Company: ARBK
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-005344
Chunk: 24

Company: Argo Blockchain Plc
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 6-K
Chunk 24
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 Company’s business, its operations and resources at the appropriate point.

Gender composition

At 31 December 2024, the gender composition of employees and directors of the Company was as follows:

| Gender Composition | Male | Female |
| Directors          |    3 |      1 |
| Senior Management  |    5 |      1 |
| Employees          |    9 |      7 |

Ethnic composition

At 31 December 2024, the ethnic composition of directors of the Company was as follows:

| Ethnic composition | Number of board members | Percentage of the board | Number of senior positions on the board | Number in executive management | Percentage of executive management |
| White              |                       3 | 75%                     |                                       2 |                              4 | 100%                               |
| Other              |                       1 | 25%                     |                                       0 |                              0 | 0%                                 |

The above information was collected through a voluntary open-ended self-identification survey. Questions included “What gender do you identify with?” and “What is your ethnic composition?”.

Diversity Targets

The Company notes the diversity targets included in the Listing Rules, being:

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at least 40% of the individuals on the Board are women;

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at least one of the specified senior board positions is held by a woman; and

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at least one individual on the Board is from a minority ethnic background.

As at 31 December 2024, the Company met the target to have one individual on the board from a minority ethnic background.

The Company operates a small board, comprised of four people, which the Board considers appropriate with the current stage of development of the Company and the scale and sophistication of its activities. One of the four directors appointed is a woman, however given the size of the Board, the Company does not have a senior independent director and the Chief Financial Officer is a non-board role. The Company does not therefore currently meet the remaining two targets.

Should the Board look to appoint further directors in the future, the Company will give due consideration to how it may achieve the diversity targets while ensuring the appropriate structure of the Board and mix of skills and expertise relevant to the Company’s operations. As part of its recruitment processes, the Company gives careful consideration to all potential applicants however has a particular regard to those with knowledge and experience of the digital asset and cryptomining sector. This necessary focus narrows considerably the pool of potential applicants and poses potential challenges in both recruitment and meeting the diversity