The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall Annual Review 2010

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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

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

34 | 37 promoting and protecting 36 | 37 Raising issues

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.

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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. The following engagements and activities illustrate the range of Their Royal Highnesses’ work during the year.

The Prince of Wales addresses Google’s “Zeitgeist” event In May 2009, His Royal Highness was invited to give the keynote speech to delegates from the new media industries at Google’s annual European “Zeitgeist” gathering in Hertfordshire. In his speech he said that the power of the internet – “the most effective tool in history” – could help the world overcome the problem of climate change.

The Duchess of Cornwall opens a new facility of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres in Scotland In June 2009, Her Royal Highness, as President of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, officially opened a therapeutic garden at the Maggie’s Centre in Dundee. The charity seeks to provide places with a welcoming environment for people with cancer and their families. The Dundee centre is the first to ABOVE have a garden specifically designed with healing and restorative features The Prince of Wales delivers his such as a sculpture by the artist Antony Gormley and a space for Tai Chi speech at Google’s annual European “Zeitgeist” gathering in Hertfordshire and other classes. in May 2009. Visiting communities in Mid Wales during the annual Prince Harry meets six year-old Alex Burke from Manchester, winner of the Summer week in Wales Bravest Child Award, at the WellChild In June 2009, Their Royal Highness spent several days touring villages awards in London in September 2009. and towns in Mid Wales, including Llandovery, where they met staff and volunteers of PRIME-Cymru, the Welsh arm of the charity The Prince set up to help the over-50s start their own businesses, return to full-time employment and find voluntary work.

Attending the opening of the memorial to victims of the London bombings In July 2009, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall attended the unveiling of a monument in Hyde Park to the 52 people killed by terrorist bombs in central London on 7th July 2005. Speaking at the event, His Royal Highness described the victims’ families, the survivors and the London emergency services who worked on that day as a “moving example of holding together bravely in the face of inhuman and deplorable outrage.”

Delivering the 33rd Richard Dimbleby lecture for the BBC In July 2009, The Prince of Wales was invited to give the annual lecture in memory of the renowned broadcaster Richard Dimbleby. Broadcast on BBC1, His Royal Highness warned of the dangers of not tackling climate change, saying: “If we fail the Earth, we fail humanity.”

Prince Harry attends the WellChild Awards in London In September 2009, Prince Harry handed out awards to some of the remarkably brave children helped by WellChild, the UK-based charity which provides specialist medical care and home support for chronically sick children and their families. The Prince has been patron of WellChild since 2007.

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Honouring personnel who lost their lives in Iraq during Operation Telic In October 2009, Their Royal Highnesses and Prince William joined The Queen and other members of the Royal Family at the Iraq service of remembrance at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. The service was held to honour the 179 British personnel who lost their lives in the campaign, known as Operation Telic, between 2003 and 2009.

The Prince of Wales speaks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen In December 2009, His Royal Highness told delegates at the Copenhagen conference that “just as Mankind had the power to push the world to the brink so, too, do we have the power to bring it back into balance.” The Prince was invited to speak at the summit in recognition of his work over many decades to promote environmental awareness and to combat climate change.

The Duchess of Cornwall presents campaign medals to 4th Battalion The Rifles In December 2009, Her Royal Highness said the country owed an “enormous debt” to soldiers who fought in Afghanistan as she presented campaign medals to troops from 4th Battalion The Rifles at Bulford Camp in Wiltshire in front of hundreds of their friends and families. The Duchess ABOVE has been Royal Colonel of the battalion since it was formed in 2007. The Duchess of Cornwall presents Afghanistan campaign medals to soldiers from 4th Battalion The Rifles Prince William opens the new Supreme Court building at Bulford Camp in Wiltshire in in Wellington, New Zealand December 2009. In January 2010, Prince William undertook his first official tour on behalf

Prince William receives a hongi – of The Queen, travelling to Australia and New Zealand. While in the latter, a traditional Maori greeting – during he opened the country’s new Supreme Court building in the capital a visit to Kapiti Island on the second Wellington, hailing the occasion as “a milestone in New Zealand’s unique day of his visit to New Zealand on 18th January 2010 in Wellington, constitutional journey.” New Zealand. Thanking the people of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire In January 2010, Their Royal Highnesses visited the Wiltshire village of Wootton Bassett to thank residents for their “unstinting” support for the 646 Armed Forces. Every time the bodies of servicemen and women killed official engagements in action are repatriated on flights to nearby RAF Lyneham, the people of the village turn out in large numbers to line the streets in silent tribute.

123 The Duchess of Cornwall helps Age Concern Wiltshire Overseas engagements celebrate its 60th birthday In January 2010, The Duchess of Cornwall was the guest of honour at a reception to mark 60 years of Age Concern Wiltshire and to thank the many staff and volunteers at the charity for their remarkable work helping older people.

Visiting British and Commonwealth troops in Afghanistan In March 2010, The Prince of Wales paid a two-day visit to Afghanistan, where he spent time in the capital Kabul meeting military, political and faith leaders, and in Helmand Province thanking the British and Commonwealth forces and civilian personnel working to restore stability and peace to the country.

05 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 environmental responsibility

The Prince of Wales has been an environmental leader for nearly 40 years, working with businesses, governments and other national and international organizations to help protect the environment and tackle climate change.

Their Royal Highnesses’ Household strives to minimize its carbon emissions, which arise primarily from travel, heating and lighting, and from The Home Farm at Highgrove. This is mainly achieved by reducing energy consumption and by greater use of renewable energy.

The Household continued to increase its use of renewable forms of energy during the year; about 22 per cent of the Household’s total energy requirement (for heating, lighting and travel) is now met from renewable sources.

Total carbon emissions were reduced last year by 4 per cent. This was due to a significant decrease in The Home Farm and Household emissions more than offsetting an increase as a result of official overseas travel.

At The Home Farm, emissions have fallen due mainly to fluctuations in the size of the dairy herd. In the Household, a number of steps have helped reduce fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions. These include wood ABOVE chip boilers at Highgrove, Birkhall and Llwynywermod and heat pumps at Clarence House and Highgrove. Highgrove that extract heat from the ground and air. Emissions at The Home Farm and Highgrove continue to be monitored and analyzed with a view Electricity use was reduced in the offices through the replacement of older to achieving long-term reductions. computers and other equipment with more energy-efficient models and the use of energy-monitoring devices to identify savings. Plans are in place to continue to increase the use of heat pumps and other forms of renewable energy. In addition, biodiesel produced from used cooking oil is used in the Royal Train and The Prince’s cars.

While the Household continues to pursue initiatives to reduce emissions in areas where it has direct control, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is official overseas travel undertaken at the request of the Government. These international tours – Their Royal Highnesses jointly or separately travelled to Italy, Germany, Canada, France, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Afghanistan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in 2009-10 – represented 54 per cent of total Household greenhouse gas emissions last year.

The emissions at The Home Farm continue to be monitored and analyzed with a view to achieving long-term reductions. Run as an organic farm since 1985, The Home Farm aims to promote sustainable farming practices, and in 2009-10 the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the farm were reduced from 2,377 to 2,044 tonnes. This represents approximately 1.6 tonnes per acre and may be an overestimate because carbon absorbed by the soil has not been taken into account.

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As well as managing his Household’s and The Home Farm’s carbon Total CO e emissions (Tonnes) 2 footprints, The Prince of Wales has continued to help address the challenge Year to 31st March of climate change through the work of his various environmental initiatives

6,000 and projects, often in partnership with governments, the private sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). These initiatives include The Prince’s 5,000 Rainforests Project, sector-based initiatives such as the “ClimateWise” group 4,000 of leading insurance companies, the “P8” group of leading pension funds 3,000 and the Legal Sector Alliance, The Prince’s May Day Network of over 2,300 2,000 UK businesses and The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project.

1,000 A key outcome from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2007 2008 2009 2010 Copenhagen in December 2009, at which His Royal Highness spoke, was the announcement of $3.5 billion (subsequently increased to $4.5 billion) Household: Sources under the pledged by developed countries to help rainforest countries tackle Household’s control deforestation. This owed much to proposals developed and international Household: Official overseas travel Home Farm discussions initiated by The Prince’s Rainforests Project. Earlier in the year, The Prince hosted a three-day conference at St James’s Palace attended by 60 scientists, including 20 Nobel Laureates, which resulted in a memorandum calling for action on climate change. His Royal Highness regularly meets climate scientists to learn more about their research and last year The Prince paid visits to the Met Office headquarters in Exeter and the School of The Household contributes Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. towards sustainable energy The Prince’s May Day Network Summit, the UK’s largest annual gathering of and forestry projects to help businesses committed to tackling climate change, was held in May 2009 at balance out the impact of its 10 locations across the UK. His Royal Highness spoke at the London event, telling delegates that future generations would care deeply about the state greenhouse gas emissions. of the planet they inherited and whether it could provide them with stability. “Ensuring that we deliver them that legacy seems to me to be not only our most urgent priority, but also our greatest opportunity,” he said.

The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project continues to work in the The Sustainability Account UK and internationally, to develop practical guidance and tools to embed on pages 50 to 53 provides sustainability into decision-making and reporting processes. The Connected Reporting Framework, already used by the Household and other organizations, more detail about the is being adopted by the Treasury for use by the public sector in the UK. Household’s sustainability Finally, following his Rainforests Project, The Prince has established a new performance. environmental initiative called the International Sustainability Unit (ISU). The ISU will continue the rainforest work while also engaging with other urgent issues on the global sustainability agenda, in particular the marine environment (and especially over-fishing), sustainable agriculture and preserving ecosystem services. The unit aims to address the depletion of the world’s natural capital by helping to create a consensus as to the best ways to enhance long-term food, water and energy security.

In overall terms, His Royal Highness adopts an integrated approach to tackling environmental problems, encompassing not just efforts to reduce his Household’s carbon footprint and energy use and his specific environmental projects and initiatives but also his work in many other fields. This work covers a wide range of inter-connected areas, from encouraging sustainable agriculture, supporting small farmers and highlighting the importance of local food sourcing and better food education, to promoting a more sustainable approach to planning and designing homes and communities in a way that enhances and adds value to the social, natural and built environment.

07 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 DUCHY OF CORNWALL

The Duchy of Cornwall is a private estate which funds the public, charitable and private activities of The Prince of Wales and his family. The Duchy consists of 54,424 hectares of land in 23 counties, mostly in the South West of England. As the current Duke of Cornwall, The Prince is actively involved in running the Duchy and his philosophy is to improve the estate and pass it on to future Dukes in stronger and better condition.

The Prince, as Duke of Cornwall, is entitled to the annual net income of the Duchy. He is not entitled to the proceeds or profits from the sale of the Duchy’s 54,424 capital assets, which are retained in the Duchy to provide income for future The Duchy consists of 54,424 hectares beneficiaries. The Duchy is not subject to corporation tax as it is not a company of land in 23 counties (i.e. a separate legal entity for tax purposes – in the same way as, for example, a partnership is not a separate legal entity for tax purposes), but His Royal Highness voluntarily pays income tax on the estate’s annual net income. Poundbury continues to do well in a difficult property The landed estate is primarily made up of agricultural, commercial and residential property. The Duchy also has a portfolio of financial investments. market with construction Its long-term property investment strategy is to own, manage and, wherever activity continuing as planned. possible, improve its balanced portfolio of high quality property. This strategy will continue to involve the disposal of surplus property, investment in the maintenance and improvement of the retained estate and the acquisition of new properties that meet the Duchy’s investment objectives.

The Duchy’s financial transactions are overseen by the Treasury, with particular emphasis on ensuring that the Duchy’s capital is maintained for future beneficiaries. For example, land transactions over £500,000 can only be carried out with Treasury approval.

The Duchy of Cornwall’s annual surplus has increased by 4.3 per cent to £17.2 million. The financial results are considered to be satisfactory in what has been a difficult market. The capital account has also performed well in all property classes with, particularly, financial investments showing growth during the last 12 months.

One of the Duchy’s biggest projects is Poundbury, the development on Duchy land of an urban extension to Dorchester in Dorset. Poundbury continues to do well in a difficult property market with construction activity continuing as planned. Although sales rates have been slower, a total of around 60 private and affordable dwellings were completed and occupied in the year, down from 100 in peak years. The next major project at Poundbury is the construction of Queen Mother Square, including a small supermarket, a local producers market, 30,000ft.² of offices and 28 affordable flats. The Duchy will retain part of the completed project as a long-term investment. Elsewhere, the ground-works have been started for the South West Quadrant where 196 private and affordable dwellings will be completed over the next two years.

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The Prince of Wales regularly visits Poundbury, and in December 2009 he opened the Weymouth College Construction and Training Centre, which teaches sustainable building skills such as thatching, dry stone walling and stonemasonry.

Elsewhere on the Duchy estate, a development of 12 affordable dwellings was completed on the outskirts of the village of Upton Cross, near Liskeard in Cornwall, by the Westcountry Housing Association. The homes were designed to reflect the traditional local style and were immediately occupied by members of the local community who had had difficulty finding appropriate affordable housing.

The last 12 months have seen further growth in the Duchy of Cornwall’s woodland estate, with a significant purchase being made in Herefordshire adjoining existing Duchy farmland and adjacent to Aconbury Wood. The aim is to begin to diversify the acquired woodland to grow a wide variety of broad-leaved species, such as oak, ash and sweet chestnut. The Duchy’s woodlands are now regularly used for education and training. For example, in the Spring of 2009 a pioneering project called ‘Work in the Woods Week’ used the Duchy’s woods to teach nearly 30 young people woodland management skills. Several of the attendees were subsequently selected for a two year forestry apprenticeship, part funded by the Forestry Commission.

ABOVE Sustainability is at the heart of every development on Duchy land. The Holmead Walk on The Duchy estate has recently entered into a joint venture with the aim of constructing of Cornwall’s development at Poundbury in Dorset. and operating a renewable energy plant using biogas produced from an Image supplied by Ian Skelly anaerobic digester located near Dorchester. The plant will be strategically placed to deliver the heat and electricity to Poundbury as well as local The Duchy’s woodlands schools and industry. It will provide an integrated collaborative supply are now regularly used for chain with local job creation in farming, waste contracting and processing. education and training.

Maintaining the effectiveness of peat bogs as a natural means of carbon storage is another aspect of the Duchy’s sustainability work and on Dartmoor its partnership with the National Park Authority, the Ministry of Defence, Natural England, South West Water, the Environment Agency and local interest groups has been working to maintain carbon storage in the area’s peat blanket bogs.

In certain parts of Dartmoor the bog has been affected by historic peat cutting which, together with natural erosion, can cause the peat to dry out, releasing carbon into the atmosphere. The project aims to halt this erosion through a variety of methods. Dams, comprising timber and peat or peat only, have been installed to maintain the moisture level within the existing peat, thus preventing the release of carbon. An additional benefit is that the work helps to mitigate flood risk and improve water quality.

09 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 The Prince of Wales in Afghanistan

Below The Prince talks to an Army chaplain by the memorial to the fallen at Camp Bastion in March 2010.

“I admire deeply the Armed Forces and support what they are doing wherever I possibly can”

The Prince of Wales

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In March 2010, The Prince of Wales paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan. During his two-day trip, His Royal Highness spent time in the capital Kabul and in the south of the country in Helmand Province, where most of the British Forces are based.

While in Kabul, he met General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force, as well as senior Afghan politicians, diplomats, faith leaders, British embassy staff and civilian personnel working to help restore peace and stability to the country.

He was also driven in to the centre of the city to visit two locations run by his Turquoise Mountain Foundation charity to see first-hand its work teaching and reviving traditional Afghan craft skills and architecture, regenerating the city’s historic urban areas, improving women’s and children’s education and creating local employment opportunities.

After Kabul, His Royal Highness travelled south to stay the night at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province. The next morning he flew to the Task Force Helmand headquarters in Lashkar Gah where he received briefings from commanders and sat down for a “shura”, or meeting, with the Governor of Helmand and local tribal elders. He then flew by Chinook helicopter to visit a company of Scots Guards manning a patrol base amid the poppy fields and parched landscape of Nad-e-Ali.

The Prince visited the Afghan National Army at Camp Shorabak to meet Afghan army soldiers being trained by British forces, before returning to Camp Bastion to spend time with the pilots and crews of the Joint Helicopter Force, to visit the camp’s hospital and to watch a demonstration of the ABOVE remarkable work of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams. The Prince The Prince of Wales travels on a finished the day by attending a sunset service at the Camp Bastion British military Chinook to Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan in March 2010. memorial, where he laid a wreath of paper poppies and white carnations in memory of those British soldiers killed during the campaign. The Prince of Wales has a shura with Governor Mangal and local elders during the surprise visit Just before departing, His Royal Highness explained to the BBC why he had to British troops in Afghanistan come to Afghanistan. He said: “The main reason is that I admire deeply the in March 2010. Armed Forces and support what they are doing wherever I possibly can.

The Prince of Wales talks with The other thing also is that I have quite a large number of regiments of which Guardsmen at Task Force Helmand, I am Colonel-in-Chief – and there are all sorts of other units in the forces in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan in which I try to take an interest. So, while my people are out here, I wanted to March 2010. come and see them… to see the kind of conditions they were in and also to try to generally take an interest and encourage.

“Also, this time I was glad I was able to meet all those people in Kabul at our embassy who do incredible work there, and the provincial reconstruction team people who again do a fantastic job, unseen and unheard… All those people are really quite extraordinary. So I just wanted to come and say ‘Thank you, well done.’”

11 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 The prince’s rainforests project

Below The Prince of Wales speaks at the beginning of the high level session of the UN World Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.

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The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) was established in 2007 to help find a solution to the problem of tropical deforestation. Because of the huge amounts of carbon that are emitted by deforestation, scientists believe no viable answer to the challenge of climate change is possible unless the rainforests are saved from further destruction.

To achieve a consensus around any possible solution, it was critical during 2008 and 2009 to engage the public and private sectors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with one aim in mind: to ensure that the need to provide substantial funding to prevent deforestation was widely recognized by the time world leaders and environmentalists gathered at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.

A crucial step in achieving this aim was the meeting of world leaders hosted by The Prince of Wales at St James’s Palace in April 2009. The key outcome of that meeting was the establishment of a 35-country International Working Group (IWG) to assess how interim finance could be raised and deployed to help rainforest nations preserve their forests. As the basis for its work the group used ABOVE the PRP’s own Emergency Package Proposals, published earlier in the year, The Prince of Wales meets with along with other suggestions from governments and international organizations. schoolchildren who decorated a frog and made some rainforest- related drawings and displays at a The IWG subsequently published a report in October detailing the amount of meeting of The Prince’s Rainforests emergency funding required to reduce tropical deforestation and how rainforest Project, at St James’s Palace, London in November 2009. countries could be compensated on a performance basis that would encourage more sustainable, low-carbon forms of economic development.

The report and its set of solutions were given widespread backing in November 2009 when The Prince hosted a second rainforests meeting at St James’s $4.5 billion Palace. At the meeting, government ministers, international business leaders pledged by governments after copenhagen and representatives of leading environmental NGOs expressed a determination for spending on measures to reduce to achieve a substantive agreement at Copenhagen – a collective will that has, deforestation over the next three years following the UN summit, helped to deliver $4.5 billion being allocated for measures to reduce deforestation over the next three years.

As well as trying to secure funding for rainforest nations, the PRP also embarked 700,000 last year on a digital media campaign to improve public awareness of the need over 700,000 pupils participated in the to tackle deforestation. The campaign was launched in May 2009 with a video Prp’s schools programme featuring The Prince of Wales, his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, various famous faces from around the world and a computer-animated frog which acted as a symbol of the rainforests.

The video has been viewed over six million times. During the year, more than a quarter of a million people sent messages of support to the website, and there were a total of 1.6 billion opportunities to see the campaign message across the world’s media.

13 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 The Duchess of Cornwall supports victims OF sexual aSSAULT

Below The Duchess of Cornwall talks to a victim during a visit to the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (RASASC) in London in November 2009.

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In the past year, Her Royal Highness has conducted several engagements to support victims of rape and sexual abuse and to thank the organizations and people who help women recover from the trauma of their experiences.

The Duchess was profoundly moved by what she heard during the engagements, and this is an area which is likely to feature further in her public work in the coming years.

The women were extremely In November 2009, Her Royal Highness was invited to visit the Rape and positive about the therapy Sexual Abuse Support Centre in Croydon, south London, where she heard from survivors of assault who shared stories about how their experiences and support they had had affected their everyday lives. The women were extremely positive about received at the Centre, the therapy and support they had received at the Centre, and how it had helped them move on with their lives. After their meeting, The Duchess told them: “I’m and how it had helped them really grateful to you for coming and talking about this, it can’t have been easy. move on with their lives. I think you are all incredible. It is great to have somewhere like this to go to and talk with each other. It must make a real difference to your lives.”

Following the visit, Her Royal Highness wanted to broaden her knowledge of the work in this field and to find out more about how the police and medical services responded to assaults. As a result, in February 2010, she visited a central London referral centre for victims and a neighbouring police station specialising in investigating rape cases.

Her first visit was to The Haven at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington where specially trained professionals offer medical help and advice and collect forensic evidence. While there The Duchess followed all the stages a victim would go through; from initial consultation with a doctor to examination and evidence collection and counselling. Afterwards Her Royal Highness travelled to nearby Kilburn Police Station to tour the offices and interview rooms of one of London’s 19 “Sapphire” units. They were introduced in 2009 by Scotland Yard following an overhaul of its response to rape and other serious sexual offences. As part of the reforms, all London borough sex crime units were brought under the control of a central command. At the station, The Duchess met the officers and specialist staff dealing with rape cases and heard about the particular challenges of dealing with sexual assault.

After learning during her visit to Croydon about plans for more rape crisis centres in London, The Duchess invited Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, to Clarence House in March 2010 to hear more about the plans. They discussed the help given to victims of sexual assault and the expansion of the facilities available to women across the capital.

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Supporting the Queen

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall support Her Majesty The Queen in her role as the focal point for national pride, unity and allegiance, 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.

LEFT The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall waving to crowds during their visit to Canada in November 2009.

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During the year The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall undertook a wide variety of engagements and visits, both at home and abroad. These ranged from attending ceremonial occasions and supporting and representing the Armed Forces, to undertaking official overseas tours to further Britain’s interests abroad.

United Kingdom Each year, Their Royal Highnesses travel regularly to engagements throughout the United Kingdom.

An important part of the Royal Family’s role is to offer support and sympathy in times of national or local challenge, and over the past few years The Prince has visited a number of areas affected by serious flooding in England and Scotland.

The worst hit region in 2009 was north-west Cumbria, and The Prince paid two visits to the area during the year, the first in November 2009 to meet local flood victims and those involved in both emergency efforts, the second in March 2010 to catch up with the progress of reconstruction in places like ABOVE Ambleside and Cockermouth. On both occasions, His Royal Highness took The Prince of Wales and senior business leaders with him to encourage them to help with the The Duchess of Cornwall meet Combined Cadet Force (CCF) rebuilding work. staff during a visit to Treorchy Comprehensive School in Their Royal Highnesses regularly undertake “away-days” to cities and Wales in June 2009. regions across the country where a wide variety of engagements and visits are made. In England, last year there were away-days to Manchester, the Isle of Wight, Devon, Stoke-on-Trent, Cornwall and south-east London, as well as several hundred individual public engagements throughout England.

In recognition of his special relationship with Wales, The Prince pays regular visits to the Principality, including a week there every summer. During the 2009 Wales Week, which focused mostly on Mid Wales, Their Royal Highnesses visited local schools, hospitals and communities in Brecon, Llandovery, Treorchy and Tondu. At their home in Llwynywermod in Carmarthenshire which they use as a base during Wales Week, The Prince and The Duchess hosted a reception for neighbours and local residents from the towns of Myddfai and Llandovery.

In October 2009, The Prince travelled to West Wales for a day of engagements in Dyfed. During his visit His Royal Highness officially opened the Police Station in Llandovery, visited the Tafarn Cwmdu National Trust holiday homes run by the Cwmdu community and toured the Llandeilo Transition Town project.

Following on from the purchase of Llwynywermod in 2008, His Royal Highness has extended his presence in Wales further by opening a permanent office in Cardiff where Manon Williams, Private Secretary for Wales, is based two days a week working to support Their Royal Highnesses’ Welsh initiatives and interests.

The Prince and The Duchess share a great fondness for Scotland and spend a good deal of time there every year, conducting public engagements throughout the country, and holding meetings and working at their home at Birkhall, in Aberdeenshire.

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Their Royal Highnesses embark upon a week of engagements every summer in Scotland, and in June 2009 these events ranged from Edinburgh across to Glasgow and up to Inverness and the Orkney Islands, where they visited the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Stromness and enjoyed performances of traditional music played on accordions and fiddles by local children in Kirkwall.

In July 2009, His Royal Highness, in his capacity as the Patron of “The Gathering 2009”, officially opened the world’s largest international clan event in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park. The Prince, accompanied by The Duchess, described the huge outdoor event featuring music, poetry and sport as “a stirring meeting of Scotland’s history and its living heritage.”

On a more sombre note, in April 2009 The Prince and The Duchess attended a memorial service in Aberdeen for the 16 men killed when a helicopter crashed into the North Sea on its way back from an oil platform.

Overseas Every year Their Royal Highnesses’ duties take them abroad, and in 2009-10 they undertook an even greater than usual variety and range of official visits at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to support Britain’s overseas interests.

In April 2009, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall also visited ABOVE Italy, the Vatican and Germany. In Italy, Their Royal Highnesses travelled to The Duchess of Cornwall Venice to highlight regeneration issues and to Rome where The Prince gave a visits Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, near Toronto in Canada in speech on the environment to the Chamber of Deputies. While in the Italian November 2009. capital, Their Royal Highnesses paid a visit to The Holy See for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI and a meeting with the Cardinal Secretary of State The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall with to discuss, among other things, climate change and inter-faith understanding. Pope Benedict XVI in the library The focus of the visit to Germany was on the themes of global sustainability, at the Vatican in April 2009. social inclusion and long-term Anglo-German partnership.

In November 2009, The Prince and The Duchess travelled to Canada on their first joint visit to the country. During a busy trip they travelled to 12 cities in 11 days, including stops in St John’s on the Atlantic coast, Toronto, Montreal, and Victoria and Vancouver in the far west of the country.

In March 2010 they toured three countries in Central Europe. The trip enabled Their Royal Highnesses to underline the UK’s strong relations with Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and to share in celebrating the former Soviet Bloc countries’ successful transformation into thriving democracies little more than two decades after the collapse of communism.

During the year, His Royal Highness made solo visits to Denmark to make a keynote address to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, to Afghanistan in March 2010 to meet and thank British Armed Forces based there and, in the same month, to Qatar and Saudi Arabia for working meetings with the ruling Royal families.

Part of The Prince of Wales’s work to support the country’s overseas relations also includes meeting in London visiting Heads of State and Government to discuss issues of shared interest. During the year, His Royal Highness met, among others, President Hu Jintao of China, Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki of Iraq, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Prince also hosted a reception at St James’s Palace in January 2010 for delegates attending the international conference on the future of Afghanistan.

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The Prince of Wales’s relationship with the Armed Services is based on four themes: highlighting the courage, commitment and sacrifice of serving personnel and veterans; recognizing their professionalism and the quality of their training; promoting the role of the Forces within national life, through operational visits and ceremonial duties; and supporting the families of those deployed on operations.

THE PRINCE OF WALES’S MILITARY APPOINTMENTS The Prince’s commitment to the Armed Services is matched by that of his The Prince of Wales currently holds the ranks of Admiral wife and sons. The Duchess of Cornwall is the Royal Colonel of the 4th in the Royal Navy, General in the Army and Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force, and maintains a special Battalion The Rifles, Commodore-in-Chief of Royal Naval Medical Services relationship with the following: and Royal Naval Chaplaincy Services, Sponsor of HMS Astute and Royal Honorary Air Commodore of both RAF Leeming and RAF Halton. Prince The Queen’s Dragoon Guards William and Prince Harry are both serving in the military and currently The Royal Dragoon Guards training to be helicopter pilots. The Welsh Guards The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland In the past year, Their Royal Highnesses have been busier than ever The Mercian Regiment in supporting servicemen and women, and their families, attending The Parachute Regiment 77 engagements jointly or separately, including seven campaign medal The Royal Gurkha Rifles presentations to regiments ranging from 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and The Army Air Corps 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, to three squadrons of Royal Navy, The Queen’s Own Yeomanry helicopter crew and supporting personnel. 51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland One of the highlights was The Prince’s visit to Afghanistan in March 2010 and while there he was able to see soldiers putting into practice the training The Prince is also Honorary Air Commodore of Royal Air Force Valley and Fleet Air Arm Commodore-in-Chief of he had witnessed during his many visits to watch soldiers on exercises in the Royal Naval Command, Plymouth. He maintains a the UK. Just a month earlier, His Royal Highness had watched 2,000 troops special relationship with 10 Commonwealth units as taking part in exercises on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire and visited a Forward their Colonel-in-Chief: Air Reserve of Canada, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians), Royal Australian Operating Base (FOB), a camp set up to imitate conditions in Afghanistan, Armoured Corps, Royal New Zealand Air Force (Air where he met soldiers and officers from The Mercian Regiment. Commodore), The Royal Regiment of Canada, The Royal Winnipeg Rifles, The Royal Pacific Islands Regiment, The Royal Canadian Dragoons, The Black The role of a FOB is to protect and support battle groups on the Watch of Canada, The Toronto Scottish Regiment. ground and during his visit His Royal Highness went inside a sangar, an observation and gun post aimed at protecting the base; six weeks THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL’S MILITARY ASSOCIATIONS later he visited Scots Guards manning a sangar at Patrol Base Pimon The Duchess of Cornwall is Royal Colonel of in Nad e-Ali, Helmand Province. 4th Battalion The Rifles, Sponsor of HMS Astute, Commodore-in-Chief of Royal Naval Medical Services and Royal Naval Chaplaincy Services, During the Salisbury Plain visit His Royal Highness met Sergeant Andy and Royal Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Halton Hawkins, whom he had previously met in 2000 when the Sergeant was and RAF Leeming. recovering from injuries incurred during a posting to Cyprus. At the time, The Prince had sent him a bottle of whisky to aid his recovery. “He remembered me and I spoke about the whisky,” said Sergeant Hawkins. “It was good to see him. It’s a good feeling knowing we are going to Afghanistan with the backing of The Prince and the country.”

Later in the same month, The Prince watched 200 soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles train on Salisbury Plain ahead of their deployment to Afghanistan. During that visit The Prince, the regiment’s Colonel-in-Chief, met several servicemen who had served alongside his son during Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan in early 2008.

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Each year The Prince of Wales, his wife and sons show their support for troops wounded on operational duty, and in 2009-10 they all made visits to meet injured servicemen and women recovering in military hospitals in the UK. In October 2009, The Duchess visited the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court in Surrey, where she saw injured servicemen being put through their paces in the physiotherapy department on a variety of equipment to aid their recovery, including a new anti-gravity machine normally used by elite athletes.

The Prince made two visits during the year to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, the first in June 2009 and the second in December when he spent time in private with 30 patients being cared for on a trauma ward and critical care unit. Brigadier Chris Parker, the Commandant of the RCDM, said the visit meant an awful lot to the soldiers and their families: “The Prince has a deep interest in the personnel themselves, as well as the hospital staff and the military staff that work with them.” Prince William and Prince Harry also met patients and staff at Selly Oak during the year, paying a private visit in September 2009.

Serving on operations can take a mental, as well as a physical, toll on Forces personnel and The Prince and The Duchess attended several events during the year to support charities which deal with those traumatized by their conflict experiences. In May 2009, Their Royal Highnesses joined former servicemen at Westminster Abbey to mark the 90th anniversary of Combat Stress, the charity founded in the aftermath of the First World War to help shell-shocked soldiers. In March 2010, The Prince, who is the Patron of Combat Stress, helped to launch a new campaign for the charity called “The Enemy Within”, which aims to not only raise £30 million but also awareness of the plight of veterans suffering from psychological injuries.

Supporting veterans of earlier wars is another part of the Royal Family’s role, and in June 2009 The Prince joined world leaders including President Barack Obama and President Nicolas Sarkozy at events in Normandy, France, to mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day. The events included a ABOVE service of remembrance at Bayeux Cathedral followed by a ceremony The Prince of Wales rides in at the nearby Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and a reception for a Springer vehicle during a visit to Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, veterans, Royal British Legion staff and supporters at a hotel in the town. where, as Colonel-in-Chief, he met soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Forces families play a huge part in supporting the work of servicemen the Mercian Regiment and the Royal Dragoon Guards in and women, and in February 2010 The Duchess of Cornwall paid a visit to February 2010. Bulford Camp in Wiltshire, headquarters of 4th Battalion The Rifles. During the stay Her Royal Highness, who is the regiment’s Royal Colonel, toured The Duchess of Cornwall presents Afghanistan Campaign Medals the local school to meet children of soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Susan to members of the Royal Navy Raeburn, head teacher, said The Duchess’ visit had been a real boost to at Whale Island Naval Base in the morale of her pupils: “I think it’s very important for them to know that Portsmouth in July 2009. Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images somebody as important as Her Royal Highness understands what the families are going through. The Duchess has a real empathy with them.” The Duchess of Cornwall makes shapes with plasticine with three year-olds Jake Barr and Amanda Phiri at the Kiwi School during her visit to Bulford Camp in Wiltshire, where she met soldiers and families from 4th Battalion The Rifles in February 2010.

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CHARITABLE ENTREPRENEUR

For more than 30 years The Prince of Wales has been a leader in identifying charitable need and setting up and driving forward charities to meet it. From the early days of The Prince’s Trust in the mid-1970s his charitable interests have grown to the point when his core 20 charities represent, as a group, the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the UK. Such is the scale of their work that in 2009-10 His Royal Highness assisted, directly or indirectly, with raising £110 million to support The Prince’s Charities’ activities. In addition, The Prince has set up six social enterprises, the profits of which are donated to charity.

LEFT The Prince of Wales addresses delegates at the annual conference of The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, at St James’s Palace in London in February 2010.

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As a charitable entrepreneur, The Prince of Wales is perhaps best known for setting up The Prince’s Trust, a charity which helps troubled and disadvantaged young people to overcome the obstacles they face and to make a success of their lives. In many ways the Trust, which was established 34 years ago, provides a blueprint for His Royal Highness’s approach to charitable entrepreneurship. He first identifies a need that is not being served, then sets up a charity to fill the gap, before going on to oversee its strategy and management and raise money to fund its activities.

In 2009-10, The Prince helped raise, directly or indirectly, just over £110 million to support the work of his 20 core charities. While each charity is an independent entity with a separate Board of Trustees, they all work together within The Prince’s Charities group headed by Sir Tom Shebbeare. They work closely on matters such as corporate governance, fund-raising, planning, finance, communications, human resources and research to maximize synergy, efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Ideas are the lifeblood of any successful organization and over the past few years The Prince of Wales has initiated a steady stream of research and development propositions and established new initiatives and projects. Among the new projects launched in 2009-10 was “Start”, an initiative to help people across the UK lead more sustainable lives by demonstrating what a more energy-efficient, cleaner and healthier future could look like and how people can all make a start in their lives. The project is backed by a host of leading businesses and consists of a website (www.startuk.org) full of simple and practical information, a programme of events in Autumn 2010 throughout the UK to inform people about sustainability, a conference which will explore how companies can do more to act sustainably, and a nationwide tour by The Prince of Wales to highlight local projects already practising sustainability.

Launching Start in February 2010, The Prince said he was determined to address the fear among many people that leading more sustainable lives ABOVE meant adopting expensive and difficult measures. As he explained: “A The Prince of Wales talks with cursory look at most of the websites that talk about climate change will railway volunteers on the locomotive ‘Planet’ during a visit to the reveal they are full of this negative language: ‘stop’, ‘cut’, ‘reduce’, ‘don’t’… Museum of Science and Industry Far too few talk about the potential for a sustainable future to be better and in Manchester for the launch of his more rewarding – both for us and for Nature – than the lives we lead now.” “Start” project in February 2010.

Rooftops in the Qian Long Garden Another notable development last year was the opening in October 2009 of complex, the subject of a the Beijing office of The Prince’s Charities Foundation (China). The office will documentary co-produced by The Prince’s Charities Foundation facilitate a series of collaborations between The Prince’s Charities Foundation, (China). Picture supplied by the Chinese authorities and local charitable organizations, primarily in the areas A. Fereday of architecture, heritage, health and the arts.

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Details of the 20 charities, This collaboration includes work by The Prince’s Foundation for The Built along with contact information Environment on the restoration of the historic Hutong neighbourhoods in the area surrounding the Forbidden City in Beijing, the establishment of a series can be found on page 56 of workshops conducted by The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts and the of this Review and at China Academy of Arts to share knowledge of traditional Chinese design, and a television documentary about the restoration of part of the 18th Century www.princescharities.org Qian Long Garden complex in Beijing’s Forbidden City.

The Prince’s Charities are always looking for ways of adopting a more coordinated approach to tackling issues, and in September 2009 a group of them gathered for a week of seminars at Llwynywermod, The Prince’s home in Wales. Alongside partners from the public and private sectors, the charities met to discuss a range of issues they could tackle together, including youth unemployment, the economic contribution of older people, business action on climate change and rural regeneration. Plans are already in place for a repeat in 2010 with a focus on using Project Start as a catalyst for community action on climate change in Wales.

The Prince of Wales has long believed that businesses can be successful while also serving wider social and environmental interests, and to put this idea into practical action he has established six social enterprises which donate their profits to charity (they are listed above). The largest and best known is Duchy Originals, the organic and free-range foods company which donates its profits to charity. After facing difficult trading conditions for the past two years, the business embarked on a new phase of growth in 2009 when it secured an exclusive licensing and distribution partnership with the Waitrose supermarket group. As a result of the deal, the charitable donations made by Duchy Originals will increase significantly as Waitrose invests in and develops the brand in the coming years.

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The Prince of Wales has for many years tried, through his charities, to help people fulfil their talent and potential, whether by supporting disadvantaged young men and women through the work of The Prince’s Trust, or providing assistance to older people through his charity PRIME (The Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise), the only national organization dedicated to helping people aged over 50 set up in business.

The Prince’s Trust is His Royal Highness’s oldest and best-known charity. He set up the organization in 1976 with the £7,400 severance pay he received on leaving the Royal Navy. Its aim is to help 14 to 30 year-olds realize their potential and transform their lives by offering practical support including training and mentoring, as well as financial assistance for young entrepreneurs.

Every year, The Prince of Wales attends a wide range of engagements, receptions and meetings for the Trust, including the annual Celebrate Success Awards event which celebrates the achievements of young people who have turned their lives around with the help of the charity. Held in March 2010 at the Odeon cinema in London’s Leicester Square, the latest awards were attended by a host of stars including Sir Michael Caine, Bond girl Gemma Arterton, and comedian Michael McIntyre.

The award winners included reformed addict Karen McLaughlin, 26, who received a standing ovation from the 1,500-strong audience when she was named Young Achiever of the Year. Her life went on a downward spiral of drugs at the age of 11, beginning with cannabis, escalating to amphetamines and eventually heroin. A 12-week development course with the Trust helped her get her life back on track, and she has now written a paper on substance misuse for Sunderland City Council and is a Young Ambassador for The Prince’s Trust.

Miss McLaughlin, who is hoping to become a substance abuse mentor, ABOVE received her award from Sir Michael Caine. The veteran actor said The Prince of Wales talks to afterwards: “Karen’s experiences have moved and humbled me. She has catering students, attending a butchery class, during a visit to faced a difficult life, but she has not only overcome her own issues – she Westminster Kingsway College’s is also committed to helping other young people avoid a similar fate.” School of Hospitality, London in March 2010. Another award-winner was Mark Livsey, 30, who set up his own parcel The Prince of Wales presents delivery business in the face of muscular dystrophy, a condition he developed Karen McLaughlin with the aged 18. He felt his immobility affected his job opportunities, which led to low ‘Young Achiever of the Year’ award at The Prince’s Trust Celebrate self-esteem and emotional problems, but he was supported into self-employment Success Awards in March 2010. by the Trust’s Business Programme. Former England footballer Andrew Cole, who presented him with the RBS Enterprise Award, said: “Mark’s triumph today should be an example to us all.”

Since 2007, the Trust has been piloting, at The Prince’s urging, a special initiative to engage with young offenders before they leave prison. The programme uses former offenders to mentor young offenders through their transition from imprisonment to independent living. It also aims to help break the stigma attached to being an offender. In September 2009, The Prince went to Belmarsh Prison in London to see some of the activities the prison runs to encourage rehabilitation and while he was there, His Royal Highness joined a round-table discussion with members of the Trust’s mentoring programme.

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Adrian Wheeldon is one of thousands “Eventually, after about 12 detoxes of young people who has benefited and five different treatment centres, from the support of the Prince’s Trust I managed to get clean. It was in overcoming his problems. This is his around that time that someone story – which features in the Trust’s mentioned The Prince’s Trust. new “Undiscovered” advertising I started believing in myself. campaign – in his own words: “The Trust gave me a £1,000 grant “I grew up on a council estate in and a £800 loan to start up a Bognor Regis. Everyone seemed to plastering business. My business – know what they were doing in life and AD Plastering – has been running I didn’t. I went in a children’s home for more than two years. I’ve been when I was 11 during the summer clean for more than four years. holidays. They deemed my parents I also work at a drug rehabilitation irresponsible and I was out of control. centre at night to help other people. “There were regularly people coming “From where I’ve come from to into our house using drugs and where I am now – words can’t drinking. I started doing solvents describe. A short time ago my and drinking at home. Later, I mum said she was proud of me. started taking ecstasy and coke. I started crying. I didn’t know how My parents had to move away from to repair the past. But when she me because they were scared of me. said that, it felt like I had become the son they wanted.” “And then things started slowly slipping away. Before I knew it I was Picture supplied by George Brooks. injecting heroin. I became homeless. I slept on the streets of Brighton – in car parks, stair wells, squats.

One of the most important aspects of the Trust’s work is to help young people learn a trade, and in March 2010 The Prince toured the kitchens at Westminster Kingsway College’s School of Hospitality in central London and met young people learning skills for a career in the food industry. They included unemployed teenagers enrolled in the charity’s “Get into Cooking” programme that helps youngsters forge careers in the catering industry.

On the menu during the visit was line-caught mackerel smoked at the school, a loin of Welsh lamb, mutton shepherd’s pie and ginger parkin cake for dessert, and while he was there His Royal Highness joined a class of students dressed in aprons and chef hats who were being taught the process of butchering a venison carcass.

The Prince’s Trust is one of the charities involved in “Youth United”, a new initiative launched by His Royal Highness last year aimed at encouraging more young people to join youth groups like the Cadets and the Scout association and more adults to sign up as volunteers to help run the organizations. One of the other main aims of Youth United is to encourage various youth groups to share their resources, co-ordinate their activities and generally work together more closely. The initiative also has the support of the Police and other emergency services.

Youth United is growing into a UK-wide scheme. In June 2009, during a visit to meet the Combined Cadet Force at Treorchy Comprehensive School in South Wales, The Prince announced the establishment of the “Young Dragons”.

In July 2009, he attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace to meet representatives of the organizations involved in “You London”. And in February 2010, he launched the north-west chapter of Youth United during a visit to Greater Manchester.

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With his long-standing interest in community affairs and close ties to leading figures from the business world, The Prince of Wales is well-placed to use his position to support the development of corporate social responsibility initiatives throughout the UK and abroad. He believes that the private sector has the ability to make a real difference to many of the issues and problems facing communities and the country at large.

Arguably the most important of those problems is climate change, and His Royal Highness continues to use his strong ties to the business world to encourage corporate action to protect the environment.

In May 2009, The Prince attended the third May Day summit on climate change for business leaders. The May Day initiative does not just exist for one day each year; run by Business in the Community (BITC) charity, it now consists of a network of more than 2,300 British companies ranging from multi-nationals to small family-owned firms. The network allows businesses to share best practice and learn from each other about how to play a meaningful role in reducing the UK’s carbon emissions.

ABOVE One of The Prince’s longest-running sustainability initiatives in the corporate The Prince of Wales meets pupils world is the Business & the Environment Programme (BEP) run by the at Surrey Square Junior School in London in January 2010 to mark University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL), the 25th anniversary of his presidency of which His Royal Highness is Patron. BEP is internationally recognized for of Business in the Community. its leadership seminars which run annually in six locations around the world and attract senior business leaders who need to understand the strategic risks and opportunities of the social and environmental challenges that society faces.

CPSL also runs a number of other initiatives for His Royal Highness, including The Prince’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (CLGCC), and three sector-based projects: the P8 initiative encouraging the pensions sector to work together to face the challenges of climate change; ClimateWise, a similar initiative focusing on the insurance sector; and the Legal Sector Alliance (LSA), made up of 18 top law firms, the Environmental Law Foundation and the Law Society.

In June 2009, members of the CLGCC gathered in London for a conference, “Copenhagen and Beyond” where His Royal Highness thanked senior business leaders for signing up to the Copenhagen Communiqué – a joint statement from the international business community that was sent to leaders attending the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.

Last year, the P8 initiative went from strength to strength, with the membership increasingly significantly to the point where they now collectively manage over $3 trillion of investment capital worldwide. The project seeks to encourage the pension funds to utilize their power as significant investors, as well as their unique position within the public sector, to shape international policy and the market to face the challenges and risks posed by climate change.

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The Prince has long been concerned resources, people and communities that we will continue to damage and to survive and prosper. over-consume the planet’s natural The work of the committee will be capital, on which we all depend for our informed by practical guidance survival, unless practical and robust developed by A4S in 2009 to help systems are developed to enable organizations implement a connected broader and longer-term factors to be or integrated reporting approach. This taken into account more effectively approach has been adopted by an in accounting and decision-making. increasing number of organizations, Since its launch in 2004, The Prince’s including the UK Government and Accounting for Sustainability Project leading businesses such as Aviva, BT, (A4S) has been working with business EDF Energy, Hammerson, HSBC and leaders, governments and academia Northern Foods. The Household’s to enable sustainability to become an sustainability account, applying these integral part of organizations’ day-to- connected reporting principles, can day operations. be found on pages 50 to 53. In December 2009, The Prince The success of A4S has been such announced the agreement to establish that over the past year, 19 accounting an “International Integrated Reporting bodies from across the world have Committee” (IIRC) at the annual recognized the crucial role that meeting of his A4S Forum. The IIRC accounting for sustainability must will bring together companies, play in providing today’s decision- investors and standard-setters to makers with the information they introduce a new, integrated reporting need and educating tomorrow’s model, one that ensures that financial accountants to embed sustainability reporting reflects an organization’s throughout the profession. dependence on the planet’s natural

In 2009, P8 developed a regional programme, with an initial focus on Asia, and continues to work closely with the UK Government, the Asian $3 trillion Development Bank and the World Bank on developing infrastructure funds MEMBERS OF the P8 initiative collectively manage to help countries achieve their low carbon development plans. over $3 trillion of investment capital worldwide The Prince of Wales has been at the forefront of encouraging socially responsible businesses for as long as anyone in British public life, and in 2010 BITC is celebrating 25 years of His Royal Highness’s presidency. For many of those years he has been personally leading senior businessmen 25 years on “Seeing is Believing” visits to socially deprived areas of the UK to show in 2010 BITC is celebrating 25 years of them the problems they can help solve. For example, in January 2010 he His Royal Highness’s presidency led a bus full of business leaders to Surrey Square Junior School in south London so that they could hear first-hand how local companies were helping to make a real difference in the community.

Executives from firms such as coffee giant Starbucks and energy supplier EDF were told how the school, which had recently been graded as “Outstanding” by assessors, was being helped by a range of local and national businesses, including the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers. The school visit was followed by a working session at St James’s Palace for chief executives who had led previous “Seeing is Believing” visits so that they could report back to His Royal Highness the impact their work was having on some of the most pressing social issues in the UK.

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The Prince of Wales believes that the built environment has an enormous influence on the quality of people’s lives, and that more can be done to create homes, offices and public buildings which encourage a sense of community and pride of place, in the process fostering the well-being of those who live there, alleviating social problems and contributing to greater sustainability.

The task of putting this thinking into practice falls primarily to The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment (PFBE). An educational charity set up by His Royal Highness in 1998, and which grew out of his original Institute of Architecture founded in 1992, it teaches and practises timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing and building. Based in east London, it participates in a series of projects throughout the UK and overseas, ranging from urban regeneration and town extensions to brownfield developments.

As well as acting as a planning consultant to public and private sector partners and clients, the PFBE teaches skills in sustainable development through seminars and workshops, and circulates new examples of practice through its global network, at all times highlighting the importance of both innovation and ABOVE time-tested principles in the building of successful communities. The Prince of Wales delivers his speech at the 2009 Royal Institute of British Architects The principles underlying this work were emphasized by The Prince in his (RIBA) Trust in London in speech in May 2009 at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to mark May 2009. the organization’s 175th anniversary. During his 40-minute lecture His Royal Highness highlighted the issue of global urbanization, noting that more than 60 per cent of the world’s population would be living in cities by 2030. He told RIBA members: “The primary response so far to this accelerating urbanization has been to view it as a short-term challenge of scale, and to respond to it by building bigger, more and faster, rather than questioning whether and to what extent such developments – still based on an outmoded paradigm of planning and design – is actually sustainable, economically, socially and environmentally.”

The Prince has campaigned for decades for the world to tackle climate change and he told the audience that as this issue was brought to bear upon buildings and places a three-stage approach would be needed: “At first a grounding in precedent, building upon what has worked well in the past; second an understanding of locality, the specific ‘DNA’, if you like, of a place, incorporating local intelligence and community input; and third, the incorporation of the best of new technology.”

Constructing lower-carbon buildings was one of the subjects discussed at the PFBE’s annual conference at St James’s Palace in February 2010, where the theme of the event was “Building: A New Green Economy”. Delegates heard from a range of experts and speakers and participated in a discussion forum led by Jonathan Porritt, former Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission. At the conference Hank Dittmar, the PFBE’s chief executive, spoke about the charity’s new research which showed how building greener and better could inject jobs and money into local economies, while achieving government carbon reduction targets.

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In January 2009, at the instigation of In May 2009, The Prince went to The Prince of Wales, his Foundation review the project’s progress at the for the Built Environment started Building Research Establishment’s construction on a unique eco-home. (BRE) Innovation Park in Watford, Called simply “the Natural House”, where the house is being constructed. and built using natural materials When it is completed in the Autumn including clay blocks, lime plaster of 2010, the Natural House will be and sheep’s wool insulation, the divided into a three-bedroom family project aims to show house builders home, a maisonette and a small flat that they can meet their low-carbon to demonstrate the flexible nature of targets for new homes while the design. This highlights the benefits embodying the traditional designs to house builders of a form of that prove so popular in the construction which can be adapted property market. easily to changing demographics and housing needs.

Constructing lower-carbon In November 2009, the PFBE joined forces with Business in the Community to buildings was one of the host a seminar entitled “Live/Work Spaces in the 21st Century” in Marylebone Village in central London. The aim of the conference, which was attended by subjects discussed at His Royal Highness, was to inform business leaders about the benefits of the PFBE’s annual developing truly sustainable urban communities. Representatives from 36 of the UK’s leading companies in the construction and planning industries, large conference at St James’s retailers and commercial property investors were told how management of Palace in February 2010, Marylebone High Street by representatives from the Howard de Walden Estate had revitalized the area and proved that having commercial and residential where the theme of the properties side-by-side, walkable neighbourhoods and traditional architecture event was “Building: adapted to modern use had helped to maintain property values. A New Green Economy”. Another of the charities working on improving the built environment is The Prince’s Regeneration Trust (PRT), and in March 2010 the charity was appointed to project manage the regeneration of Bletchley Park, the hub of Britain’s World War Two decryption operations and one of the most significant sites in 20th Century military history. Under the project, the PRT will be restoring several areas of the site, including some of the huts in which the code-breaking took place.

New life cannot be breathed into historic buildings unless craftsmen have the skills to restore them and The Prince has for many years championed the need for craft skills apprenticeships. In March 2010, His Royal Highness awarded graduation certificates to craft apprentices from the UK, the United States of America and Jamaica who had participated in a craft skills course run by the PFBE. The American students had participated in The Prince of Wales’s Rebuilding Communities Programme based in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, and had been trained in various disciplines from ironwork and stonemasonry to carpentry. The programme was established by His Royal Highness in 2009 to bring much needed training, jobs, historic building restoration and economic revitalization to the poorest parts of New Orleans.

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The Prince of Wales believes passionately in the timeless principles which underpin all good teaching, and in what he calls “the precious threads that have always linked the generations.” These enduring principles, and a belief in the enriching role that arts and culture can play in people’s lives, are central to the work of The Prince’s education and arts charities.

Foremost among them is The Prince’s Teaching Institute (PTI), an educational charity which offers state school teachers year-round training. Initially focusing on the subjects of English, History and Science and later extended to Geography and Mathematics, the PTI’s core philosophy is rooted in the belief that subject knowledge, subject rigour and enthusiasm for communicating them are essential requirements for effective teaching, and that education should be seen primarily as the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding and not just skills.

In November 2009, The Prince hosted a seminar and reception for headmasters and teachers from the 51 schools across the UK awarded the PTI’s Schools Programme Mark. Launched by The Prince in November ABOVE 2007, the programme rewards the development of inspirational ideas and The Duchess of Cornwall reading activities that enhance the teaching of English, History and Science. During to children from Avondale Park Primary School in London on World the reception, guests were given presentations by pupils from various Book Day in March 2010. The visit award‑winning schools, including Ulverston Victoria High School in Cumbria. was part of Her Royal Highness’s Ulverston A-Level student Laura Moses told the audience how the role of the growing commitment to support initiatives which promote literacy. PTI and projects led by teacher Tammy Nicholls had increased her passion for English and prompted her own desire to teach the subject. Ulverston was awarded the Schools Programme Mark for its work including a literary festival, promotion of reading and teachers’ theatre trips. By the end of the year, 228 departments from 151 schools had signed up to take part in the 2010 programme.

Another of The Prince’s education charities is The Prince’s Drawing School, an organization dedicated to teaching drawing as a living, evolving language that is central to an understanding and appreciation of art and architecture. Based in a converted warehouse in Shoreditch, the heart of London’s East End creative community, the school offers a broad range of courses, including master classes in its studios, in national museums and elsewhere, as well as running holiday workshops and community programmes.

A charity which focuses on educating younger students is The Prince’s Foundation for Children & The Arts, which aims to give children and young people the opportunity to have access to the very best of the arts. In June 2009, Their Royal Highnesses attended a gala performance of “Peter Pan” in aid of the charity.

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health

The Prince of Wales has long been involved with a wide variety of healthcare organizations, including hospitals and hospices which he helps with personal support, funding and regular visits. He has long advocated an integrated approach to healthcare.

This means placing an emphasis on prevention and on tackling the social and environmental causes of ill-health, as well as bringing together the best complementary and the best conventional approaches in order to create health, rather than simply treating disease.

This approach to healthcare has been the focus of the work of The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH) since its establishment in 1993. In May 2009, The Prince spoke about integrated medicine at a two-day FIH conference at the headquarters of The King’s Fund in London. After opening The King’s Fund new £3 million redevelopment project and presenting awards to organizations that have developed innovative ways of treating the needs of their users as a whole, His Royal Highness asked delegates: “If integration is so dangerous why have I never heard of any patients’ groups campaigning against it, and why have we not heard more opposition from doctors and nurses?” After 17 years of raising the profile of integrated healthcare and supporting improved ABOVE regulation of complementary therapies, the FIH will be closing in July 2010. The Prince of Wales talks with staff during his visit to the University College London Hospital in The Prince is patron of a number of leading cancer charities, and in February February 2010. 2010 he was accompanied by some of their representatives during a visit to the University College London Hospital (UCLH) to learn about its photodynamic The Duchess of Cornwall and “Strictly Come Dancing” judge therapy (PDT) services. PDT is a technique in which patients are given special Craig Revel Horwood during a visit drugs that make cancers sensitive to red light. Light from a laser can then be to St Clement Danes CE Primary applied directly to the tumour to destroy the cancers. UCLH has found that PDT is School in London on World Osteoporosis Day in October 2009. of particular value for treating a range of pre-cancers and early cancers of the skin (not melanomas) due to the cosmetic results, as well as having the potential to reduce side effects.

The Duchess of Cornwall is also involved in a number of health charities as their Patron, among them Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. In February 2010, Her Royal Highness attended a charity fashion show at London’s High Court in aid of Maggie’s and in the foreword to the show’s brochure she explained that she first became involved with the charity when she visited a centre in Edinburgh in 2007. The Duchess wrote: “On that first visit, I was immediately struck by the sense of light and colour, warmth and space. Each Maggie’s Centre is a beautifully designed building offering essential advice and emotional support, a sanctuary in a world where everything has been turned upside down.”

Her Royal Highness’s most high-profile role is as President of the National Osteoporosis Society, and in October 2009 she marked World National Osteoporosis Day by visiting St Clement Danes Primary School in London to congratulate the school on winning a competition to prove their “bone health credentials”. The prize was a dance lesson for the pupils led by Craig Revel Horwood, one of the judges on the BBC’s hugely popular “Strictly Come Dancing” show. During her visit, The Duchess was given an impromptu cha cha cha lesson by the judge, who gave her a “10-out-of-10” for her dancing.

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promoting and protecting

As well as supporting The Queen with her duties as Head of State and acting as a charitable entrepreneur, The Prince of Wales seeks to promote and protect the country’s enduring traditions, virtues and excellence. Among other things, this work involves highlighting achievements or issues that, without his support, might otherwise receive little exposure, supporting Britain’s rural communities, encouraging sustainable farming, and promoting tolerance and greater understanding between different faiths and communities.

LEFT In January 2010, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall attend a memorial ceremony on the High Street of Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire.

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During the past year, The Prince of Wales, with the support of The Duchess of Cornwall, has once again sought to promote and protect what is best about Britain and its people. This often involves The Prince acting personally as a catalyst to suggest change, to generate discussion, or to highlight neglected issues.

Achievement and service Their Royal Highnesses regularly participate in events to recognize the work of the emergency services, and in June 2009 The Prince visited the Metropolitan Police’s specialist training centre in Gravesend, Kent, to see how the police train for riots and other challenging situations. During his visit he watched one group of officers come under fire from petrol bombs, bricks and other debris in a simulated riot, and another group practice stopping a car driven by armed suspects. After the demonstrations, His Royal Highness met the officers involved, telling them that they all did “a fantastic job” for the country.

The emergency services are also called on to use their skills overseas, and in February 2010 The Prince and The Duchess met a group of firefighters from Greater Manchester that had just returned from working in the earthquake-shattered ruins of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. John Hughes of Salford Fire Station told Their Royal Highnesses of the moment the team rescued a two year-old girl trapped in the ruins of her nursery. Mr Hughes, a firefighter for 12 years, said: “She had been down there for three days... When we pulled her out it was a fantastic feeling.”

In September 2009, The Duchess of Cornwall launched a new lottery scheme for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal, which raises money to pay for a vital emergency service in the county where Her Royal Highness has ABOVE a family home. Philip Selwood, chairman of the Appeal, said at the event: The Duchess of Cornwall visits the “We are really proud that The Duchess of Cornwall has agreed to support disaster relief charity ShelterBox, of which she is president, in our charity. To have a Patron that is so highly regarded and with such Helston, Cornwall in March 2010. appropriate local affinities just makes this relationship even more perfect.”

The Prince of Wales meets CO19 officers at the Metropolitan Police Their Royal Highnesses also participate in engagements that highlight the Specialist Training Centre in work of volunteers throughout the UK, and in March 2010 The Duchess of Gravesend, Kent in June 2009. Cornwall visited the Helston headquarters of ShelterBox, a charity which organizes the delivery of emergency shelter and life-saving supplies to survivors of natural disasters. ShelterBox relies on volunteers to pack the supplies in the warehouses and to distribute them in the field. The visit was timed to coincide with ShelterBox’s 10th anniversary and enabled The Duchess, who is the charity’s president, to thank staff and volunteers for their recent work helping survivors of earthquakes in Chile and Haiti.

Rural communities, farming and food As a farmer himself, The Prince cares deeply about the British countryside and the welfare of those who live and work in it. Maintaining a healthy agricultural sector is vital to the country, not just because the landscape relies on the accumulated knowledge of farming communities for its continued stewardship, but also because the social fabric of the countryside depends on a strong farming base.

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For many years, His Royal Highness has been helping to develop initiatives that provide farmers with practical help as well as moral support, and in January 2010 he started a new initiative called The Prince’s Wool Project. It was set up after The Prince, concerned about the low prices farmers were receiving for their wool, called together representatives of carpet manufacturers, retailers and wool-growers to discuss what could be done to boost sales of wool. The result of the discussions was The Wool Project, which aims to improve sales of British and Commonwealth wool by highlighting to consumers its environmental and social benefits.

Protecting indigenous wildlife has long been important to The Prince and in April 2009 His Royal Highness launched a new charity to protect one of the country’s most endangered native species. Speaking at the launch of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust in Kendal, Cumbria, he warned that the animal, under threat from the growing number of grey squirrels, could be extinct in the UK within 10 years. “The terrifying reality is that, within a decade, if we cannot work together to bring in the necessary funding for the task which needs to be done, the red squirrel could be totally extinct across the UK.”

In July 2009, The Prince of Wales hosted a reception at Clarence House to mark 10 years of the Marine Stewardship Council, an organization that promotes sustainable fishing practices across the globe. In a speech at the reception, His Royal Highness said that if fishing carried on without any ABOVE care for long-term sustainability “we will soon face a nightmare collapse in In April 2009, The Prince of Wales stocks and inevitable starvation amongst the world’s poorest people.” visits a company which makes insulation for buildings using wool from British hill sheep. Faith and ethnic communities Encouraging tolerance in Britain of the country’s many different faiths and The Prince of Wales gives a speech during a visit to St Mellitus College, communities and celebrating their contribution to national life throughout the St Paul’s Church, London in UK has long been a feature of The Prince’s work. February 2010. In February 2010, The Prince of Wales praised the efforts of those in the Church of England who help people search for spiritual understanding in a “fragmented world” during a visit to St Mellitus College at St Paul’s Church in London. His Royal Highness took part in a discussion about forgiveness and Christianity with student clergy, and met parishioners, youth workers and ex-offenders who work on projects linked to the church in Kensington. In a speech, The Prince said he was “proud and grateful” for the work being done in churches across the country. “In today’s world of fragmentation and disconnection, the greatest challenge is how you re-connect people to anything like a spiritual understanding,” he said.

In the same month, His Royal Highness was guest of honour at a large gathering of members of the UK’s Sufi Muslim community. At the event, held at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium, The Prince met delegations of Sufi Muslims from Britain, Kosovo, Pakistan and Somalia, and was entertained by a display of whirling dervishes and Arabic music and drums.

Correspondence and meetings As well as raising issues publicly to bring attention to matters that might otherwise be overlooked, His Royal Highness, as a Privy Counsellor himself, also privately corresponds with, and meets, Government Ministers, business leaders and other people of influence on a variety of subjects that have been brought to his notice or which concern him as a result of many meetings and visits all over the UK and abroad. In doing so, The Prince is always careful to avoid party political issues.

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INCOME, EXPENDITURE, STAFF and sustainability

This section describes how The Prince of Wales’s, The Duchess of Cornwall’s and Prince William’s and Prince Harry’s activities and offices are financed and outlines the responsibilities of their senior staff. The majority of staff and official and charitable activities are paid for from His Royal Highness’s private income from the Duchy of Cornwall. The section also reports the Household’s sustainability performance.

LEFT Clarence House, the official London residence of The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry. Mark Mackenzie Photography

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Year to 31st March 2010 2009 £000s £000s Income and funding Income and funding Duchy of Cornwall 17,161 16,458 (Total £18.825m for 2010) Grants-In-Aid 1,132 2,212 Other Government Departments 532 821

Total income and funding 18,825 19,491

Expenditure Official duties and charitable activities 9,059 9,480

Grants-In-Aid: London office and official residence 360 422 Duchy of Cornwall Grants-In-Aid Official travel by air and rail 692 1,710 Other Government Departments Communications support 80 80 1,132 2,212 Expenditure (Total £10.723m for 2010) Overseas tours and military secondees 532 821 Official expenditure 10,723 12,513

Surplus after Official Costs 8,102 6,978

Tax (includes VAT) 3,484 3,093 Non-official expenditure 1,694 1,710

Operating surplus 2,924 2,175 Official duties and charitable activities Grants-In-Aid Capital expenditure (less depreciation), Overseas tours and military secondees loan repayments and transfer to reserves 2,695 2,018

Net cash surplus 229 157

Income and funding £millions Duchy of Cornwall 17.161

Duchy of Cornwall The Prince of Wales’s private income comes from the Duchy of Cornwall, an estate comprising agricultural, commercial and residential property mostly in the South West of England. The Duchy also has a financial investment portfolio.

The Duchy estate was created in 1337 by Edward III for his son, Prince Edward, and its primary function was, and is, to provide The Prince of Wales as Heir to The Throne with an income. As the current Duke of Cornwall, The Prince of Wales is actively involved in running the Duchy, and ensures, in particular, that environmental and agricultural best practice, sustainable development, and working in partnership with tenants and local communities, are at the heart of the Duchy’s management approach.

Since The Prince of Wales assumed responsibility for its management on his 21st birthday in 1969, the growth in the Duchy’s capital has been significant and, since valuations were introduced, has greatly exceeded the increase in His Royal Highness’s income from the estate. In order to ensure that the income continues to be available from generation to generation, The Duke of Cornwall has no access to the Duchy’s capital. This means that the proceeds and profits from the sale of capital assets are not distributed to The Prince of Wales but are reinvested within the Duchy.

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His Royal Highness Furthermore, to ensure that the management of the Duchy gives sufficient emphasis to chooses to use the the protection and enhancement of its capital assets, legislation was introduced in the 19th Century requiring the Duchy to be run on a commercial basis and for the Treasury majority of his income to act, in effect, as a trustee to ensure that future Dukes’ interests are protected. The main from the Duchy to way in which the Treasury fulfils this role is by approving all land and property transactions with a value of £500,000 or more. The Duchy’s accounts are laid before Parliament each meet the cost of his, year so that it can be satisfied that the Treasury is fulfilling its responsibilities in this The Duchess of respect. The basis on which the Duchy is run was reaffirmed by the Treasury in 2005. Cornwall’s and Prince His Royal Highness chooses to use the majority of his income from the Duchy to meet William’s and Prince the cost of his, The Duchess of Cornwall’s and Prince William’s and Prince Harry’s public and charitable work. Harry’s public and charitable work. The Duchy of Cornwall’s annual accounts can be obtained online at www.duchyofcornwall.org.

£millions Grants-In-Aid 1.132

Funding to meet official costs incurred by or in support of The Queen as Head of State is provided by Parliament in return for the surrender of the revenue from the Crown Estate. This funding is provided in three ways: (i) a Civil List for The Queen and a Parliamentary Annuity for The Duke of Edinburgh, (ii) Grants-In-Aid, and (iii) costs met directly by Government Departments. The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William and Prince Harry do not receive a Civil List or Parliamentary Annuity, but the Grants-In-Aid paid to The Queen’s Household are used, in part, to support their official activities.

There are three Grants-In-Aid: the Property Services Grant-In-Aid, which meets the costs of maintaining official residences and offices used by Members of the Royal Family and their staff; the Royal Travel by Air and Rail Grant-In-Aid, which meets the cost of official journeys undertaken by Members of the Royal Family and their staff by air and rail; and the Royal Communications and Information Grant-In-Aid, which is considerably smaller than the other two and meets some official communications costs incurred on behalf of Members of the Royal Family.

Annual accounts are published for the three Grants-In-Aid. Copies are reproduced on www.royal.gov.uk or may be obtained from the Deputy Treasurer to The Queen, Buckingham Palace, London SW1A 1AA.

£millions Government Departments 0.532

For The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, Government Departments meet expenditure in respect of the provision of staff on secondment from the Armed Services (£391,404 spent by the Ministry of Defence in 2009-10) and some costs of official overseas visits undertaken at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (£140,692 spent by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2009-10).

41 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 Expenditure £millions Official duties and charitable activities 9.059

Over 60 per cent of The Prince of Wales’s after-tax income from the Duchy of Cornwall was spent on official and charitable duties. Of the £9.059 million, staff costs accounted for £6.3 million, or 69 per cent. An analysis of official expenditure is given on page 49.

The Prince of Wales employs directly 149 full-time equivalent staff. Of these, 124 support Their Royal Highnesses, including Prince William and Prince Harry, in undertaking official duties and charitable activities, and 25 are personal, garden and farm staff.

The table on page 44 lists the official staff by Household department and also gives the total cost, including salaries and other expenditure, of each department.

£millions Grant-In-Aid: London office and official residence 0.360

Clarence House is the London office and official residence for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, and the official residence for Prince William and Prince Harry. It is used for official dinners, receptions and meetings, as well as for offices for Their Royal Highnesses’ official staff. The principal rooms, which are on the ground floor of Clarence House, are open to the public from August until the end of September annually. More than 3,700 people were entertained officially at Clarence House during the year, and there were 18,826 paying visitors. The Household also has offices in other parts of St James’s Palace, including the Household of Prince William and Prince Harry. The Property Services Grant-in-Aid meets the cost of the maintenance of Clarence House and of the other offices at St James’s Palace.

£millions Grant-In-Aid: Official travel by air and rail 0.692

An important part of The Prince of Wales’s role as Heir to The Throne is, with The Duchess of Cornwall, to bring people together around the UK, to act as a focal point for national life and to represent the country overseas. This involves a significant amount of travel that needs to be undertaken in a way which meets efficiency, security and presentational requirements. In 2009-10, Their Royal Highnesses travelled 42,910 miles to and from official engagements in the UK and overseas. This figure includes 27,138 miles of overseas travel. The cost of these journeys, excluding travel by car, amounted to £692,325 in 2009-10 and was met by The Royal Travel by Air and Rail Grant-in-Aid.

This figure includes the variable costs only for journeys undertaken using 32 Squadron, The Queen’s Helicopter and the Royal Train. This is because the fixed costs are incurred irrespective of whether the aircraft and train are used and do not result from undertaking specific journeys. For a full explanation, see the Grant-In-Aid for Royal Travel by Air and Rail Annual Report 2009-10 – available at www.royal.gov.uk.

£millions Grant-In-Aid: Communications support 0.080

The Prince of Wales’s Office incurs expenditure developing and running a communications programme, maintaining a Press Office, updating and developing its website, providing general and educational information to the press and public, and providing Press Officers to assist the media at official engagements and visits. The majority of these costs are met by The Prince of Wales personally. However, some of the costs incurred in assisting the media at engagements around the country, referred to as communications support, have traditionally been met from the Royal Communications and Information Grant-In-Aid.

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£millions Their Royal Military secondees and overseas tours 0.532 Highnesses’ Three members of the Equerry’s Office and three of the five Orderlies are seconded overseas tours from the Armed Forces to assist The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall are undertaken in undertaking official duties. The role of the Equerry’s Office is explained on page 47. The cost to the Ministry of Defence in 2009-10 was £391,404. at the request of the UK Government. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office meets the cost of official visits abroad by The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William and Prince Harry (except for travel costs which are met from the Royal Travel by Air and Rail Grant-In-Aid). In 2009-10, Their Royal Highnesses undertook tours to: Italy, the Vatican and Germany in April 2009; Canada in November 2009; and Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in March 2010. Also, His Royal Highness made short visits during the year to France, Denmark, Afghanistan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These visits are undertaken at the request and in support of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to build on and strengthen the good relations which the UK enjoys with countries throughout the world. The cost of these visits to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office amounted to £140,692 in 2009-10.

£millions Tax 3.484

The Prince of Wales pays income tax voluntarily on the surplus of the Duchy of Cornwall, applying normal income tax rules and at the 40 per cent rate, and pays income tax on all other income and capital gains tax like any private individual. The £3.484 million includes VAT. If employer’s National Insurance contributions and Council Tax are included, the total increases to £4.0 million.

£millions Non-official expenditure 1.694

In addition to paying for the official duties of The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry, some charitable activities and The Prince’s tax liabilities, the income from the Duchy of Cornwall is used to meet non-official expenditure of The Prince of Wales and his family.

Non-official expenditure includes the salary cost of 8.6 full-time equivalent personal staff, including personal secretaries, chefs, valets, and staff for The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry. In addition, there are 16.4 full-time equivalent estate, farm, garden and stable staff. Personal expenditure also includes the appropriate share of the cost of Highgrove House and Birkhall, and of maintaining the estate and garden at Highgrove. The garden is a valuable charitable asset, and was visited last year by almost 34,000 people.

The costs of The Home Farm, The Prince’s organic farm on the Highgrove Estate, are included under this heading. The Home Farm is a working farm established by The Prince of Wales to demonstrate the commercial and environmental benefits of organic and sustainable farming. It was visited by approximately 1,580 people last year.

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As at and for the year to 31st March 2010 Full-time Official Costs equivalent staff £000s 2010 2010 Principal Private Secretary and Assistants 3.5

Private Secretaries’ Office The Private Secretary 1.0 Other Private Secretaries 7.1 Research and Administration 12.5 Correspondence 3.5

Office of Prince William and Prince Harry 3.8 31.4 2,705

Finance, Personnel and Administration Treasurer and Assistants 2.3 Finance and Inventory 8.0 Personnel 7.6 Archives 3.0 20.9 2,010

Communications Communications Secretary and Assistant 2.0 Press Secretary 1.0 Assistant Press Secretaries 2.2 Press Officers and Website Editor 4.0 9.2 781

Master of the Household’s Department Master of the Household and Assistants 4.4 Equerries 2.0 Programme and Travel Co-ordinators 4.0 Butlers 1.3 Chefs and Kitchen Porters 4.4 Orderlies 5.3 Reception 1.0 Chauffeurs 3.0 House Managers and Housekeepers 11.8 Valets and Dressers 2.5 Gardeners and Estate Workers 15.9 55.6 3,563 Director of Charities Office Director and Assistants 2.7 Head of Operations 1.0 Head of Development and Website Editor 2.0 Adviser 0.2 Project Manager 1.0 6.9 –

Total Official Staff as at 31st March 2010 124.0 9,059

Charitable Activities based at Clarence House International Sustainability Unit 7.5 Accounting for Sustainability 4.0 Other Charitable Projects 2.2 13.7 –

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Offices The principal office The principal office of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, where most of The Prince of of their staff work, is in Clarence House and other parts of St James’s Palace in Central London. The office of Prince William and Prince Harry is also in St James’s Palace. Wales and The The cost of maintaining the fabric of the buildings, as well as of utilities and fixed-line Duchess of Cornwall, telephones (but not other costs for Clarence House and the London office), is met from the Property Services Grant-In-Aid (see page 42). There are also offices for official staff where most of their at Their Royal Highnesses’ residences of Highgrove and Birkhall to assist The Prince staff work, is in with his continuing work. Some costs incurred at Highgrove and Birkhall are, therefore, charged to the ‘Official duties and charitable activities’ expenditure category. Clarence House and other parts of Staff and office organization

St James’s Palace The Principal Private Secretary in central London. The Principal Private Secretary is the senior member of The Prince of Wales’s and The Duchess of Cornwall’s Household and is responsible for all aspects of running the Household and for overseeing His Royal Highness’s charitable and other organizations.

The Private Secretaries’ Office The Private Secretary is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Private Secretaries’ Office. He and the other Private Secretaries facilitate and support The Prince of Wales’s and The Duchess of Cornwall’s official duties, engagements and charitable activities. They are responsible for Their Royal Highnesses’ diaries, arrange briefing sessions, receptions and other functions, administer correspondence, and co-ordinate research and briefing to support their work. Each Private Secretary is responsible for specific areas and for liaising Their Royal with certain of The Prince’s and The Duchess’s organizations. These responsibilities, as Highnesses see well as those of other senior staff, are listed in the Appendix (see pages 54 and 55). They also ensure that His Royal Highness is kept informed about topical issues, and provide a wide selection of him with background information for his communications with Government Ministers and the correspondence other leading figures, and prepare drafts for speeches and articles. The Private Secretaries are supported by researchers, personal assistants and administrative staff, and work and The Prince closely with their colleagues in The Queen’s Private Secretaries’ Office. personally wrote The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry receive 1,869 letters in a large number of letters each year. In 2009-10, for example, they received 24,616 letters. 2009-10. People from all over the world write to Their Royal Highnesses, although the majority of the letters are from the UK.

Letters cover a wide range of subjects and are often prompted by current issues and debates. Their Royal Highnesses see a wide selection of the correspondence and reply to many of the letters they receive. The Prince personally wrote 1,869 letters in 2009-10. The Duchess of Cornwall personally wrote 818. They jointly wrote 22. Their Royal Highnesses ensure that letters not answered by themselves or their Private Secretaries are replied to by the Correspondence Section on their behalf. In addition, The Prince and The Duchess receive many requests from a wide range of charities and other organizations for donations or items for auction. Requests for donations are dealt with by the Finance Section, while requests for items to auction are handled by the Correspondence Section. While it is not possible to respond to all the many requests for items to auction, His Royal Highness donates items such as lithographs of his watercolours, signed books and tours of the garden at Highgrove.

In 2009-10, items donated for auction raised in excess of £88,000 for charity.

45 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 The Household of Prince William and Prince Harry The Private Secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry is responsible for the day-to- Three Archivists day running of their Household, including official engagements and charitable work. are responsible for The office also supports, plans and advises with respect to the Princes’ military and longer-term careers, and deals with administrative matters. managing all the papers and files The Treasurer’s Office The Treasurer’s Office is responsible for Finance and Inventory, Personnel and relating to the public Administration, and Archives. The Office is also responsible for information systems life of The Prince across the Household. of Wales since The Finance Section exercises financial control through a combination of annual the late 1960s. budgets, monthly management accounts and a series of accounting systems and procedures, particularly for the authorization of expenditure. It is also responsible for achieving best value for money and maintains an inventory of Their Royal Highnesses’ gifts and assets.

The Treasurer has financial and administrative responsibility for The Prince’s Charities Foundation in the UK and the US Charitable Foundation. She is also responsible for one of the UK Foundation’s trading subsidiaries, A. G. Carrick Limited, which receives the income from the sale of lithographs of The Prince’s paintings and royalties from the publication of books. In addition, the Treasurer monitors the financial affairs of The Prince’s key charities and is responsible for publishing, contractual and legal In 2009-10 Their matters. The Household seeks to provide a fulfilling work environment and to maximize Royal Highnesses’ individuals’ contribution and job satisfaction. The Personnel Section manages the achievement of these objectives including staff recruitment, remuneration, training official website www. and career development, internal communications and employee relations. It also princeofwales.gov.uk arranges secondments, national and international appointments and work experience placements. The majority of the Household’s information technology systems are attracted 4.6 million provided and supported by the Information Systems Management section at page impressions. Buckingham Palace, with the Household’s cost met by The Prince of Wales.

Three Archivists are responsible for managing all the papers and files relating to the public life of The Prince of Wales since the late 1960s. The Senior Archivist also manages requests for The Prince and The Duchess to become patron or president of organizations, as well as existing patronages and presidencies. Two inventory controllers are responsible for the recording and safekeeping of gifts and assets owned by Their Royal Highnesses.

Communications As Heir to The Throne, there is extensive public and media interest in the activities of The Prince of Wales, as well as in The Duchess of Cornwall, and Prince William and Prince Harry. The Press Office’s role is to provide information and facilitate a better understanding, for a wide audience, of The Prince of Wales’s work and activities. The Press Office also handles media enquiries for The Duchess of Cornwall and the two Princes, and liaises closely with colleagues in the Buckingham Palace Press Office in respect of general issues to do with the Monarchy.

The Communications Secretary is responsible for the Press Office, which consists of the Press Secretary, three Assistant Press Secretaries (one of whom is responsible specifically for handling day-to-day enquiries about Prince William and Prince Harry), two Press Officers, an Assistant Press Officer, a Website Editor and a departmental PA.

In 2009-10 www.princeofwales.gov.uk attracted 4.6 million page impressions. It is a popular information resource for the media, researchers and the public from the UK and overseas. In addition to the latest news about Their Royal Highnesses’ engagements, the site provides information about their work and charitable activities,

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as well as recent speeches and articles, biographical details, and a picture gallery. The 185 videos on Information and news about Prince William and Prince Harry are also available on the The Royal Channel site. Videos made in-house by the Press Office are available on the official website and on The Royal Channel on YouTube which is part-managed with Buckingham Palace. have been viewed The Royal Channel has just over 30,000 subscribers, and the 185 videos have been more than seven viewed more than seven million times. million times. The Prince’s Charities Community website (http://princescharities.org) is run by the Charities Office and brings together news and blogs from all The Prince of Wales’s charities. People are encouraged to join the community which enables them to receive a monthly newsletter and enter competitions.

9,396 Master of the Household’s Department guests entertained at clarence The Master of the Household is responsible for the programme of engagements house and other royal residences for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, the Equerry’s Office, Their Royal Highnesses’ residences, offices and gardens, personal staff, receptions and all entertaining, together with security and confidentiality. The Equerry’s Office manages Their Royal Highnesses’ diaries on a daily basis, providing an interface between staff, Police and outside organizations, and plan the longer-term programme. The Equerry’s 115 Office also manages the logistical and transport arrangements for official visits at home receptions, seminars, lunches and abroad. There are usually several overseas visits a year. The Equerry is a serving and dinners given by Their military officer seconded from the Armed Forces to the Household for a period of Royal Highnesses approximately two years.

Each year The Prince and The Duchess receive thousands of invitations from a wide range of public and private sector organizations. Each is given careful consideration by Their Royal Highnesses and their staff. The Equerry liaises with the Private Secretaries, the Press Office, and key organizations to ensure that each year in their visits The Prince and The Duchess cover a broad range of interests and meet a wide cross-section of people in as many parts of the country as possible.

The Equerry and Assistant Equerry also provide a point of contact for military and defence issues. The Prince of Wales maintains close links with the Armed Forces, not just in Britain but also in the Commonwealth. The Prince holds the rank of Admiral in the Royal Navy, General in the Army and Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force.

The Prince of Wales conducts investitures at Buckingham Palace (he conducted nine in 2009-10) and attends state functions on behalf of The Queen. The Equerry’s Office is responsible for the arrangements for these engagements.

Official entertaining is an important part of The Prince of Wales’s and The Duchess of Cornwall’s role. Last year they entertained 9,396 guests at Clarence House and other Royal residences. These occasions range from receiving official guests and foreign dignitaries to giving dinners and concerts to thank those involved with The Prince’s and The Duchess’s charities. In 2009-10, Their Royal Highnesses gave 115 receptions, seminars, lunches and dinners. For larger receptions and dinners, external event managers oversee the planning and administrative and catering arrangements.

Most of the staff who manage and organize these occasions are required to be on duty seven days a week, including most evenings, with a week on/week off rota. The cost of staff who assist The Prince and The Duchess in a private capacity is allocated to non-official expenditure. Butlers act as ‘front of house’ for Their Royal Highnesses, meeting guests, organizing refreshments and setting up rooms. They work closely with the house managers, who oversee all the domestic and cleaning arrangements, as well as with the chefs.

47 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 One butler is on duty at all times. The Prince of Wales has valets and travelling orderlies, The Prince of Wales working in pairs one week on and one week off, to assist him with his clothing and and The Duchess of uniforms, and with the many transport and travelling requirements. The same valets and orderlies also perform a similar role for Prince William and Prince Harry. The Duchess Cornwall use their has two members of staff who perform a similar function. home at Highgrove The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall use their home at Highgrove and, in and, in particular, the particular, the Orchard Room within its grounds, for official engagements and entertaining. Orchard Room within The Orchard Room was designed and built by The Prince specifically to entertain official guests. In 2009-10, it was used for 15 receptions, seminars and briefings for more than its grounds, for 2,000 guests, and visitors to the garden have refreshments there. It also contains one of official engagements the two Highgrove shops. and entertaining. Last year, almost 34,000 people toured the garden at Highgrove, taking the total number of visits since the garden was opened to the public in 1992 to about 244,000. The visitors between them voluntarily donated £315,000 to The Prince’s charitable organizations. They were also able to buy items from the Highgrove shop, which donates all its profits to The Prince’s Charities Foundation. In addition, those attending Summer official receptions normally look around the garden. Committed to conserving Britain’s natural heritage, The Prince uses the garden as a conservation area for endangered varieties of plants, flowers and trees, and hopes that those who visit enjoy seeing the benefits of natural land management and organic gardening.

An entrance fee for garden tours at Highgrove was introduced in March 2010, bringing it into line with other Royal residences which are open to the public. The proceeds from these tours are donated to The Prince’s Charities Foundation. Visitors are able to buy tickets for garden tours using the Royal Collection’s ticketing facilities.

Gardening students and researchers work in the garden throughout the year and The Prince employs a team of gardeners. Because the garden is mainly used for visits by members of the public, the majority of the costs of the garden is allocated to official expenditure (although official as well as personal costs are met from His Royal Highness’s private income). The balance, which is assumed to relate to The Prince’s and The Duchess’s personal enjoyment of the garden, is allocated to non-official expenditure.

The Master of the Household’s Department also includes Orderlies (who maintain office equipment and are responsible for office supplies, stationery and office cars), and Receptionists, and it has responsibility for health and safety. The Master of the Household, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police, is also responsible for security and confidentiality.

The Prince’s Charities The Charities Office is managed by the Director of Charities, supported by a Deputy Director. The costs of the Charities Office are met by The Prince’s Charities Foundation.

The Office’s primary responsibility is to provide support and advice to the charities covering corporate governance, donations policy and fund raising, planning, finance and communications.

The Charities Office also facilitates liaison and synergy between the charities, helps with the appointment of Chairmen and Trustees, and oversees the development of new ideas and initiatives. The Charities Office also manages The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, The Prince’s Rainforests Project and The Prince’s International Sustainability Unit.

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The Prince and Annual visits The Duchess make The Prince and The Duchess make a number of visits to Scotland and Wales every year, a number of visits and in addition stay for a working week at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh to Scotland and and at their Llwynywermod home in Wales. The cost of these longer annual visits, which principally relates to receptions and dinners, amounted to £23,761 in 2009-10, and is Wales every year, included in ‘official entertaining’ expenditure. and in addition stay for a working week Official costs analysed by expenditure category at the Palace of Expenditure has been analysed and explained in the preceding sections by Holyroodhouse department. The following table analyses official duties and charitable activities expenditure by category. in Edinburgh and at their Llwynywermod Year to 31st March £000s £000s 2010 2009 home in Wales. Staff costs 6,303 6,244 Training, recruitment and staff welfare 174 230 Travel and subsistence 229 308 External consultancy and professional fees 141 171 Official entertaining and receptions 252 527 Donations and gifts 78 66 Utilities 193 182 Residences and offices not paid for from the Grant-In-Aid 545 703 Press and information services 116 89 Stationery and office equipment 186 218 Computers and information systems 364 347 Housekeeping and office cleaning 122 105 Insurance 58 45 Gardens 125 65 Depreciation 173 180

Total 9,059 9,480

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The Household uses the Connected Reporting Framework, developed by The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, to report its sustainability performance. By bringing together financial, environmental and community-related information, the framework provides a more complete and balanced record of an organization’s overall performance and condition.

The Household’s main sustainability impacts are as a result of Their Royal Highnesses’ work with people, communities and organizations, actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from travel, heating and lighting, and sustainable farming at Highgrove.

Communities

Support for people, communities and organizations is a major part of The Prince’s vision and work and a primary focus for his charities and engagements programme.

Year to 31st March 2010 2009 2008 2007 £m £m £m £m Funds raised for The Prince’s Charities 110 130 122 110 Expenditure on official duties and charitable activities 9.1 9.5 8.0 7.3 Much of the work Total taxes paid 4.0 3.6 3.9 3.8 of The Prince’s Total number of official engagements 755 743 671 688 Charities is focused

Funds raised for The Prince’s Charities and expenditure and taxes vary with economic and other conditions. on creating, The total number of official engagements comprises all Their Royal Highnesses’ engagements undertaken separately and jointly in the UK and abroad. developing and strengthening The Prince’s Charities represent, as a group, the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the UK. Much of the work of The Prince’s Charities is focused on creating, developing communities. and strengthening communities.

Similarly, Their Royal Highnesses’ engagements are intended to cast a light on excellence and achievement in communities across all sectors of society, to bring people together in support of community-based initiatives and endeavours, to promote and protect traditions that are shared and valued by people from many different walks of life and to act as a focal point for local and national unity and cohesion.

The environment

Total CO2e emissions (Tonnes) Their Royal Highnesses’ Household strives to minimize its carbon emissions. This is Year to 31st March achieved by reducing energy consumption and by greater use of renewable energy. Greenhouse gas emissions 6,000 5,000 Year to 31st March 2010 2009 2008 2007 4,000

CO2e emissions tonnes tonnes tonnes tonnes Energy – heating and lighting 484 530 656 917 3,000 UK official and other travel 755 818 1,177 1,579 2,000 Emissions attributable to the Household 1,239 1,348 1,833 2,496 1,000 Emissions attributable to overseas official travel 1,479 1,253 962 929 2007 2008 2009 2010

Household CO2e emissions 2,718 2,601 2,795 3,425 The Home Farm at Highgrove 2,044 2,377 2,422 2,322 Household: Sources under the Total emissions 4,762 4,978 5,217 5,747 Household’s control Household: Official overseas travel Expenditure £000s £000s £000s £000s The Home Farm Carbon offset expenditure 25 25 23 19 Investment to reduce emissions 17 70 498 154

Investment to reduce emissions includes capital expenditure by the Household and from the Property Services Grant-In-Aid. The numbers have been restated to include interest on capital projects where applicable.

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Combined greenhouse gas emissions from the Household and The Home Farm fell this year. The following sections explain the main reasons for the change. Emissions from sources under the Household’s control were reduced by eight per cent. This was offset by an increase from official overseas travel undertaken on behalf of the Government, which is outside the Household’s control. This meant that total emissions only reduced by four per cent.

A target was set in 2007 to reduce emissions, excluding The Home Farm at Highgrove, by 25 per cent by 2012. A reduction of 21 per cent was achieved by 2010. The Home Farm was excluded because figures for it were not available in 2007.

Travel

Year to 31st March 2010 2009 2008 2007

CO2e emissions (Tonnes) CO2e emissions tonnes tonnes tonnes tonnes Breakdown of CO e emissions for travel 2 Official overseas travel 1,479 1,253 962 929 Official UK travel by air and rail 287 405 466 565 3,000 Total official travel 1,766 1,658 1,428 1,494 Other travel 468 413 711 1,014 Total CO e emissions from travel 2,234 2,071 2,139 2,508 2,000 2

£000s £000s £000s £000s Expenditure on official air 1,000 and rail travel 692 1,710 1,157 1,485

Further details about official travel are given on page 42. “Other travel” includes all staff travel, staff commuting and Their Royal Highnesses’ private travel. 2007 2008 2009 2010 The majority of carbon emissions from travel arise as a result of overseas trips Other travel Official UK travel by air and rail undertaken by Their Royal Highnesses at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Official overseas travel Office. As a result of several European visits (including to Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary) and two long-haul overseas trips (to Canada The 2010 carbon emissions and Afghanistan) emissions this year increased by 18 per cent. are calculated according to the Household’s Carbon Reporting Policy and Household emissions Official UK travel by air and rail, which is directly under the Household’s control, fell by have been subject to independent 29 per cent due to the use of more efficient aircraft and the conversion of the Royal assurance. Train to run on biodiesel made from used cooking oil.

Further details are available at www.princeofwales.gov.uk To help reduce the impact of other Household travel, The Prince’s cars run on biofuels produced from used cooking oil or surplus wine. Staff are encouraged to use public transport wherever possible and facilities are provided for staff who cycle or walk to work.

Heating and lighting

Year to 31st March 2010 2009 2008 2007

Energy use by source (MWh) Energy use MWh MWh MWh MWh Electricity – derived from fossil fuels 267 272 386 788 4,000 Heating – gas and oil 1,740 1,910 2,100 2,125 Total derived from fossil fuels 2,007 2,182 2,486 2,913 3,000 Electricity – renewable sources 527 504 383 29 Heating – renewable sources 1,008 825 79 – 2,000 Total derived from renewables 1,535 1,329 462 – Total energy use 3,542 3,511 2,948 – 1,000 tonnes tonnes tonnes tonnes

CO2e emissions from heating 2007 2008 2009 2010 and lighting 484 530 656 917

Heating – renewable sources £000s £000s £000s £000s Electricity – renewable sources Heating – gas and oil Expenditure on energy 196 187 150 153 Electricity – derived from fossil fuels Renewable heat use is estimated using a combination of meter readings, fuel use and space heating calculations.

51 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 The Household aims to reduce its carbon emissions from energy use by increasing energy efficiency and through greater use of renewable energy. In 2009-10 an estimated 43 per cent (2008: 38 per cent) of energy for heating and lighting was derived from renewable sources. These include wood chip, electricity from renewable sources and heat from air- and ground-source heat pumps.

The Household has also helped its staff reduce their impact by installing ground-source heat pumps in staff cottages on the Highgrove Estate and by providing advice to staff through the Energy Saving Trust during Energy Saving Week.

In 2010-11 the Household plans to continue to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels by further use of air- and ground-source heat pumps and the installation of solar photovoltaic panels.

Natural resources

The Household aims to make sustainable use of the resources provided by natural capital including fresh water, raw materials and capacity to assimilate waste and pollution.

Waste The Household started separate food waste collection this year to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. Vegetable peelings, animal bones and most other food remains are collected by a local social enterprise and turned into compost for community groups and for use on allotments in south London to promote local, sustainable food production.

A range of materials is collected for recycling at each of the residences, diverting further waste from landfills.

Water

Year to 31st March 2010 2009 2008 2007

Water use m3 m3 m3 m3 Water use (m3) Total measured water use 5,926 4,773 8,113 7,548 Measured water use, m3 (’000s litres).

£000s £000s £000s £000s 10,000

Expenditure on water 16 13 15 13 8,000

6,000 Measured water use has increased this year as water used at Llwynywermod is 4,000 now included. 2,000 Several measures to reduce processed mains water use are in place, such as the 2007 2008 2009 2010 collection of rainwater and grey water recycling at Highgrove and Birkhall. Bottled water for meetings has been replaced by filtered tap water. Environmentally-friendly biodegradable cleaning products are also used to reduce water pollution.

Paper use

Year to 31st March 2010 2009 2008 2007 Paper use Paper use kg kg kg kg per staff member (kg) Paper use per member of staff (FTE) 35 46 44 56 60

Members of staff are encouraged to reduce printing and photocopying and to use 50 double-sided printing as far as possible. Recycled paper and other environmentally- 40 friendly stationery items are ordered where available. 30

2007 2008 2009 2010

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The Home Farm

Healthy, living soil is an essential part of the Earth’s natural capital. Careful management is vital for food to be grown in the long term and for soil to continue to be an important store of carbon. Soil is largely a mix of minerals and plant and animal remains. Well-maintained healthy soil supports plant growth without the need for regular fossil fuel intensive inputs.

Traditional, sustainable farming practices such as the crop rotations used at The Home Farm for over 25 years promote healthy soil and, by working with nature, help protect and enhance natural capital.

Animals such as beef cattle form an important part of crop rotations. The fields use the sun’s energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into energy in the form of grass, clover and other forage plants. This is a natural diet for the cattle, which spend about half the year outside. Not only is this lifestyle better for the cows but their manure, along with nitrogen-fixing clover, provides fertility to the soil for rotational crops such as wheat and oats.

By incorporating cattle manure and plant-matter in the soil following the fertility-building phase, significant quantities of carbon can be stored, reducing net greenhouse gas emissions. Net emissions are reduced further by not using fossil fuel intensive artificial fertilizers and pesticides.

Farm management practices like those used at The Home Farm tend to add most carbon in the first few decades. The Home Farm has been run on an organic basis for several decades and it is considered that much of the potential soil carbon storage is likely to have already occurred, with farming practices continuing to help protect carbon stocks. The maintenance of hedgerows and field margins also increases carbon stored both in the soil and in the plants above ground. The table below provides an estimate of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with The Home Farm, before allowing for this additional storage. Estimation and reporting of farm emissions are evolving areas.

Year to 31st March 2010 2009 2008 2007 The Home Farm CO2e (Tonnes)

CO2e emissions (and storage) in tonnes CO2e emissions tonnes tonnes tonnes tonnes by key sources/sink. Energy use 309 335 324 310 3,000 Livestock and manure 1,808 2,043 2,083 1,941

2,500 Crops and other sources 76 148 164 220

2,000 CO2 capture in woodland (149) (149) (149) (149)

Total CO2e emissions 2,044 2,377 2,422 2,322 1,500

1,000 Energy MWh MWh MWh MWh Energy use 1,053 1,100 1,078 994 500

0 Other natural resources m3 m3 m3 m3

-500 Water use, 000s litres 13,873 15,936 15,692 19,570 2007 2008 2009 2010 Figures for 2007 to 2009 have been restated to align accounting policies, to correct conversion factors used for Energy use diesel and electricity and to apply updated estimates of energy use. Livestock and manure Crops and other sources A significant proportion of energy use is diesel used by tractors in ploughing and this will CO2 capture in woodland vary each year according to the impact of the weather (wet or dry soils) and according to the different stages of the crop rotation. A “min till” plough was put into use this year and is expected to reduce diesel use by reducing the amount of soil turned during ploughing. Energy-efficient heat exchangers and solar thermal heating helps reduce electricity use in the dairy.

At The Home Farm, emissions have fallen due to fluctuations in the size of the dairy herd and in lime applications to the fields. The promotion of biodiversity is a key part of organic farming. Hedgerows and grass margins provide a habitat for natural predators that help control pests and act as a refuge for wildlife. Artificial pesticides, which can impact on wildlife as well as pests, are not used.

53 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 appendix portfolios of the senior management

Sir Michael Peat Leslie Ferrar Principal Private Secretary Treasurer, assisted by Clara Pearce, Assistant Treasurer and Financial – Overall responsibility for the Household and Office Controller, Polly McGivern, Assistant Treasurer (Legal and Commercial), Mimi Watts, Head of Personnel and Administration, and David Hutson, – Constitutional, State and ceremonial matters Assistant Treasurer and Records Manager – The Church (including the Roman Catholic Church) – Overall responsibility for all financial, accountancy – Chairman of The Prince’s Charities Foundation and investment matters – The Duchy of Cornwall – Personnel – Duchy Originals Limited – Information technology – The Private Estates – Inventory – The Prince’s International Sustainability Unit – Archives and records management – Chairman of The Great Steward of Scotland’s – Publishing, commercial, contractual and legal matters Dumfries House Trust – A. G. Carrick Limited – Director of Duchy Originals and Traditional Arts Ltd – Overall financial supervision of The Prince’s Charities, Mark Leishman Private Secretary with the Director, The Prince’s Charities – Management of the Private Office – US Charitable Foundation – Programme policy and supervision of engagements – The Home Farm – Scotland – Health Paddy Harverson – Education Communications Secretary, assisted by Patrick Harrison, Press Secretary – All media matters for The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry and the Wing Commander Richard Pattle Master of the Household Duchy of Cornwall – Overall supervision of the programme and logistics – The Equerry’s Office Clive Alderton – Overall supervision of receptions and entertaining Private Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – Personal and domestic staff – Foreign and Commonwealth affairs, including – All residences and gardens overseas tours – Security and confidentiality – International development – Social responsibility – Minority, ethnic and faith communities – The Police – The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts – The Prince’s Youth Business International – The British Asian Trust – Turquoise Mountain Foundation, Afghanistan

Manon Williams Private Secretary for Wales – Wales, including The Prince of Wales’s Welsh organizations – The built environment, including The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment – Heritage, including The Prince’s Regeneration Trust – The Prince’s Drawing School – The Arts, including Arts & Business and The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts – PRIME-Cymru

54 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 Benet Northcote Major Will Mackinlay Deputy Private Secretary Equerry – Responsible business, including Business in the – The Armed Forces and Veterans Community, The Prince’s Business and the Environment – Programme, diary, travel and logistics Programme, In Kind Direct and the UK Corporate Leaders – Investitures Group on Climate Change – The Emergency Services – Agriculture and rural affairs – Sport, explorers and adventurers – The natural environment and fishing

Virginia Carington Amanda MacManus Assistant Master of the Household Assistant Private Secretary (part-time) – The Royal Collection – Organization and co-ordination of The Duchess of – Personal letters and private engagements Cornwall’s engagements, charitable work and diary

Joy Camm the Household of Prince William Assistant Private Secretary (part-time) and Prince Harry – Organization and co-ordination of The Duchess of Cornwall’s engagements, charitable work and diary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton Private Secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry Sophie Densham – Advising the Princes on their careers, charitable Assistant Private Secretary patronages and other matters, and organizing – Organization and co-ordination of The Duchess of official engagements Cornwall’s engagements, charitable work and diary

Jonathan Hellewell the prince’s charities Assistant Private Secretary – The Prince’s Trust – Northern Ireland Sir Tom Shebbeare Director, The Prince’s Charities – The elderly, including PRIME – Strategy for, and overall co-ordination of, The Prince’s – Correspondence Department, managed by Charities, including, in particular, fund-raising Claudia Holloway, Head of Correspondence and governance – Managing Director of The Prince’s Charities Foundation Sarah Kennedy-Good Assistant Private Secretary – The Commonwealth Justin Mundy Director, The Prince’s International Sustainability Unit – Minority, ethnic and faith communities – Sustainability programmes and projects, including The Prince’s Rainforests Project and The Prince’s Accounting Chantelle Naidoo for Sustainability Project Assistant Private Secretary – Oversight and coordination for the international work of – The Commonwealth The Prince’s Charities, including those operating in China, – Minority, ethnic and faith communities India, Romania and Afghanistan

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The Prince’s Charities is a group of not-for- The built environment profit organizations of which The Prince of The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment Wales is President: 18 of the 20 charities www.princes-foundation.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7613 8500 were founded personally by The Prince. The Prince’s Regeneration Trust www.princes-regeneration.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7462 6440 Turquoise Mountain The group is the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise www.turquoisemountain.org Tel: +44 (0) 1764 650 888 in the United Kingdom, raising over £100 million annually. The Great Steward of Scotland’s Dumfries House Trust The organizations are active across a broad range of areas www.dumfries-house.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1290 425959 including opportunity and enterprise, the built environment, responsible business, education and health. Additionally, Responsible Business six social enterprises make a significant contribution by donating all their profits to charity. Business in the Community www.bitc.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7566 8650 The charities reflect The Prince of Wales’s long-term The University of Cambridge Programme for and innovative perspective and seek to address areas Sustainability Leadership of previously unmet need. www.cpsl.cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1223 768850 Scottish Business in the Community To find out more visit: http://princescharities.org www.sbcscot.com Tel: +44 (0) 131 451 1100 In Kind Direct www.inkinddirect.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 5510 Opportunity and Enterprise Arts & Business www.aandb.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7378 8143 The Prince’s Trust www.princes-trust.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7543 1234 Health Freephone: 0800 842 842 The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health www.psybt.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 141 248 4999 www.fih.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7766 0002 The Prince’s Youth Business International Email: [email protected] www.youthbusiness.org Tel: +44 (0) 3326 2060 (To be closed in July 2010) PRIME www.primeinitiative.org.uk Social Enterprise www.primebusinessclub.com Duchy Originals Tel: +44 (0) 20 8765 7833 www.duchyoriginals.com PRIME-Cymru North Highland Initiative www.prime-cymru.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1550 721 813 www.mey-selections.com (for product) The British Asian Trust www.northhighlandsscotland.com (for tourism) www.britishasiantrust.org Highgrove Enterprises Tel: +44 (0) 20 7024 5646 or +44 (0) 20 7024 5739 www.highgroveshop.com Tel: +44 (0) 845 521 4331 Traditional Arts Ltd Education www.traditionalarts.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7033 4950 The Prince’s Drawing School Turquoise Mountain Arts www.princesdrawingschool.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7613 8568 www.turquoisemountainarts.af Tel: +93 (0) 797 968 218 The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts Email: [email protected] www.psta.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7613 8532 The Prince’s Teaching Institute www.princes-ti.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 3174 3106 The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts www.childrenandarts.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 3326 2230

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