This statement is made by Treasure & Trove Ltd (trading as Little India Treasures) in the spirit of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the UK Home Office's updated Transparency in Supply Chains statutory guidance (March 2025). As a company with a turnover below the £36 million threshold, we are not legally required to publish an annual modern slavery statement. We have chosen to do so voluntarily, because we believe that transparency in how we source our products is fundamental to the values on which Little India Treasures was founded.

We sell handcrafted homeware and lifestyle products sourced from artisan communities in India. We recognise that this places a responsibility on us to understand the conditions in which our products are made, to be honest about the risks that exist, and to take meaningful steps to protect the people who make what we sell.

This statement covers our financial year ending 31 December 2025. It has been approved by the directors of Treasure & Trove Ltd and will be reviewed and updated annually.

Company	Treasure & Trove Ltd (trading as Little India Treasures)
Company number	15294111
Registered address	82A James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 7DE
Incorporated	20 November 2023

Little India Treasures is an online retailer of handcrafted homeware, textiles, and lifestyle products, selling exclusively through our Shopify-powered website at www.shoplittleindia.co.uk. We are a small, founder-led business incorporated in November 2023 and operating in the UK. We have no subsidiaries or affiliated group companies.

All of our products are designed by us and handcrafted by skilled artisans in India. We source directly from a small number of trusted supplier workshops and artisan producers based in India, with whom we have direct working relationships. We do not source through intermediaries or agents where we can avoid it, and we aim to keep our supply chain as transparent and as close to the makers as possible.

Our supply chain currently operates primarily at Tier 1 — meaning we work directly with the workshops and producers who make our products. We are in the early stages of building a more complete understanding of our Tier 2 supply chain, which includes the producers of raw materials such as textiles, metals, and natural fibres used in our products.

Our own operations in the UK consist solely of the directors and a small number of team members involved in sales, marketing, and customer service. All are based in the United Kingdom and all are employed directly by Treasure & Trove Ltd.

We hold stock of our products in a UK-based third-party logistics facility. We use multiple couriers for UK and international delivery. Our website is hosted and operated by Shopify.

As a small business, we do not yet have a comprehensive formal ethical trading policy framework of the kind that larger organisations are able to develop. We are honest about this. However, the following principles are embedded in how we operate and how we engage with every supplier we work with:

Zero tolerance of forced and child labour

We have a strict zero-tolerance position on forced labour, bonded labour, involuntary labour, and child labour in any part of our supply chain or our own operations. We will not work with any supplier where we have reason to believe these practices are present, and we will cease trading with any supplier where such practices are discovered.

Supplier expectations

We communicate clearly to all of our suppliers the standards we expect. These include:

• Employment must be freely chosen — no forced, bonded, or involuntary labour of any kind
• No child labour — we require that all workers are of legal working age under the laws of India, and in any case are at least 15 years old in line with ILO Convention No. 138
• Workers must not be required to pay recruitment fees or lodge deposits with their employer
• Workers must be free to leave their employment after giving reasonable notice
• Workers must be paid fairly and on time, in line with all applicable local laws
• Working hours must be legal and reasonable, and workers must not be compelled to work excessive overtime
• Workplaces must be safe, hygienic, and free from harassment, abuse, or discrimination
• Workers must be free to associate and bargain collectively

Our own team

All members of our UK team are engaged directly, with written contracts of employment, paid directly to their own bank accounts, and paid at or above the National Living Wage. We use reputable, compliant employment practices and do not engage in any form of labour exploitation within our own operations.

Recruitment

We carry out right-to-work checks for all UK team members and do not use unlicensed or unverified recruitment agencies for any role.

We are a small, early-stage business and we are transparent about the fact that our due diligence processes are still developing. The steps we currently take include:

Direct supplier relationships

We work directly with a small number of suppliers and artisan producers in India, which gives us a level of visibility into working conditions that would not be possible through a longer, more complex supply chain. We visit our suppliers in person where possible, and maintain regular direct communication with them. We believe that long-term, partnership-based supplier relationships are one of the most effective tools available to a small business for managing labour rights risks.

Supplier engagement and information gathering

We discuss working conditions, wages, and labour practices openly with our suppliers as part of how we do business. We ask suppliers to confirm that they comply with our expectations on the elimination of forced labour and child labour, and we make clear that our continued trading relationship depends on these standards being maintained.

Transparency and site access

We require that our suppliers are open and transparent with us about how and where our products are made, including any use of subcontractors or homeworkers. We do not accept unauthorised subcontracting, and any third-party producers must be disclosed to us in advance.

Limitations we acknowledge

We have not yet commissioned independent third-party social audits of our supplier sites, and we have limited visibility of our Tier 2 supply chain — the producers of raw materials used in our products. We are honest that these are areas where our due diligence remains incomplete, and we are committed to improving both as the business grows.

We recognise that sourcing handcrafted products from India places us in a supply chain context where modern slavery risks are present and must be taken seriously. We identify the following as the key risk areas relevant to our business:

Country and sector risk — India

India is identified in international indices — including the Global Slavery Index and the US Bureau of International Labor Affairs list of goods produced by child or forced labour — as a higher-risk country for various forms of modern slavery, including bonded labour, child labour, and forced labour in certain manufacturing and agricultural sectors. The handcraft and artisan sector, while often associated with skilled and fairly paid work, also involves informal employment structures, homeworkers, and piece-rate payment models that can create vulnerability.

Informal and home-based work

Some artisan production involves work carried out in domestic settings or through informal arrangements, which can make oversight more difficult and create conditions where exploitation is harder to detect. We seek to understand and account for this in how we engage with our suppliers.

Raw material supply chains

We have limited visibility of the production of raw materials — including textiles, natural fibres, and metals — used in our products. These deeper supply chains carry risks that we are not yet fully able to assess.

Mitigating factors

Several features of our business model reduce our exposure to these risks:

• We work with a small number of known, directly engaged suppliers rather than through anonymous or distant intermediaries
• We prioritise long-term supplier relationships, which enable transparency to develop over time
• We visit suppliers in person and maintain direct, regular contact
• Our product range is designed around skilled artisan craftsmanship, and we structure our commercial relationships to support fair payment and sustainable livelihoods

As a very small team, we do not currently have a formal modern slavery training programme in place. The directors of Treasure & Trove Ltd are directly responsible for all supplier relationships and sourcing decisions, and are personally engaged with understanding and managing the risks described in this statement.

We are committed to ensuring that as our team grows, awareness of modern slavery risks — including how to recognise signs of exploitation and how to raise concerns — is built into our onboarding and ongoing training. We will formalise our training approach in the next financial year.

We are also committed to ensuring that our suppliers understand the standards we expect of them, and that they in turn communicate those standards to anyone involved in making our products at any level of the supply chain.

We do not yet have formal key performance indicators in place to measure the effectiveness of our modern slavery prevention efforts. This is something we are committed to developing. The following are the actions we have taken and the commitments we are making for the year ahead:

Actions taken in the current period

• Maintained direct, in-person relationships with our Indian suppliers, with visibility into working conditions
• Communicated our labour rights expectations clearly to all direct suppliers
• Ensured all UK team members are employed directly, with right-to-work checks and above-minimum-wage pay
• Published this voluntary modern slavery statement for the first time

Commitments for the year ahead

• Develop a written Supplier Code of Conduct setting out our minimum labour standards expectations, for signature by all current and new suppliers
• Begin mapping our Tier 2 supply chain — the producers of raw materials used in our products — to improve our visibility and risk assessment
• Explore participation in an established ethical trade initiative or supplier audit programme appropriate to our scale
• Introduce formal modern slavery awareness as part of our team onboarding process
• Establish simple key performance indicators to help us track and improve our performance year on year
• Review and update this statement annually, and consider registering it with the Home Office modern slavery statement registry

We are a new and growing business. We are not where we want to be yet, and we are honest about the limitations of our current due diligence. What we commit to is that this will improve — transparently, year by year.

This statement has been approved by the directors of Treasure & Trove Ltd.

It will be reviewed and updated annually, no later than 30 June each year following the close of our financial year ending 31 December.

If you have any questions about this statement, or if you wish to report a concern relating to modern slavery in our supply chain, please contact us:

Email	treasures@shoplittleindia.co.uk
Post	Treasure & Trove Ltd, 82A James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 7DE, United Kingdom

Reports of concern can be made confidentially. We take all reports seriously and will investigate every concern raised.