behaviour shifts which fundamentally
transform the plastic system. At Sky we’ve faced
the challenges head on, engaging our people, our
customers and suppliers to get everyone talking
Regime: The mainstream, about the challenge and solutions.
day-to-day ‘business • Stick it out: Change is hard and slow, particularly
as usual’ transformational change that profoundly shifts
Make the information Create collaborations to Develop policies (2) that reinforce
the way the mainstream operates. We are on
widely accessible align mindsets and goals, systemic transformation
the brink of a system change and so it’s more
enable shared learning,
important than ever we keep accelerating so
and spark new innovations
people don’t become fatigued and support
for the issue starts to wane.
• Start now! There will never be a ‘perfect’ moment
Develop policies (1) Create the right incentives, business Develop rules, measures for action in a system which is constantly and
that facilitate systemic models and financing to help and standards for the rapidly changing, as plastics is today. For this
transformation the mainstream adapt to change new mainstream reason it is important to start now, and to learn
from and evolve interventions for change as you
go. At Sky, we encourage everyone to start now
on this journey with us as together we can create
Niche: The margins lasting change.
of the mainstream
Create routes for new innovations
Create new to scale and mainstream
disruptive innovations
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Being an inspirational Setting the highest
business standards of working
At Sky, we’re committed to doing the right thing Strong partnerships are a key way for Responsible sourcing Accessibility
and beyond this, inspiring others to do the same. us to support the transition to a low
Our ethical, social and environmental standards We aim to connect all our customers to more of
carbon economy. This year we have joined
Environment the Cities C40 group, working with the
are integral to our culture and key to the way we what they love and work to make our TV content,
collaborate with our suppliers. We make sure our products and customer service accessible to all,
We aim to be the most environmentally friendly Greater London Authority, the B team and others
responsible sourcing principles are met through regardless of impairments.
media company in the world. to push ambitious targets to make London the
risk assessment, training and collaboration
world’s greenest global city. Over 80% of our Sky linear and On Demand
Our strategy ensures that we consider the with suppliers.
entertainment is now available with subtitles, and
environment in everything we do – from the energy We also encourage climate action with our
In total, suppliers that account for over 90% we continue to work with third party broadcasters
consumption of our buildings through to the suppliers,through the Carbon Disclosure Project’s
of our spend on goods and services responded to provide access services On Demand. We audio
components we use in our products. This strategy (CDP) Supply Chain work. Currently, 78% of our
to environmental, social and ethical questions. describe just under 30% of our linear TV content,
has served us well. We’ve achieved a 55% reduction top 50 suppliers have integrated climate change
Our high risk product suppliers are subject to a going beyond the Ofcom requirement of 10% and
in carbon intensity against our 2008/09 baseline, initiatives into their strategies.
four-year rolling audit programme by a third party are working to improve the accessibility of our
two years ahead of target. We are now setting our
We continue to develop better, more sustainable supplier. Ten further audits are carried out by the On Demand content.
path towards net zero carbon by 2050 across the
products and we’re working to eliminate single-use Responsible Business Alliance each year.
Sky Group. We are proud of the work of our audio describers do
plastic in our products. This year, we removed all
We are aware that some manufacturers may at Sky’s head office in West London. We match their
We’ve been focused on the energy efficiency of our plastic packaging from Sky Q, the NOW TV Smart
conceal issues during our audits. To take steps to voice and expertise to each programme and make
buildings and increasing investment in renewable Stick and Sky Mobile SIM card packaging, and
mitigate this, we developed training for other types sure they stay consistent throughout each series.
energy. In our Sky Central building, we’ve realised launched Sky Soundbox, our first new product with
of factory visitors, including engineers, buyers and
further efficiencies better aligning our generators plastic-free packaging. By the end of 2018, all of our
quality managers, to increase capacity to recognise
to office capacity. Sky branded products will be single-use plastic free.
indicators of potential forced or child labour.
We remain committed to using 100% renewable Read more in our Sky Ocean Rescue
energy in our operations and we continue to offset Impact Report. Human rights
any unavoidable emissions to maintain our carbon In Germany, by focusing on sustainability and In line with our values, we respect the rights of
neutral status. Going forward, we will capitalise on carefully considering product recycling in the design everyone we impact. Our approach is based on the
our investments in photovoltaic cells to harness of Sky+Pro, we’ve been able to refurbish and return International Bill of Human Rights, the International TV
solar energy for our buildings, on-site wind turbines over 90% of all set-top boxes to market over the Labour Organisation Conventions and the UN We’re continually improving our
and a combined cooling heat and power unit (CCHP) past 12 months. In addition, following a review of Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. audio description, sign language
aiming towards net zero carbon by 2050. our investments in environmental efficiencies, Our focus has evolved as our understanding of and subtitles across our channels.
Sky Deutschland has been awarded the Ökoprofit where the risks lie has increased. Our significant This year, we completed the work to
environmental certification, further cementing our focus is now on products and merchandise along enable subtitles on demand for our
position as an environmental leader. with TV, sports and news production. entertainment across all NOW TV,
including our iOS and Android Apps.
Our Human Rights Steering Group involves
representatives from across the business whose Products
role it is to address salient issues and to identify Sky Q is a highly accessible product and its roll out
opportunities for leadership. Our commitments in Germany and Italy has improved accessibility
55%
are on our website, our Ways of Working document settings there. Voice control and
and our Responsible Sourcing Policy for suppliers. search make finding and playing
We also provide training to relevant teams on entertainment very easy, and we’re
reduction in carbon intensity modern slavery. working and we are working on
improving access for our visually
two years ahead of target We work with others in our industry through our impaired customers.
memberships with the Responsible Business
Alliance and TechUK. We’re a founding member Customers
100%
renewable energy commitment
of BAFTA’s TV Industry and Human Rights
Working Group, sharing insight and building
industry knowledge.
We have a dedicated customer service team for
customers with accessibility needs. Our team of 220
agents are specially trained to give additional support
Our CEO Jeremy Darroch this year joined the Home and make adjustments to help all
in our operations Office’s Business Against Slavery Forum, discussing
customers make the most of our
service. We work closely with our
leadership in tackling modern slavery. customers, the RNIB and other
Read more about our work on human rights in our partners to keep improving our
offering to them.
Modern Slavery Statement.
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Setting the highest standards of working continued
Inspiring young
Protecting the family Inclusion
people to be their best
We want Sky to be the safest place for families
to enjoy entertainment online, on screen and It’s our people that make us Europe’s
on mobile. leading entertainment company, so
we’re working hard to build a diverse We take high potential young people Sky Academy Studios
Sky Broadband Shield is switched on by default and inclusive organisation where and support them to thrive.
Through Sky Academy Studios, we’re bringing young
and helps families filter website content across everyone can be themselves and deliver their This year we added Sky Women in Tech and Sky people behind the scenes of TV to make news reports
all internet-connected devices in the home. best work. Ocean Rescue to our scholars programme across using state of the art technology. This year, we have
our European markets. These provide a unique introduced fictional storytelling and future innovation
We are a founding member of Internet Matters, We want every voice to be heard and every combination of financial support, personal
and continue to strongly support it. We are person to feel confident sharing their own ideas into our creativity workshops.
development, learning, mentoring and practical
particularly proud that 2.5 million people visited perspective to help us fulfil our purpose. experience of the world beyond their area “The organisation and structure of the workshop
Internetmatters.org last year. We’re building an inclusive culture for everyone. of expertise. fosters ambition, creativity and independence
We have played a prominent role in public We’re aiming for a gender-balanced leadership as each pupil embraces their own role within
We’re also opening young minds to the amazing the project.” Primary school teacher, Scotland.
discussions about how to make the UK the safest team and to increase the number of women world of media and entertainment through Sky
place to be online. This year we commissioned an working in our technology and engineering Academy Studios and our support for the MAMA As part of our commitment to bring Sky Academy in
independent report “Keeping Consumers Safe teams. In April, we published our Gender Pay Youth project. Italy, we have deepened our focus on media literacy,
Online: Legislating for platform accountability for Gap Report, summarising the work we’re doing an important issue for students in developing a critical
online content”. to increase the representation of women in our approach to news. Sky Academy also went on the
On screen, we provide a range of family-friendly
workforce and close our gender pay gap. Spotlight on Sky Sports Scholars road to the National Geographic Festival in Rome, with
settings and products to help kids and their families We’re aiming to increase Black, Asian and We’re committed to supporting sports at all special guests including Sylvia Earle, American explorer.
access our shows safely, such as the Sky Kids app, Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation both levels and with Sky Sports Scholarships, we’re
now supporting 12 of Europe’s most promising
MAMA Youth
which gives children their own profiles with content on-screen and behind the scenes. This year we
tailored to their age, as well as setting viewing launched our Digify programme, in partnership young athletes to be the best they can be. The MAMA Youth Project provides media and
time limits. with Livity, providing training and work The Scholarship programme has opened its entertainment industry training for 18-25 year olds
placements to talented digital creatives from doors to athletes from a wider range of sports from under-represented groups. Over the last year,
Data governance BAME backgrounds. this year and for the first time, includes Scholars we supported 24 young people through an intensive
We’re responsible for safeguarding personal and specialising in tennis, modern pentathlon training programme, as well as work experience
This year we’ve seen two new employee networks and climbing. placements with us and our partners. 98% of the
commercial data. It’s key that we get this right for
launch: multiculture@sky and body&mind@sky. project’s graduates have gone on to work in the media.
our customers, our people and our partners.
They join our existing LGBT+@sky, parents@sky,
We worked to make sure our data governance and women@sky networks to help more of our “Working with Sky and Last year, MAMA Youth moved into a permanent
communication engages employees through our people connect, get involved and thrive at Sky. previous Sky Sports Scholar home at our Osterley campus. This means a closer
working relationship and opportunities such as a
three R’s approach – Responsibility, Respect and Sam Oldham has really helped partnership with CPL, a production company that work
Reputation, with champions across the business.
This year we successfully launched our General
Find out more at corporate.sky.com/inclusion build my confidence. I look on our A League of Their Own, who will now provide
Data Protection Regulation Readiness programme. forward to helping inspire production support to MAMA Youth.
other young people.“
On screen standards
Between July 2017 and June 2018, Ofcom
investigated 74 complaints across our
Joe Fraser
Sky Sports Scholar, Gymnast
108k
Young people have now visited
Entertainment, Sports and News channels.
This compared to 55 complaints in 2016/17 and 74 Sky Academy Studios since opening
complaints in 2015/16. There have been four upheld our doors 2012
adjudications this year based on the television
regulator investigations.
Our high standard of customer service has been
recognised by Ofcom, and we have received the
20%
Of Sky Sports Scholars have won
lowest level of complaints in the watchdog’s medals on the world stage
quarterly report for nine consecutive quarters.
98%
MAMA Youth graduates have gone
on to work in the media
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Group environment data UK and Ireland environment data
Group carbon emissions and carbon intensity1,2 UK and Ireland carbon emissions and carbon intensity
We have been reporting our carbon footprint for the Group energy on our sites, including photovoltaic cells (solar PV), In the UK and Ireland this year we have hit a number of our We’ve implemented more renewable energy on our sites
since 2005/06 including our businesses in the UK, Ireland, wind and geothermal. This year we‘re setting new Group environment targets three years early and as a result are including photovoltaic cells (solar PV), with the latest in
Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. Our Group targets relating to our carbon footprint which support reviewing our targets going forward. In the UK and Ireland Milan, Italy.
carbon intensity has decreased from 8.73 tCO2e/£m the transition to net carbon zero by 2050, from a 2015/16 we have reduced our carbon intensity since 2008/09
revenue to 8.4 tCO2e/£m this financial year. We continue baseline, when we first reported as a group. by 55% and are sending zero waste to landfill. We have Going forward we’re setting new ambitious Group-wide
to focus on energy consumption and invest in renewable significantly reduced our waste quantities this year, by 19%, environment targets for energy, transport, waste and
and we are focused on reducing this further and recycling a water. We’re reviewing our current programmes and future
Sky Group Sky Group Sky Group UK and Italy Germany opportunities to make the leaps forward that we need for
2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 Ireland 2017/18 and Austria greater proportion of our remaining waste.
net-zero carbon by 2050. We’ll begin reporting on these in
Carbon Intensity Our absolute location-based carbon emissions have also the next reporting year.
Revenue (£m) 11,965 12,916 13,585 8,931 2,631 2,023 significantly reduced since our 2008/09 baseline from
108,817 tonnes of CO2e to 83,353 tonnes of CO2e in 2017/18,
Carbon intensity (tCO2e/£m revenue) 10.35 8.73 8.40 9.33 9.04 3.43
a reduction of more than 20%.
Carbon Emissions (tCO2e)
Scope 1
Target
Diesel 245 193 174 126 44 4
UK and Ireland Target 2009/10 2016/17 2017/18 Progress met
Fuel oil 32 33 40 n/a n/a 40
Reduction in CO2e emissions relative to revenue (%)* -50% -8% -53% -55%
Gas 4047 4,919 5,012 4,674 338 0
Vehicle fuel 23,614 22,819 23,430 19,290 1,806 2,334 Absolute gross emissions Scope 1 and 2 location-based (t CO2e) N/A 108,817 83,940 83,353
Refrigerants 1,386 1,439 1,305 180 981 144 Increase in energy efficiency across all buildings (%)** 20% – 0% -3%
Total Scope 1 29,324 29,403 29,961 24,270 3,169 2,522 Energy obtained from owned or controlled renewable energy
Scope 2 (location-based purchased electricity) at Sky-owned sites (%)** 20% – 6% 5%
Purchased district heating gross (location-based) 454 592 713 0 479 234 Increase in fleet fuel efficiency (%)** 15% – 10% 15%
Purchased electricity (location-based) 94,075 82,747 84,410 59,083 20,142 4,185 Reduction in CO2e emissions from travel per full-time
Total Scope 2 (location-based purchased electricity) 94,529 83,339 84,123 59,083 20,621 4,419 equivalent (FTE) employee (%)** -20% -4% -30% -39%
Scope 2 (market-based purchased electricity) Waste sent to landfill from our main offices (%) 0% 33% 0% 0%
Purchased district heating (market-based) 454 592 713 0 479 234 Waste recycled from all Sky sites (%) 65% 61% 77% 60%
Purchased electricity (market-based) 41,236 41,392 42,388 13,247 27,234 1,908 Food waste recycled from our main offices (%) 100% – 100% 100%
Total Scope 2 (market-based purchased electricity) 41,690 41,984 43,101 13,247 27,713 2,142
Water consumption (m3/FTE) 9–11m3 8 8 7
Total Scope 1 and Scope 2
(location-based purchased electricity) 123,853 112,742 114,084 83,353 23,791 6,941 *CO2 emissions baseline is 2008/09 **CO2 emissions baseline is 2011/12
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Accessibility, people and community contribution data
Find out more
Accessibility
Our provision of subtitles and audio description of on-screen TV content continues to exceed our regulated sky.com/biggerpicture
quotas across all Sky channels. For our customers with a visual or hearing impairment, we audio described
35% of content and subtitled 90%.
Ofcom regulated quota 2016/17 2017/18
Accessibility
Subtitling 70% 85% 90%
Audio description 10% 30% 35%
All Accessibility data refers to UK and Ireland performance.
Diversity
We maintained our gender diversity across the business this year and have a range of initiatives to improve
this in the future.
2016/17 2017/18
Employee diversity Number % Number %
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic employees (UK&I only*) 3,203 10% 2,996 13%
Disabled employees 1,562 5% 1,639 5%
2016/17 2017/18
Male Female Male Female
Employee gender diversity Number % Number % Number % Number %
Board of Directors 8 73% 3 27% 8 73% 3 27%
Sky is proud to have been awarded: Sky are members of:
Senior managers** 189 75% 62 25% 241 73% 88 27%
All employees 19,751 63% 11,745 37% 19,128 62% 11,481 38%
* Sky Italy and Sky Germany & Austria do not collect or hold data regarding the ethnicity of their employees.
** B
ased on headcount. Defined for the purposes of this report as those included in the Leadership Bonus Group which includes
members of Sky’s executive group. For more information and methodology changes. Please see the Basis of Reporting on
www.skygroup.sky/corporate/bigger-picture.
Community contribution
This year in the UK and Ireland 7% of our employees gave to charity through payroll giving or matched
funding and 4% of our people volunteered with Sky Academy Studios and Sky Ocean Rescue.
We use the London Benchmarking Group model to analyse our community contribution, which this year
across the Group was £21.9 million.
2016/17 2017/18 Unless otherwise stated, the information covered in Deloitte LLP have carried out independent limited
this year’s report refers to all sites and operations for assurance procedures in accordance with International
Cash £14,907,506 £16,808,972 Sky plc companies across the Group in the UK and Ireland, Standard on Assurance Engagements 3000 (ISAE 3000
Time £740,999 £421,236 Germany, Austria, and Italy for the 2017/18 financial year Revised) on selected key performance indicators defined
In-kind £1,378,595 £1,289,943 ended 30 June 2018. as material through our strategy, these are denoted by .
Management £2,792,005 £3,420,964 We’ve also produced a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) You can find out more about the scope of our
Total £19,819,105 £21,941,205 Content Index with this report. performance measures in our basis of reporting
documentation and Deloitte’s full assurance statement.
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