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About Guardian Media Group

Learn more about who owns the GMG and how it is funded

Guardian Media Group is amongst the UK’s leading media organisations. Its core business is Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of theguardian.com, one of the largest English-speaking quality news websites in the world. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week and the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer.

Our ownership and values

GMG is owned by the Scott Trust in a unique structure that exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian, free from commercial or political interference.

CP Scott, the editor of The Manchester Guardian from 1872 until 1929, outlined the paper’s principles in his centenary leader column on May 5, 1921. The much-quoted article is still used to explain the values of the present-day newspaper and GMG.

Among the many well known lines are the assertions that ‘Comment is free, but facts are sacred’, that newspapers have ‘a moral as well as a material existence’ and that ‘the voice of opponents no less than that of friends has a right to be heard’. The values he described are: honesty; cleanness (today interpreted as integrity); courage; fairness; and a sense of duty to the reader and the community.

Our funding

GMG’s commercial activities are designed to ensure the long-term future of The Guardian’s award-winning journalism.

GMG is supported by the Scott Trust Endowment Fund, which consists of diversified medium and long term focussed investments managed by a number of specialist fund managers. We publish an annual Scott Trust Endowment Fund performance report, which sets out the fund’s activities and its approach to socially responsible investment, including the Fund’s approach to fossil fuel divestment.

We are also a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI), our transparency report is publicly available on the UNPRI website and can also be found here.

In October 2017, GMG created GMG Ventures, an independent venture capital fund designed to contribute financial returns and support Guardian Media Group plc’s strategy by investing in early stage businesses focused on developing the next generation of media technology.

The Guardian receives philanthropic contributions through partnerships with a range of organisations that share our values. We do this to produce journalism that is aligned to our editorial mission. Content supported by such contributions is transparently labeled on our site.

Our statements, reports and codes

GMG publishes its financial statements which detail the group’s financial performance and that of its subsidiary companies along with its Corporate Governance Report, Directors’ Remuneration Report and Corporate Governance Code, which can be found here.

GMG publishes its tax strategy and its modern slavery report annually. These annual statutory reports can be found here. GNM publishes its gender pay gap report annually.

The terms of reference for GMG committees are available by the following links: Nominations Committee, Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee.

GMG has an Anti Bribery and Corruption Code of Conduct which applies to all GMG and GNM staff and the third parties that perform services on behalf of GMG’s subsidiaries.

Company details

Company name: Guardian Media Group plc

Place of registration: England and Wales

Registered number: 94531

Registered office:

Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU

VAT number: 145 7744 45

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