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CorporateSocial Responsibility.

Annual Report 2018-19

Learn more about our CSR onlineat http://www.tescobengaluru.com/.tesco-society/communities.

Contents.

Tesco Bengaluru Annual Report 2018/19

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Tesco at a glance 3

Tesco Bengaluru’s CSR Strategy 4

Zero Hunger 5

Quality Education 6

Clean Water & Sanitation 7

Responsible Production & Consumption 8

Social Innovation Challenge 9

Colleague Volunteering Programme 10

Our Impact at a glance 11

Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report highlights what we do as a responsible organisationwhile giving back to the community and how we are aligned with Tesco PLC’s vision and UN’sSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to make an impact on the communities we serve.

Tesco Bengaluru at a glance.

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team and a site that houses - Tesco Business Services and Tesco Technology teams that serve ourshoppers a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, leveraging best-in-class retail technology, enabling agility and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers.

Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisationand build centralised capabilities and competencies in Business Services and Technology, making the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,50,000colleagues.

We are proud to share that Tesco Bengaluru is a Great Place to Work – CertifiedTM organisation for the period of May 2019 through April 2020.

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Tesco at a glance

As a 100 year-old leading retailer, with 450,000 colleagues, 6800+ stores worldwide and averaging 80 million shopping trips per week, we serve millions of customers worldwide, in our stores and online. We have a simple mission as a retail brand – to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living.

Over the last 100 years, our core values and purpose helped us to stay focused as a business and serve our customers, suppliers and communities better. One of our core values – ‘Every little help makes a big difference’ ensures we serve our customers, colleagues and their communities a little better every day. It captures how and when we add up all small things we do that make a big difference to the issues that customers, colleagues, communities and wider society care about.

Tesco Bengaluru colleaguestotal volunteered hours.

Our NGO partners.Hours.1,450+

Highlights in 2018/19

Our CSR strategy focuses on making a significant social impact for the communities we serve. Fostering innovative partnerships, leveraging technology and delivering measurable solutions, we built our CSR activities broadly under these threethemes:

We are also dedicated to our environment and aligned our approach with other SDGs where we followthe industry best practices while managing our wastes and producing recycling products to save ournatural resources’ degradation.

Our CSR strategy reflects our efforts to inspire and connect people, as well as invest inopportunities by taking real and measurable actions. Covering these themes, Tesco Bengaluru colleagues invested 1450+ hours in volunteering work during the year 2018-19.

Tesco Bengaluru’s CSR Strategy.

Food Water

Like Tesco PLC, we align with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in all that we do as part of CSR activities. Here are our goals:

Education

Providing mid-day meals for children in government

schools

ZeroHunger.

Equipping younger generationswith the right skills through

vocational training to become jobready and independent

QualityEducation.

Providing access to cleanwater and promote safe and

healthy living

Clean Water& Sanitation.

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Providing mid-daymeals to children ingovernment schools.

Zero Hunger.

In collaboration with the Akshaya Patra Foundation, a non-profit organisation in India that runs school lunch programme across India, we provide kitchen equipment like insulated vessels and vegetable cutters to Akshay Patra to run seamless mid-day meal service. In FY 2018-19 we were able to touch 3000 lives through the mid-day meal programme in Bengaluru.

3,000In FY 2018-19 we were able to touch3000 lives through the mid-day mealprogramme in Bengaluru.

Lives.

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We collaborated with NASSCOM Foundation and established Karnataka’s first community Career Development Centre (CDC) at Ambedkar Nagar, Whitefield in Bengaluru. This centre trains youth from underprivileged communities in a digital literacy programme, in line with the curriculum of the National Digital Literacy Mission. They are also equipped on communication skills, personality development and vocational training, where modules such as data entry, Business Process Outsourcing, Business Correspondence and Accounting are taught to make them job ready for IT/ITES and retail sectors. Tesco Bengaluru successfully trained 398 individuals on career, non-career and National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) courses in 2018-19 andsuccessfully employed 22 individuals.

Career Development Centre

Every year, a large number of students drop out of schoolsor colleges in India. A significant number of them gounemployed and end-up living in poverty owing to theabsence of basic employment skills. Therefore, to helpyouth and equip them with the right skills, Tesco Bengaluru collaborated with Unnati Foundation, a youth empowering non-government organisation. They provide 50 days of vocational training and placements to the underprivileged students in different sectors. 876 students benefited from the Vocational Guidance at Unnati Foundation & the UNXT programme in 2018-19.

Skill Building

Tesco Bengaluru collaborated with the NASSCOM Foundation and inaugurated its first Nook office in Bengaluru. Nook is a self-learning centre at St. Joseph’s Convent School, Whitefield in Bengaluru that aids to enhance the learning opportunities for the underprivileged people across age groups. This centre has a unique learning environment where the students design their own pro- grammes based on their personal interest. They vary from learning computers, a language, to acquiring special skills that help them achieve their personal objectives. TheNook centre has 500 registered students with a footfall of 30 students per day where 115 have already completed the learning programme successfully in 2018-19.

Nook

Equipping younger generations with theright skills through vocational training tobecome job ready and independent.

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Tesco Bengaluru in partnership with Rotary Bangalore Whitefield Central and Waterlife India set up a safe drinking water plant at Naganayakanakote village, Bengaluru. This plant has provided close to 180000 litres of safe drinking water to 200+ families (approximately 8000 lives) in the surrounding communities through a concept of Water ATM. Till date, 180000 litres water have been consumed by the villagers which is almost 52 jars per day.

Safe Drinking Water Programme

Clean Water and Sanitation.Ensuring clean water to consume for communities as oneof the primary elements for healthy living.

1,80,000litres of drinking water provided.

Litres.200+Families benefitted.

Families.8,000Impacted.

Lives.52Jars/Day consumed by the villagers.

Jars.

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Providing access to clean water &promote safe and healthy living.

We have collaborated with Saahas Zero Waste, whoprovide us with end-to-end waste management serviceswho enabled us to avoid sending 95 tonnes of wet wasteand 69 tonnes of dry waste to landfills. We compost food waste in our campus and share the compost with our sustainability partner Saahas to produce the renewable energy like biogas at their plant. Compost is useful for landscaping and Saahas uses biogas to power vehicles that transport food waste. Dry waste is sorted into 18 categories that later reach the recyclers that produceproducts for everyday use like the notepads we use inour office.

Responsible Productionand Consumption.

Over 1580 colleagues at Tesco Bengaluru arepart of the GiveIndia’s Payroll DeductionProgramme contributing regularly to causes likedisability, poverty, women’s empowerment,child education, etc. In FY 2018-19, ourcolleagues raised INR 31,99,590 through thepayroll deduction and distributed INR 2904393to 114 NGOs empaneled with GiveIndia. Since2011, colleagues have contributed over INR 2.4crores to the GiveIndia payroll deduction programme helping Tesco Bengaluru rank sixthamong 135 participating companies in India.

Payroll GivingProgramme.

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At Tesco Bengaluru, we believe in providing the right toolsand the platform to our colleagues to bring out their bestwhile solving pressing issues of the society. We conductedour first ever-Social Innovation Challenge in 2018 invitingideas from our colleagues on community development.An internal team of experts decided to fund two teams oninnovative projects they proposed with the help of NGOs.

Social Innovation Challenge.

Joy of Giving (Theme – Food) Helping the needy people with food donation, leveraginglocal retail stores to contribute food products that werenearing their ‘best for consumption’ dates. The aim ofthis project is to feed at least 350 people per day.

Agua (Theme – Water) Addressing the scarcity of water in Bengaluru by identifyingand creating resources that could rejuvenate undergroundwater levels in a cost effective way. Partnered with SankalpaRural Development Society (SRDS), a Hubli based NGO, recharging rural bore wells by implementing Twin Ringmethod. So far, this team has successfully recharged 10 wells built by farmers in Govindapura village, Hosakote Taluk, Bengaluru. The team also identified another 15 wells in Kannuralli, Simenalli & Karibenhosalli village in Bengaluru Rural to recharge in future.

Maitri (Theme – Education) This team has been chosen by the jury due to theirinnovative and inclusive thinking of providing equalopportunity to the transgender community in thecorporate world. As of now, this team is working with the People team of Tesco Bengaluru to make our hiringpolicies and practices more inclusive.

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Colleague Volunteering Programme.CSR Month: Every year, Tesco Bengaluru runs a CSR Monthfor colleagues to get them engaged and support differentCSR activities through volunteering activities. In 2018-19,Tesco Bengaluru had number of initiatives for colleagues inOctober where they supported various initiatives.

We also believe in engaging our colleagues in different CSR activities while creating an impact in thecommunities. Be it our on or off-campus CSR activities partnering with our NGOs, we make sure ourcolleagues contribute their volunteering hours focusing on helping the surrounding communities and it’sunderprivileged people.

At Tesco Bengaluru, we want to improve the health and school enrollment of 1 million children by 2020.We are also working towards improving the socio-economic status of 25000 lives below the poverty lineby 2020.

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Blood Donation and Eye Pledging Drive

A fund raising activity by colleagues by cooking, serving and selling the food items in office, raised approx. INR 96000 which has been donated to SAMA Foundation helping the needy people with medical treatment.

Food for a cause

A fund raising activity by colleagues by cooking, serving and selling the food items in office, raised approx. INR 96000 which has been donated to SAMA Foundation helping the needy people with medical treatment.

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Volunteering hours 1,450+

Fund raised by Food for a causeINR 96,000

Money raised thorough Payroll INR 31,99, 590

No. of people trained in CDC 398

Amount of water distributed through ATMs 180000 litres

No. of lives impacted through Akshay Patra 3,000

No. of students placed through CDC 22

Amount of waste managed and recycled 164 tonnes

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