Our people and community involvement

Stafford aims to promote good corporate governance in the way that it does business, including adherence to a code of ethics and fair and equitable treatment of personnel. The firm integrates sustainability considerations in its profile as an equal-opportunity employer, providing flexibility to staff to enhance good work-life-balance.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are important to Stafford and these aspects are covered in our Diversity and Inclusion Policy. This policy is communicated to employees in the way we work and operate every day, and its implementation is the responsibility of the Executive Management Board (“EMB”), HR, Compliance, and all leaders of our business. We continue to review and improve policies related to these topics to ensure we build a talented and diverse workforce.

Number of Stafford’s employees, new hires, and departures in 2021

Source: Stafford Capital Partners, data as of December 31, 2021

In the course of 2021, Stafford hired 17 new colleagues. By comparison, in the same period 10 colleagues departed. We have increased the diversity at Executive Management Board (EMB) committee level so that we are including a wider range of voices than ever before in key decision-making affecting the firm.

Number of Stafford’s employees, new hires, and departures, 2019-2021

	2021	2020	2019
Number of employees (FTE)s	80	69	48
Female	23	15	10
Male	57	54	38
Women in senior position*	7	7	7
Number of new hires	17	21	6
Female	10	5	2
Male	7	16	4
Departures	10	11	4
Female	7	4	1
Male	3	7	3

* Senior positions include Vice President and above.

Source: Stafford Capital Partners, data as of December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively

Stafford employee diversity

As a company, we believe our growth and success come from the diversity of our people who enrich us with their experiences and diverse cultures. According to our internal Ethnic and Diversity survey, 26% of Stafford employees come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. We speak a total of 22 different languages across 8 countries.

Diversity of Stafford’s employees across functions at the end 2021 (as % of total FTEs)

Levels	Ethnically Diverse*	Female
EMB	1%	0%
Partners	0%	1%
Senior Levels Professionals	5%	2.5%
Associates and Analysts	19%	10%

*Ethnically diverse means non-white.

Source: Stafford Ethnic and Diversity Survey 2021.

Charity initiatives

At Stafford, we value corporate social responsibility and contribution to both local and global communities. Integral to this is engagement by our employees who nominate humanitarian initiatives and charities we support. As a result, in 2021 Stafford supported and donated to a diverse group of charities and foundations that each make a significant impact on their local communities. Some of the charities we supported and will continue to support in our current and future initiatives are listed below.

Foundation/Charity	Information	Impact	Mission Statement
Wayside Chapel	https://www.waysidechapel.org.au/	Homeless & Community Support	Their mission is creating community with no 'us and them'. We do this by breaking down the barriers of judgement and providing a safe place where people from all walks of life are welcome.
The George Pantziarka TP53 Trust	http://www.tp53.co.uk/	Supporting families with Li Fraumeni Syndrome and related conditions	The George Pantziarka TP53 Trust is the UK’s only charity dedicated to supporting families with Li Fraumeni Syndrome and related conditions. It offers practical support and advice, publishes information for patients and doctors alike and is dedicated to making a difference with research. Where most research is devoted to understanding the disease, the Trust is aiming to move forward with research on how to reduce the massive cancer risks that blight the lives of LFS families.
World Vision Southern Africa Hunger Emergency	https://www.wvi.org/emergencies/southern-africa-hunger-emergency-response	Humanitarian assistance.	The cumulative and adverse effects of climate change: recurrent droughts, floods, cyclones have hit countries in Southern Africa particularly hard. Today, more than 11 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Seven of the nine countries where World Vision operates in Southern Africa are affected to varying degrees. World Vision Southern Africa Hunger Emergency is a charity responding to the urgent needs of the most vulnerable affected by the crisis including child protection, the urgent treatment of malnutrition, prevention of diseases, food assistance, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with our goal of protecting children as the foundation of all we do.
Women’s Community Shelter	https://www.womenscommunityshelters.org.au/donations-more-info/	Women & Children shelter	The Women’s Community Shelter helps provide homes for women and children in crisis from homelessness and domestic violence. They work community by community to establish an Australia where women are safe, secure, supported and equal.
Amnesty International	https://www.amnesty.org/en/	Human Rights	Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights. Learn more about the Campaigns, Issues, Cases, and Countries we’re currently focused on.
The Young Actors Theatre	https://youngactors.org.uk/support-us/	Youth Art & Theatre	Young Actors Theatre Islington is a large community of young actors, with our own theatre and professional agency. We offer drama “for dramas’ sake” for 4–24-year-olds with 1000+ members. We represent over 200 of our young actors who work professionally.

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