Annual Reports and Accounts 2007-2008

Financial Statements

• Financial Review
• Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social Responsibility Committee
  • Customers
  • Employees
  • Trade and Charitable Organisations
• Corporate Governance Statement
• Directors' Report
• Remuneration Report
• Regulatory Developments
• Report of the Independent Auditor report to the members of Sportingbet Plc

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Trade and Charitable Organisations

The Company recognises the obligation upon the gaming industry to demonstrate its commitment to self-regulation. The Company is supportive of the role that the industry’s trade associations can play in this regard and Sportingbet is an active member of the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) holding a seat on its Executive Committee and being represented on various RGA sub-committees.

The Company has signed up to the RGA’s Codes on Social Responsibility and Age Verification, the provisions of which the Committee endorses.

Recognising that some customers may be affected by gambling dependency, the Company has continued to provide funding in the UK to RIGT (Responsibility in Gambling Trust), being the body which supports GamCare. The Company also supports charitable organisations that are not linked to the online gaming industry. For the third year, the Company has sponsored the annual tennis tournament held at Queen’s Club, London in support of the Friends of Israel Sport Centre for the Disabled and The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust and, following the move of part of the Company’s trading team to the Channel Islands, the Company has undertaken sponsorship of Miss Heather Watson, a tennis starlet and Guernsey resident who competes on the ITF Junior Circuit. The Company also continues to support the Bishop Simeon Trust’s work in South Africa with communities affected by HIV.

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