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The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall Annual Review 2010 The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall Annual Review 2010 www.princeofwales.gov.uk Print, paper and publication details: Designed and produced by Addison www.addison.co.uk Printed by Beacon Press using environmental print technology. Environmental data for the production of this document: Paper fibre: 100% post-consumer collected waste manufactured to ISO14001 and FSC certified CO2 emissions: 955kg and 100% offset Annual Review 2010 Ink: 100% made from vegetable oil Press solvents: 95% cleaned and reused Dry waste: 99% recycled IPA used: 0% All production systems are registered to ISO 14001:2004, ISO 9001:2000 and EMAS. Beacon Press is a CarbonNeutral® printer operating a carbon reduction programme before offsetting and holds the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development. ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 The purpose of this Annual Review is to provide an overview of The Prince of Wales’s and The Duchess of Cornwall’s official and charitable activities, and to provide information about their income and official expenditure for the year to 31st March 2010. This Review describes The Prince of Wales’s role and activities, which have three principal elements: undertaking royal duties in support of The Queen, working as a charitable entrepreneur and promoting and protecting national traditions, virtues and excellence. www.princeofwales.gov.uk The official website for The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry. It contains the latest news, press releases, exclusive videos, speeches, articles and diary information, plus a wide range of biographical detail. FRONT COVER The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall attending Remembrance Day events in Ottawa, Canada, in November 2009. CONTENTS PAGE 16 sUPPORtinG THE QUeen 02 | 09 IntRODUction 02 | 03 Summary 04 | 05 Engagements and activities 06 | 07 Environmental responsibility 08 | 09 Duchy of Cornwall 10 | 15 sPeciAL FEATURES 10 | 11 The Prince of Wales in Afghanistan 12 | 13 The Prince’s Rainforests Project PAGE 22 CHARITABLE ENTREPRENEUR 14 | 15 The Duchess of Cornwall supports victims of sexual assault 16 | 21 SUPPORtinG THE QUeen 18 | 19 The United Kingdom and overseas 20 | 21 The Armed Services 22 | 33 CHARitABLE entREPReneUR 24 | 25 £110 million for charity PAGE 34 PROMOTING AND PROTECTING 26 | 27 Opportunity and enterprise 28 | 29 Responsible business 30 | 31 The built environment 32 Education 33 Health 34 | 37 PROMotinG AND PRotectinG 36 | 37 Raising issues 38 | 53 IncoME, EXPenDitURE, stAFF AND SUstAinABILitY 40 Income and expenditure account 40 | 41 Income and funding 42 | 43 Expenditure 44 | 48 Staff 49 Annual visits 49 Official costs analysed by expenditure category 50 | 53 Sustainability account 54 | 56 APPenDIX 54 | 55 Portfolios of the Senior Management 56 The Prince’s Charities 01 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 SummarY This Annual Review covers the year to 31st March 2010. In addition to this introduction and a selection of events from the year, it has five main sections: one devoted to special features highlighting the work of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall; three explaining each of the principal elements of His Royal Highness’s role; and a fifth providing details of how The Prince of Wales’s activities and office are financed and explaining their environmental impact. While there is no established constitutional role for The Heir to The Throne, The Prince seeks, with the support of his wife The Duchess of Cornwall, to do all he can to make a difference for the better in the United Kingdom and internationally. The way in which His Royal Highness does so can, in simple terms, be divided into three parts. Undertaking royal duties in support of The Queen This involves The Prince supporting The Queen in her role as a focal point for national pride, unity and allegiance and in bringing people together across all sections of society, representing stability and continuity, highlighting achievement, and emphasizing the importance of service and the voluntary sector by encouragement and example. Working as a charitable entrepreneur For many years The Prince has worked to identify charitable need and to set up and drive forward charities to meet it. Today, The Prince’s Charities, as the core group of 20 organizations is known, makes up the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the UK. Each year His Royal Highness helps to raise, either directly or indirectly, more than £100 million to support the charities’ activities. Additionally, The Prince has set up six social enterprises, the profits of which are donated to charity. Promoting and protecting national traditions, virtues and excellence ABOVE This includes supporting Britain’s rural communities, promoting tolerance British architect David Chipperfield and greater understanding between faiths and communities, and highlighting guides a tour for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall achievements or issues that, without his support, might otherwise receive as they visit the Neues Museum in little exposure. In this regard, His Royal Highness often acts as a catalyst for Berlin, Germany in April 2009. facilitating debate and change through contacts with Government Ministers The Prince of Wales meets and other people of influence, and by giving speeches and writing articles. UK, US and Afghan soldiers at In doing so, he is always careful to remain separate from party political debate. Camp Shorabak, during a surprise He communicates with Ministers as a member of the Privy Council and to visit to Afghanistan in March 2010. report matters raised by people during his visits around the country. In fulfilling his role as Heir to The Throne, The Prince of Wales is supported in everything he does by his wife, The Duchess of Cornwall. Rather than seek a substantial public profile in her own right, Her Royal Highness’s role is primarily to support her husband, accompanying him on many public engagements throughout the country and overseas. The Duchess also attends events on her own, and conducts charitable and other work. 02 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 INTRODUCTION BACK SECTION WIDTH FRONT SECTION WIDTH FRONT SECTION WIDTH INCOME AND EXPENDITURE Year to 31st March 2010 2009 £000s £000s Income from Duchy of Cornwall 17,161 16,458 CO2e emissions (Tonnes) Total CO2 equivalent emissions 2009 Income and funding Breakdown of CO2e emissions for travel. Year to 31 March (Tonnes) (Total £18.825m) Funding from Grants-In-Aid and Government Departments 1,664 3,033 3,000 6,000 £17.161m Income from 0,000 Duchy of Cornwall Total income and funding 18,825 19,491 2,500 0,000 5,000 £1.664m Funding from Official expenditure 10,723 12,513 Grants-In-Aid and 2,000 0,000 4,000 Government Departments 1,500 Surplus after official costs 8,102 6,978 3,000 Taxation 3,484 3,093 1,000 2,000 Non-official expenditure 1,694 1,710 500 1,000 Capital expenditure (less depreciation), loan repayments and transfers to reserves 2,695 2,018 2007 2008 2009 2010 2008 2009 2010 Expenditure and tax Net cash surplus 229 157 Official Overseas Travel (Total £18.596m) Official UK Travel Sustainability Account Other Travel (Total £000m) £10.723m Official expenditure SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNT £3.484m Taxation 16,458 Income from £1.694m Non-official Year to 31st March 2010 2009 expenditure Duchy of Cornwall tonnes tonnes Capital expenditure 3,033 Funding from £2.695m (less depreciation), loan Grants-In-Aid and CO2 equivalent emissions Government departments repayments and transfers Expenditure to reserves Household 2,718 2,601 (Total £000m) The Home Farm 2,044 2,377 Prince William and Prince Harry, whose Royal Household is based at St James’s Palace, also conduct public engagements and support charities and other organizations, although the main way in which they serve the For historical financial nation is in their role as full-time military officers. Both are currently training data please visit: to be helicopter pilots; Prince William with the RAF’s Search and Rescue Force and Prince Harry with the Army Air Corps. www.princeofwales.gov.uk/ Official expenditure Summary Taxation mediacentre/annualreview Non-official expenditure The way The Prince of Wales fulfils his public duties is largely constant from Capital expenditure year to year, and in 2009-10 the key themes were once again the protection (less depreciation), loan repayments of the environment, Their Royal Highnesses’ support for the Armed Forces and transfer reserves and their work for the British Government on overseas visits. The Prince has been drawing attention to problems of climate change for many years, and in 2009-10 work by his Rainforests Project to help achieve a consensus on action against tropical deforestation culminated in significant progress; following the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, a total of $4.5 billion was pledged by developed countries to pay for measures to reduce the rate of rainforest destruction. With British Forces operating around the world, the Royal Family plays an important role in highlighting their work and sacrifice and in supporting morale among the troops and their families. The Prince and The Duchess undertook their usual wide range of Armed Forces engagements during the year, one of the highlights of which was a visit by His Royal Highness to Afghanistan in March 2010. During the year, Their Royal Highnesses undertook official overseas tours to Italy and Germany, to Canada and to three countries in Central Europe, as well as several shorter working trips abroad. 03 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 engagements and activities In 2009-10, The Prince of Wales undertook a total of 646 official engagements, of which 123 were overseas, and The Duchess of Cornwall undertook 252 engagements, of which 69 were overseas.
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