The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall Annual Review 2009 ANNUAL REVIEW 2009

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall Annual Review 2009 ANNUAL REVIEW 2009

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 2009.

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 Prince’s website carries details of all ofﬁcial engagements, and of speeches, articles and a wide range of biographical and factual information.

FRONT COVER In March 2009 The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visit the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, known as the Neasden Temple, in London. CONTENTS

10 | 13 SPECIAL FEATURES 10 | 11 The Prince’s Charities’ Initiative in Burnley 12 | 13 The Prince’s Rainforests Project

PAGE 20 CHARITABLE ENTREPRENEUR 14 | 19 SUPPORTING THE QUEEN 16 | 17 The United Kingdom and overseas 18 | 19 The Armed Services

20 | 33 CHARITABLE ENTREPRENEUR 22 | 23 £130 million for charity 24 | 25 Opportunity and enterprise 26 | 27 Responsible business

PAGE 34 PROMOTING AND PROTECTING 28 | 29 The built environment 30 | 31 Education 32 Health 33 Social enterprise

34 | 37 PROMOTING AND PROTECTING 36 | 37 Raising issues

38 | 41 PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY PAGE 38 PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY

58 | 60 APPENDIX 58 | 59 Portfolios of the Senior Management 60 The Prince’s Charities

01 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 SUMMARY

This Annual Review covers the year to 31st March 2009. In addition to this introduction and a selection of events from the year, it has six main sections: one devoted to special features highlighting the work of The Prince of Wales’s initiatives and charities; three explaining each of the principal elements of His Royal Highness’s role; one introducing the new Household of Prince William and Prince Harry; and a sixth 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 and The Duchess 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 emphasising 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 created six social enterprises, the proﬁts of which are donated to charity.

Promoting and protecting national traditions, virtues and excellence ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM This includes supporting Britain’s rural communities, promoting tolerance The Prince of Wales at Copehill and greater understanding between faiths and communities, and highlighting Down urban operations training village with the 3rd Battalion, The achievements or issues that, without his support, might otherwise receive Mercian Regiment (Staffords) in little exposure. In this regard, His Royal Highness often acts as a catalyst for November 2008. facilitating debate and change through contacts with Government Ministers

The Duchess of Cornwall meets and other people of inﬂuence, and by giving speeches and writing articles. well-wishers as she attends The In doing so, he is always careful to remain separate from party political National Veterans’ Day in Blackpool debate. He communicates with Ministers as a member of the Privy Council in June 2008. and reports 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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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

Year to 31st March 2009 2008 £000s £000s Income from Duchy of Cornwall 16,458 16,273 Funding from Grants-In-Aid and Government Departments 3,033 2,454 Total income and funding 19,491 18,727 Ofﬁcial expenditure 12,513 10,451

For historical financial Surplus after official costs 6,978 8,276 data please visit: Taxation 3,093 3,429 Non-official expenditure 1,710 2,217 www.princeofwales.gov.uk/ Capital expenditure (less depreciation), mediacentre/annualreview loan repayments and transfers to reserves 2,018 2,436 Net cash surplus 157 194

SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNT

Year to 31st March 2009 2008 tonnes tonnes

CO2 equivalent emissions Household 2,601 2,795 Home Farm 2,341 2,378

Prince William and Prince William and Prince Harry also conduct public engagements and support Prince Harry also conduct charities and other organizations, although the main way in which they currently serve the nation is as members of the Armed Services. The growing role public engagements and public prominence of the two Princes was underlined last year with and support charities the establishment of their own Household based at St James’s Palace. and other organizations. Summary The way The Prince of Wales fulﬁls his public duties is largely constant and in 2008-09 the key themes were unchanged from the previous year. They were the environment and climate change, the built environment (particularly in planning more sustainable communities and promoting regeneration of deprived areas), Their Royal Highnesses’ support for the Armed Forces, and their work for the British Government on overseas visits.

The Prince has been drawing attention to the ever more challenging problems of climate change for many years, and in 2008-09 his Rainforests Project continued to help to ﬁnd a solution to tropical deforestation, a major contributor to carbon emissions and global warming. An important milestone for the Project was the historic meeting on 1st April 2009 at St James’s Palace chaired by The Prince at which world leaders and senior ofﬁcials from international institutions agreed to set up an International Working Group to address the problem (more details of the Project’s work are on pages 12 and 13).

With British Forces operating around the world, in particular in Iraq and Afghanistan, Their Royal Highnesses and Prince William and Prince Harry continue to highlight the work and sacriﬁce of servicemen and women and their families.

The past year has been especially busy in terms of overseas visits on behalf of the British Government, with ofﬁcial tours to Japan, Brunei and Indonesia in October 2008, and Chile, Brazil and Ecuador in March 2009.

03 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 ENGAGEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

In 2008-09, The Prince of Wales undertook a total of 658 ofﬁcial engagements, of which 83 were overseas, and The Duchess of Cornwall undertook 225 engagements, of which 56 were overseas. The following engagements and activities illustrate the range of Their Royal Highnesses’ work during the year.

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force In April 2008, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force. The occasion also saw His Royal Highness present RAF pilot’s wings to his eldest son, Prince William, on his completion of an intensive 12-week ﬂying course at the base.

Visiting Northern Ireland to meet servicemen and women returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan In May 2008, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited 2 Mercian Regiment at Palace Barracks, near Belfast, during a two-day trip to Northern Ireland. The Prince is Colonel-in-Chief of the Mercian Regiment, and during the visit Their Royal Highnesses met servicemen and women ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM who had just returned from Afghanistan, where nine members of the Prince William receiving his Battalion had been killed in action. RAF pilot’s wings from his father, The Prince of Wales, at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire in Prince Harry receives his Afghanistan medal from April 2008. The Princess Royal

The Prince of Wales gets off In May 2008, Prince Harry received a campaign medal for his military service a train at Ebbw Vale Station in Afghanistan from his aunt, The Princess Royal, Colonel of The Blues and in October 2008. Royals, at Combermere Barracks in Windsor, and in the presence of his father.

The opening of Dumfries House to the public In June 2008, The Prince of Wales opened Dumfries House to the public for the ﬁrst time in 250 years and said he hoped its acquisition and opening to the public would help to regenerate a particularly deprived part of East Ayrshire. The Georgian house and its unique collection of Chippendale and other furniture were saved from sale in 2007 after a group headed by The Prince bought them for the Nation.

The Prince of Wales attends a service celebrating 60 years of the NHS In July 2008, The Prince of Wales joined hundreds of former and serving staff at a service of celebration to mark 60 years of the National Health Service (NHS) at Westminster Abbey.

Visiting Gwent and Monmouthshire In October 2008, The Prince of Wales joined commuters on a train service established to help regenerate a community in Wales during a visit to Gwent and Monmouthshire. The Prince caught the link between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff, which was reopened following substantial public investment to help the people of Blaenau Gwent and beyond ﬁnd work.

Prince William celebrates Centrepoint’s 40th anniversary In November 2008, Prince William helped youth homelessness charity, Centrepoint, launch its 40th anniversary year with a dinner at St James’s

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Palace. In his capacity as Patron, Prince William praised Centrepoint as representing to homeless young people “the difference between misery and dejection and a sense of hope and renewed self-conﬁdence.”

Visiting two of The Prince’s Charities on His Royal Highness’s 60th birthday In November 2008, on His Royal Highness’s 60th birthday, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited projects run by two of The Prince’s Charities. Their Royal Highnesses travelled to Beckton Community Centre in East London to meet young people helped by The Prince’s Trust, and afterwards visited the Royal Opera House to meet children helped by The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts.

The Prince of Wales returns to a steelworks in Sheffield damaged by flooding In November 2008, The Prince of Wales returned to one of the country’s biggest steelworks in Sheffield to see how the company had recovered from the devastating floods the year before. After the floods, The Prince had helped the company, through his Business in the Community charity, with an insurance claim that enabled Forgemasters to survive the temporary crisis.

The Duchess of Cornwall becomes President of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM In November 2008, The Duchess of Cornwall visited the ﬁrst Maggie’s The Duchess of Cornwall presents centre in London as their new President. Maggie’s London, at Charing the inaugural Duchess of Cornwall Award to Professor Cyrus Cooper Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, is one of six centres across the country during a visit to the National which aim to keep the minds and bodies of cancer patients as healthy Osteoporosis Society Headquarters as possible by helping them participate actively in their treatment. in Bath in February 2009.

The Prince of Wales and The The Duchess of Cornwall presents the inaugural Duchess of Cornwall look at the Duchess of Cornwall Award giant tortoises at the Charles Darwin Foundation in the In February 2009, The Duchess of Cornwall presented the inaugural Galapagos National Park, Duchess of Cornwall Award for work in the ﬁeld of osteoporosis to Professor Ecuador in March 2009. Cyrus Cooper. In a speech Professor Cooper praised Her Royal Highness for the “tremendous work” she had done to raise the proﬁle of the disease.

Unveiling a memorial to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, in London In February 2009, Their Royal Highnesses joined Her Majesty The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh and other Members of the Royal Family at a ceremony on The Mall to unveil a national monument dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, who died aged 101 in 2002. The Prince of Wales oversaw the design of the monument, and in a personal tribute to his “darling grandmother”, he spoke of her “vitality, unbounded courage... and irresistible and irrepressible sense of mischievous humour.”

Visiting the remote Galapagos Islands in Ecuador In March 2009, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and to highlight the work done to conserve the fragile environment of the islands. The visit was part of a 10-day ofﬁcial tour of South America.

05 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 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 farm at Highgrove. This is achieved by reducing energy consumption and by greater use of renewable energy.

In 2008-09 fossil fuel use is estimated to have fallen by 15 per cent, which contributed to a seven per cent reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions. This took the total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the past two years to 24 per cent, just short of the target the Household has set itself to cut emissions by 25 per cent by 2012.

As well as reducing his Household’s carbon footprint, The Prince has continued to help address the challenge of climate change through the work of his various environmental initiatives and projects, often in partnership with governments, the private sector and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Among them are The Prince’s Rainforests Project, which aims to ABOVE reduce carbon emissions from tropical deforestation (and secure a range Clarence House and Highgrove, of other beneﬁts) by curbing rainforest destruction, several sector-based where a number of energy-saving measures have been introduced. initiatives such as the “ClimateWise” group of leading insurance companies, the “P8” group of leading pension funds and the Legal Sector Alliance, and The Prince’s May Day Network of over 1,100 UK businesses committed to taking action on climate change.

Further information about some of the projects are given elsewhere in this Review, and the Sustainability Account on pages 54 to 57 provides more detail about the Household’s own sustainability performance.

Among the factors behind the reduction in the Household’s emissions last year were greater use of biodiesel, made from used cooking oil, in the Royal Train and The Prince’s cars, the installation of energy-efficient boilers at Clarence House, which significantly reduced gas consumption despite the colder winter, and the use of woodchip boilers at Highgrove, Birkhall and Llwynywermod, which replace fossil fuel with sustainably- managed wood. In addition, the Household further increased the proportion of its electricity derived from renewable or sustainable sources, and benefitted from the use of electricity monitoring devices in office areas to help identify further opportunities for efficiency savings.

These initiatives were all in areas that the Household controls directly. In contrast, ofﬁcial overseas travel undertaken at the request of the Government is not under the Household’s direct control. These international tours represent the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions each year, and in 2008-09 accounted for almost 50 per cent of the total. This is a larger ﬁgure than for previous years due to two long-haul tours: in October and November 2008 to Japan, Brunei and Indonesia, and in March 2009 to Chile, Brazil and Ecuador.

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However, the increase in emissions from overseas travel on behalf of the Government was more than offset by a reduction in emissions from energy use and other travel. As a matter of policy, all Household carbon emissions are offset.

The emissions at the Home Farm at Highgrove continue to be monitored and analysed separately with a view to achieving long-term reductions. Run as an organic farm since 1985, Home Farm aims to promote sustainable farming practices, and in 2008-09 the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the farm were 2,341 tonnes (see page 57 for further details).

With respect to The Prince’s more general work to address the challenges of climate change, in December 2008, as part of The Prince’s Corporate Further details of the Leaders Group on Climate Change, business leaders of over 140 global Household’s environmental companies issued the “Poznan Communiqué” to world leaders setting out what they believed should be the key elements of an international deal on impacts are given on pages climate change. 54 to 57. The Prince, through his May Day Network, also continues to engage the broader business community in the UK by encouraging ﬁrms to measure and reduce their carbon footprints. The second May Day Summit, held on 1st May 2008, brought together over 1,600 business leaders at 13 events across the country to discuss progress made since the ﬁrst event in 2007 and to share solutions to climate change. The Prince’s Charities have all joined the May Day Network.

The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project established the Accounting for Sustainability Forum in 2008 which brings together for the first time the finance and accounting community within business, Government, and professional practice and academia from around the world to address sustainability issues. The Forum held its first meeting at St James’s Palace in December, inviting over 200 leaders to identify ways to integrate sustainability into decision-making, accounting and reporting processes more effectively.

The Connected Reporting Framework, one of the tools developed by The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, has been adopted by the Household and a number of other organizations, and is being considered by HM Treasury for use by the public sector in the UK. A case study booklet on the Framework has been published which highlights how it can beneﬁt both sustainability and ﬁnancial performance.

Finally, since its launch in October 2007, The Prince’s Rainforests Project has worked with environmental and economic experts and convened leaders from governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations and indigenous peoples to ﬁnd practical solutions to halt tropical deforestation. A more detailed explanation of the Project’s work is on pages 12 and 13.

07 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 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, including over 27,000 hectares on Dartmoor. 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 capital assets, which are retained in the Duchy to provide income for future beneﬁciaries. The Duchy is not subject to corporation tax as it is not a company (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.

The landed estate is primarily made up of agricultural, commercial and residential property. The Duchy also has a portfolio of ﬁnancial investments. Its long-term property investment strategy is to own, manage and, wherever 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 one per cent to ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM £16.5 million. In the current economic climate these results are encouraging The Prince of Wales during a visit to and show the strength and quality of the Duchy’s diversified property Poundbury where he opened the new Dorset Fire and Rescue HQ in portfolio and the value of its long-term management objectives. In the capital March 2009. account, residential and commercial values have reduced, but agricultural values have held up well. Generally fluctuations in property values are less A new home being built in Poundbury, the urban extension volatile than have been reported for the market generally. to Dorchester. One of the Duchy’s biggest projects is Poundbury, the development on Duchy land of an urban extension to Dorchester in Dorset. Despite the economic climate, construction work continues including a group of sustainable homes and offices with a biomass district heating system, a development of flats above offices on the south side of Queen Mother Square and a number of developments on the north side of the Bridport Road.

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Other highlights at Poundbury during the year included the opening of the new headquarters for Dorset Fire & Rescue Service employing around 120 people, a visit to the nearby Thomas Hardye School and the relocation of Weymouth College’s Centre of Vocational Excellence in Stonemasonry Skills to the new B2 craft centre South of Middle Farm Way.

Last year saw Their Royal Highnesses’ ﬁrst stay at Llwynywermod in Wales, the three-bedroom cottage and farm purchased by the Duchy in 2007 and carefully renovated using local Welsh materials and craftsmen. During their stay, The Prince and The Duchess held a series of meetings and dinners at the house, and a reception for local residents and people who had worked on the property.

The renovated holiday cottages that adjoin Llwynywermod became available for short-term let in February 2009. As with all Duchy properties sustainability was of paramount importance in the renovation. Sheep’s wool insulation, hemp plaster, natural materials and paints were all used. Heating and hot water are supplied from a woodchip boiler.

Another signiﬁcant development for the Duchy last year was the approval in January 2009 by Restormel Borough Council of three outline planning applications at Newquay in Cornwall. The proposed developments will create 700 new homes and support almost 600 jobs. All three mixed-use projects ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM have been designed in accordance with the Duchy’s comprehensive The Prince of Wales and The sustainability strategy, and aim to set new standards for sustainable Duchess of Cornwall visit the Thomas Hardye School in development in Cornwall. With outline consent now granted the Duchy Dorchester, near Poundbury, will spend the next nine to 12 months working up detailed plans, including in Dorset in December 2008. further public consultation.

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall exit the The past year has seen considerable capital investment by the Duchy in private residence section of their the village of Princetown on Dartmoor. Key projects have included the new property in Llwynywermod, near Llandovery in June 2008. building of the Duchy Square Arts and Crafts Centre in conjunction with Devon County Council, and further contributions towards the building of a new village centre.

The Duchy has also continued its active involvement with Dartmoor’s agricultural community. As part of The Prince’s Farmers’ Marketing Initiative, the Dartmoor Farmers’ Association has now been established to market locally produced beef and lamb directly to the end user.

The Duchy remains committed to promoting sustainability, and while it has no direct control over the emissions from its over 1,000 residential properties and 100 rural workshops, it has a shared responsibility with tenants for addressing the environmental impact of these buildings. With this in mind, the Duchy continues to develop a number of initiatives to reduce emissions, including biomass boilers, such as those installed at Llwynywermod in Wales, Harewood End in Hertfordshire and Restormel Manor in Cornwall, ground and air source heat pumps and insulation – over 150 properties on the Isles of Scilly had their roof insulation enhanced during 2008-09.

09 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 THE PRINCE’S CHARITIES’ INITIATIVE IN BURNLEY

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In 1985 The Prince of Wales developed a One Town partnership in Halifax, West Yorkshire when His Royal Highness brought together the local authority and businesses to establish a regeneration programme to increase employment opportunities and improve the built environment after a large carpet factory had closed.

Twenty years later, following a visit to Burnley in 2005 to see the work of two of his organizations, he felt that a similar initiative could again prove to be valuable, so he asked 10 of his charities – Business in the Community (BITC), The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, The Prince’s Trust, The Prince’s Regeneration Trust, The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, The Foundation for Integrated Health, In Kind Direct, The Prince’s What has been particularly Foundation for Children and the Arts, Arts and Business and The British interesting is the range of Asian Trust – to work together with Burnley Council and other key partners to help provide greater opportunities for young people, support to the innovative work that has schools and community organizations, as well as expertise in revitalizing come from the charities run-down parts of the town. working so closely together Following a major initiative supported by the North West Regional – and bringing distinctive Development Agency, the partnership took a big step forward in 2008 when ﬁve members of staff from the charities moved into ofﬁces in the expertise to the place. town to join the Multi Agency Problem Solving Team, the key group of local agencies working on a range of borough-wide projects aimed at tackling crime, anti-social behaviour and other community issues.

What has been particularly interesting is the range of innovative work that has come from the charities working so closely together – and bringing distinctive expertise to the place. BITC has brought business leaders on the Seeing is Believing programme, resulting in career development programmes in schools and master classes for local entrepreneurs. The Prince’s Trust is running a series of Team Programmes to help young people get into work, training or education, while The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts has been teaching primary and secondary schoolchildren from different cultural backgrounds how the patterns of Nature are reﬂected in traditional art and design, and in the process encouraging a greater understanding of their shared heritage. LEFT The Prince of Wales gives a speech Working with the town to withstand the recession, BITC has established a after opening a Business in the Community workshop at Lancashire groundbreaking Burnley Banking Consortium, a group of high street bank Digital Technology Centre, Burnley. executives, business leaders and the Leader of the Council working together to ensure local businesses have access to loans at competitive rates to keep Picture supplied by The Burnley Express. them operating through difﬁcult trading conditions.

The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment and The Prince’s Regeneration Trust are working closely with Burnley Borough Council and Bryan Gray – the Chairman of the RDA – on the future of the Weaver’s Triangle and the overall master plan for the town’s regeneration.

11 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 THE PRINCE’S RAINFORESTS PROJECT

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The Prince of Wales, along with many environmental experts and scientists, believes that if the battle against climate change is to be won, slowing the rate of tropical deforestation is essential.

The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) has been working for nearly two years to encourage consensus among governments, non-governmental organizations and private sector representatives as to how the rate of “Climate change is the tropical deforestation can be slowed. Destruction of the world’s rainforests greatest threat facing has a substantial impact on climate change – contributing more emissions than the entire global transport sector. The forests also sustain biodiversity, mankind. Every year regulate and provide rainfall, provide other vital eco-system services, and destruction of the Earth’s sustain livelihoods for more than one billion of the world’s poorest people. rainforests releases more During the past year, the Project has been focused on understanding the carbon dioxide into the economic reasons for deforestation to find an equitable way to encourage rainforest nations to protect, rather than destroy, their forests; to make the atmosphere than all the trees worth more alive than dead and to identify ways to fund this approach. world’s cars, planes and ships In March 2009, the PRP prepared a report on its findings and conclusions put together. We must act (available on the website www.rainforestSOS.org). The report identifies the now. Future generations are need for an interim financing mechanism to support immediate action to curb deforestation – an “Emergency Package for Tropical Forests”. The depending on us.” aim is to generate substantial funding quickly through a public-private partnership in developed countries so that rainforest nations can embark

The Prince of Wales speaking on alternative low-carbon economic development paths. in the ﬁlm to launch an online global public awareness On 1st April 2009, The Prince of Wales hosted an historic meeting of campaign, May 2009. world leaders to discuss this issue. The participants agreed to form an International Working Group to study the proposal, along with others, before making recommendations for a co-ordinated, global plan of action ahead of the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhagen in December.

Throughout the remainder of 2009, the PRP will continue to work with governments and a wide range of businesses and other organizations, to refine these ideas and to support the activities of the Working Group. ABOVE The Prince of Wales hosts To help foster a climate of public opinion in support of the emergency action an historic meeting of world leaders to discuss how to required, on 5th May 2009 the PRP launched a global public awareness address deforestation. programme that aims to build an online community to create global determination for change on this vitally important issue. The focal point is a LEFT The Prince of Wales and the 90-second film about the need to end deforestation. The film features The PRP’s computer-generated Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry, and an array of well-known frog raise awareness of the figures including Harrison Ford, the Dalai Lama and Daniel Craig. Each need for emergency action to save rainforests. individual appears alongside a computer-generated frog which serves as a symbol of the rainforests.

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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 talks to soldiers during a visit to Kent, where he met soldiers and families of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Riﬂes stationed at Sir John Moore Barracks in Folkestone in January 2009.

15 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

During the year The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall undertook a wide variety of engagements and visits, both at home and overseas. 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 England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In May 2008, The Prince of Wales helped celebrate the 60th anniversary of Land Rover, one of the country’s best-known international brands and a major employer in the UK.

During a visit to the company’s plant in Solihull, West Midlands, The Prince told 100 workers on the assembly line at the plant that they should be proud that their product was seen all across the globe. Recalling how he had recently travelled in a Land Rover in Uganda, The Prince said: “Your success is seen everywhere.”

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 and The Duchess have visited areas of the country that have been hit especially hard by the recession, as well as those areas regularly affected by serious ﬂooding.

Last year, Their Royal Highnesses went back to several communities to see how they were recovering. In June 2008, they travelled by steam along a heritage railway line in Worcestershire that required £3 million in repairs after being badly damaged by floods, and in November 2008, The Prince returned to one of the country’s biggest steelworks in Sheffield to see how ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM the company had bounced back from a year earlier when the plant had The Prince of Wales talks with been left under five feet of water. During the visit His Royal Highness told workers during a visit to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Land Rover staff: “I came back really because I know how important Forgemasters is at the company’s factory, in Lode not only to the local economy but also to the national economy, to the Lane, Solihull in May 2008. national effort.”

The Prince of Wales meets some of the 71 apprentices employed In recognition of his special relationship with Wales, His Royal Highness on site during his visit to Sheffield pays regular visits. In June, The Prince and The Duchess were in Wales for Forgemasters International in Sheffield in November 2008. their annual Summer visit, when, for the first time, they were able to stay at Llwynywermod, the Welsh farmhouse which was purchased by The Duchy The Duchess of Cornwall talks to of Cornwall in March 2007 to give The Prince and The Duchess a base in staff and visitors at a Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Charing Wales. On one of the evenings, Their Royal Highnesses invited local residents Cross Hospital, London, in and craftsmen who had worked on the property to an evening reception. November 2008. Also during Wales Week, Their Royal Highnesses officially inaugurated the new cloisters of St David’s Cathedral before travelling to Llangathen to officially open the new office of the Welsh Historic Garden Trust at Aberglasney Gardens. In mid-Wales, The Duchess met members of the Mydffai Women’s Institute, and later joined The Prince at a reception to launch the Cambrian Mountain Initiative, a project he set up to help local farmers market their goods under a single brand.

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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. Among their many Scottish engagements last year were visits to support local businesses such as Johnstons of Elgin and Speyside Cooperage. They also enjoyed a busy Holyrood Week that saw Her Royal Highness make her ﬁrst visit to Rothesay as Duchess of Rothesay and The Prince and The Duchess host a reception at Holyroodhouse for supporters of the Edinburgh Festival.

In June 2008, The Prince opened a pioneering £4.6 million unit at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital devoted to improving treatments for women with the most common type of breast cancer, while The Duchess visited the same hospital’s Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre, a place where anyone affected by cancer, including families, friends and carers, can get support. Last year, Her Royal Highness accepted the invitation to become the ﬁrst President of Maggie’s, the cancer care charity.

Every year The Prince and The Duchess tour Northern Ireland for several days of engagements. In May 2008, during a two-day trip, The Prince and The Duchess attended an event at one of Belfast’s top restaurants to celebrate and promote local produce, and a day later visited the Old Bushmills whiskey distillery in Antrim to help the company celebrate four centuries of making whiskey.

Overseas Every year Their Royal Highnesses’ duties take them abroad, and in 2008-09 they undertook two main ofﬁcial tours at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Ofﬁce to support Britain’s overseas interests.

The Autumn Tour of 2008 saw The Prince and The Duchess travel ﬁrst to Japan for three days, a visit that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the UK. Their Royal Highnesses then travelled to Brunei where they met Gurkha troops ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM stationed at the British Garrison in Seria, before the third leg of the tour The Prince of Wales is greeted as took The Prince to Indonesia, where he delivered the Presidential Lecture he arrives at the Pondok Pesantren Krapyak Islamic School, during a in Jakarta on the subject of tackling tropical deforestation, before travelling visit to Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s to Harapan Forest on the island of Sumatra to visit and encourage a ancient former royal capital in conservation project. November 2008.

The Prince of Wales and The second main tour of the year was to South America in March 2009. The Duchess of Cornwall at Once again, environmental protection was a key theme in each of the three The Todaiji Temple, in Nara, Japan in November 2008. countries. In Chile, Their Royal Highnesses supported government efforts to promote energy efﬁciency and private sector initiatives to develop new The Prince of Wales walks through sustainable fuel sources. In Brazil, they visited the Amazon and met local a part of the Amazon Rainforest, outside the central Brazilian town of governors and community representatives to hear about the challenges of Manaus, in March 2009. developing more sustainable forms of economic activity in the rainforests. In Ecuador, the highlight was a two-day visit to the Galapagos Islands to experience their remarkable biodiversity and to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species”.

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall also visited Poland in April 2008 to formally open the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow, for which The Prince had spent six years helping to raise funds following a 2002 visit. In November, Their Royal Highnesses visited France for a ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice.

17 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 THE ARMED SERVICES

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 wife The Prince of Wales currently holds the ranks of Admiral in the Royal Navy, General in the Army and Air Chief and sons. The Duchess of Cornwall is the Royal Colonel of the 4th Battalion Marshal in the Royal Air Force, and maintains a special The Riﬂes, and Commodore-in-Chief of Royal Naval Medical Services, while relationship with the following: his sons are both serving in the military and currently training to be helicopter

The Queen’s Dragoon Guards pilots – Prince William with the Royal Air Force’s Search and Rescue Force, The Royal Dragoon Guards and Prince Harry with the Army Air Corps. The Welsh Guards The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion With the Forces deployed on active operations not just in Iraq and Afghanistan The Royal Regiment of Scotland but in many different theatres around the world, Their Royal Highnesses have The Mercian Regiment been busier than ever in supporting servicemen and women, and their The Parachute Regiment families. In 2008-09, they attended 66 engagements jointly or separately, The Royal Gurkha Riﬂes including 11 medal presentations. The Army Air Corps The Queen’s Own Yeomanry One of the undoubted highlights of the year were the celebrations of the 51st Highland, 7th Battalion RAF’s 90th anniversary in April 2008 at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. Before The Royal Regiment of Scotland attending a gala dinner The Prince and The Duchess witnessed a ﬂy-past

The Prince is also Honorary Air Commodore of Royal Air featuring a Spitfire and four Typhoon jets and watched as the RAF Colours Force Valley, Commodore-in-Chief of the Royal Naval were lowered during a Sunset Ceremony. At the dinner His Royal Highness Command, Plymouth. He maintains a special relationship praised “the professionalism, commitment and bravery” of the men and with 10 Commonwealth units as their Colonel-in-Chief: Air Reserve of Canada, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal women of the Royal Air Force. The next day, The Prince presented his son, Canadians), Royal Australian Armoured Corps, Royal Prince William, with his RAF pilot’s wings at a graduation ceremony at Cranwell. New Zealand Air Force (Air Commodore), The Royal Regiment of Canada, The Royal Winnipeg Rifles, The Royal Pacific Islands Regiment, The Royal Canadian In September 2008, Their Royal Highnesses attended a ceremony at St Paul’s Dragoons, The Black Watch of Canada, The Toronto Cathedral to commemorate the Armed Forces who served in Northern Ireland Scottish Regiment. during the UK’s 38-year military campaign to maintain security there. The

THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL’S deployment known as Operation Banner began in 1969, ended in July 2007 MILITARY ASSOCIATIONS and over its 38-year history saw more than 300,000 military personnel serve The Duchess of Cornwall is Royal Colonel of in the province. During that period more than 1,000 members of the Forces 4th Battalion The Rifles, Sponsor of HMS Astute, Commodore-in-Chief of Royal Naval Medical died, with 6,116 wounded. Services and Royal Naval Chaplaincy Services, and Royal Honorary Air Commodore of Royal Air In November 2008, The Prince travelled to Copehill Down in Wiltshire to watch Force Halton and Royal Air Force Leeming. 3rd Battalion, the Mercian Regiment train in a specially-built village in the heart of the English countryside. In his role as Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment he was given a tour of the 70 houses, shops and schools which the Army uses to simulate urban fighting conditions. During the visit The Prince met Corporal Michael Pickering, 28, and Colour Sergeant Gary Pemberton, 34, who were both suffering from injuries sustained during the fighting in Basra, Iraq.

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In October 2008, The Duchess of Cornwall visited the Royal Navy’s largest and most powerful submarine, HMS Astute, in her capacity as its Sponsor. During the visit to Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Her Royal Highness was given a private tour of the vessel by Commander Mike Walliker, the commanding ofﬁcer, before meeting members of the submarine’s crew and their families at the BAE shipyard.

Each year The Prince, his wife and sons show their support for troops wounded on operational duty, and in December 2008 His Royal Highness paid one of his regular visits to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham. As well as talking to soldiers receiving treatment, during his visit The Prince also met two of the founders of Troop Aid, a charity which sends toiletries and clothing to soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq who have all been hospitalized.

One of the most high-proﬁle charities supporting injured servicemen is Help for Heroes and in September Their Royal Highnesses joined 52,000 fans at Twickenham stadium to watch an all-star rugby match that helped raise over £1 million for the charity.

In December The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall were guests of honour at the ﬁrst Sun Military Awards dinner at Hampton Court Palace. The Prince came up with the idea of the awards, which pay tribute to the country’s outstanding soldiers, sailors and airmen and the back-up staff and families who support them.

Prince William and Prince Harry were also involved in backing Help for Heroes, and in May 2008 they attended City Salute, a unique event in which representatives from every arm of the Forces paraded through the streets of London outside St Paul’s Cathedral as part of a public tribute to their service and heroism. The event helped to raise money for both Help for Heroes and SSAFA (the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association), funds which will be used to support projects at Headley Court, the tri-service defence medical rehabilitation centre in Epsom, Surrey. ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The Prince of Wales presents Supporting veterans of earlier wars is another part of the Royal Family’s role, an operations medal to Kes Srikanthan, a British soldier and in April 2008 The Prince and The Duchess attended a reception at St who trained Iraqi forces, at James’s Palace to pay tribute to the courage of Sikh soldiers who fought for Clarence House in July 2008. Britain in the Second World War. During the colourful event, which featured

The Prince of Wales and The Sikh drummers and bhangra dancing, Their Royal Highnesses met surviving Duchess of Cornwall met a group veterans of the Sikh Brigade of the British Army. of surviving Sikh Brigade, British Army veterans at St James’s Palace, in April 2008. Forces families play a huge part in supporting the work of servicemen and women, and in January 2009 The Prince paid a visit to relatives of the 2nd The Duchess of Cornwall, who is Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Folkestone, Kent. His Royal Royal Colonel of the 4th Battalion The Rifles, observes a field training Highness, who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Gurkhas, met relatives of soldiers exercise at the Kiwi Barracks, killed in action, was given a briefing on the progress of the Battalion abroad Bulford, Wiltshire, in July 2008. and heard about the role played by the Rear Party in the UK, which acts as the link between deployed soldiers and their families.

During the year, Their Royal Highnesses attended many medal ceremonies, and among regiments which received campaign medals from The Prince and The Duchess were The Parachute Regiment, The Prince of Wales’s Company, Welsh Guards, 3 Regiment, Army Air Corps, the Royal Dragoon Guards, and The Queen’s Own Yeomanry of the Territorial Army.

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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 2008-09 His Royal Highness assisted, directly or indirectly, with raising almost £130 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 speaking at The Prince’s Trust & RBS Celebrate Success Awards 2009 at the Odeon Leicester Square in Central London in March 2009.

21 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 £130 MILLION FOR CHARITY

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 33 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 2008-09, The Prince helped raise, directly or indirectly, almost £130 million to support the work of his 20 core charities. In addition, The Prince has set up six social enterprises, the proﬁts of which are donated to charity.

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 The Prince of Wales has initiated a steady stream of research and development propositions over the past few years, including a report on employment prospects for the over-50s, a strategic assessment of the “in kind giving” market in the UK, and a study into the economic value of traditional urbanism in property developments.

Among the new initiatives last year was the establishment of The Prince’s Charities Council. The new body has the twin objectives of, ﬁrstly, offering strategic advice to ensure the long-term sustainability of the charities and, secondly, creating a wider network to support The Prince’s vision for the charities. ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The Prince of Wales meets Another highlight of 2008-09 was the creation of The Prince’s Charities Robin Williams backstage at the Wimbledon Theatre, London, after Foundation (China), formally established in Hong Kong to help His Royal a charity performance in aid of The Highness’s core charities extend their work to China and share experiences Prince’s Trust, in November 2008. with their Chinese partners.

The Prince of Wales speaks at a Business in the Community event The main aim of this new arm of The Prince’s Charities Foundation is to held at St James’s Palace in support practical ways in which people from the United Kingdom and China London in February 2009. can work together to secure and promote what they judge most valuable about their respective traditions, culture and skills. There are already initiatives under way in areas as diverse as helping to restore what remains of the ancient and threatened Hutongs in Beijing, advising the residents and businesses of Chinatown in London on the redesign and regeneration of the area to make it more authentic, and reviving Chinese classical music by supporting Masters of the Guqin, the oldest string instrument in the world which is recognized as one of the Four Arts of Chinese “high culture” together with calligraphy, painting and chess.

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Details of the 20 charities, In working together through the Foundation, it is hoped that people from along with contact information the UK and China can learn from those values and traditions which have endured over the centuries and help pass them on to future generations. can be found on page 60 The Prince’s meeting in London with President Hu Jintao in April 2009 of this Review and at reafﬁ rmed collaboration between The Prince’s Charities and Chinese Government departments and non-governmental organizations. www.princescharities.org The Prince’s Charities new community website – www.princescharities.org – was another notable development last year. Launched in May 2008, the site provides an up-to-date source of information about the work of The Prince’s Charities, featuring the latest news, events and volunteering opportunities. By the end of its ﬁ rst year in operation more than 2,000 people had registered as ‘Community Members’. For members, the website offers updates on all the news from the charities, regular blogs from key charities staff, exclusive access to charitable events, and the opportunity to enter competitions and win fantastic prizes.

Among the social enterprises established by The Prince of Wales is the North Highland Initiative, one of several regional farmers’ marketing initiatives (FMIs) His Royal Highness has helped to set up in recent years. The aim of the partnerships is to assist small family farms to adapt, innovate and collaborate in order to remain commercially and environmentally sustainable in upland and remote areas. For example, the North Highland Initiative in Scotland and the Cambrian Mountains Initiative in Wales help farmers to add value to their produce via better and targeted marketing strategies. Also, through investment in rural communities, the FMIs support and promote the built and natural environment, and tourism.

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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. One of the highlights last year was the launch in May 2008 of The Prince’s Trust Business Club to mark 25 years of the Business Programme, an initiative of the charity which has helped more than 70,000 young people get started in business.

The Prince launched the club, which is aimed at providing on-going advice and support to businesses which The Trust has helped, at a conference in London. In front of an audience of prominent businessmen and women, and joined by the Chancellor Alistair Darling, The Prince said that the business programme had made a “valuable investment” in the nation’s future.

The new Business Club is open to all of The Trust’s supported businesses after they have completed their three-year loan repayment period. It will allow Prince’s Trust alumni to receive continued advice and support, and His Royal Highness said he hoped it would allow those who have beneﬁtted from the programme to come back and help others in the future. ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The Prince of Wales meets Last year the charity’s arm in Wales revived a similar project to help young members of The Prince’s Trust ‘Team’ programme during a visit Welsh entrepreneurs, and in October 2008 His Royal Highness attended to Charing Cross Police Station, the relaunch in Gwent of The Prince’s Trust Cymru’s Business Programme. London, in April 2008. The programme, originally established in 1985, aims to help more than 400

The Prince of Wales and The businesses in Wales set up over the next three years, and it is estimated it Duchess of Cornwall meet could generate as much as £4 million for the Welsh economy if the target youngsters at a Prince’s Trust is reached. Addressing a crowd at the restored Llanhilleth Miners’ Institute project at Beckton Community Centre in East London in which included many young entrepreneurs, The Prince said: “I believe that November 2008. all young people should be given a chance to succeed in life whatever the obstacles they face.”

On the day that The Prince celebrated his 60th birthday in November 2008, Their Royal Highnesses paid a visit to Beckton Community Centre in East London, during which His Royal Highness launched The Prince’s Trust’s ﬁrst-ever Youth Week, a seven-day campaign to highlight the good that young people can offer society.

As part of the campaign, 50 MPs across the UK were shadowed during their constituency visits by young volunteers who have had their lives turned around by The Prince’s Trust.

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Among those The Prince met at the 25th anniversary of The Prince’s Trust Business Programme was Gina Moffatt, 30, who has established a successful ﬂoristry business, Blooming Scent, in North London.

A year before the event Ms Moffatt had been serving a six-year sentence in Holloway prison for drug offences. During her time in prison, she took a ﬂoristry course and convinced the prison Governor to allow her to set up her own business.

After her release in January last year, she secured a £4,000 loan from The Prince’s Trust and was able to open her own shop. Ms Moffatt said: “The Prince asked me about how I got started and I told him about my past. I thanked him for everything he’s done, and gave him some ﬂowers.”

Ms Moffatt was joined by businessman James Caan, a panelist on the BBC programme “Dragon’s Den”, who had been mentoring her as part of an initiative to mark the 25th anniversary of the programme. Ms Moffatt said that Mr Caan had given her an order to provide ﬂowers for all of his ofﬁces, and she told the conference: “Your support has changed my life”. © Sean Malyon

The Trust forged an alliance with 14 other national youth organizations, including the NSPCC and Barnardo’s, to counter negative stereotypes of young people, with a host of Premiership football stars, including Rio Ferdinand, visiting Trust projects.

The Trust relies on many partner organizations to help it inspire and educate young people, and on St George’s Day in April 2008 Their Royal Highnesses thanked the Armed Forces and emergency services for their work with the charity. The Prince and The Duchess marked the occasion by visiting one of London’s busiest police stations, where they toured the facility and met staff and young people who had participated in The Prince’s Trust’s Team Programme. Fifty police ofﬁcers and staff were seconded to The Trust in 2008-09, and their experience of life, background, skills and training makes them ideally suited to the role. After the visit, Their Royal Highnesses hosted a reception at St James’s Palace for around 200 Armed Forces and emergency service personnel to thank them for their work with the Trust.

The Prince believes that people in the later stages of their lives running their own small businesses also deserve backing, and last year saw the launch of a £2 million three-year partnership between The Prince’s charity PRIME and the Bank of America’s Charitable Foundation. As well as Bank of America supporting older entrepreneurs by providing counselling through its employee business mentoring programme, it will also support the charity itself with back ofﬁce functions and client-facing services. The Prince said at the launch of the partnership: “This will enable PRIME to help even greater numbers of older people establish their own businesses, and also highlight and overcome some of the issues and stereotypes working against those over 50.”

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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.

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 2008, The Prince attended the second May Day summit on climate change for business leaders. As in the previous year, the summit’s aim was to enable the business sector to work together to create, and then commit to, a powerful agenda to tackle climate change. The May Day summit consisted of more than 1,600 people getting together in 12 regional events across the UK, with the hub event at the BT headquarters attended by His Royal Highness and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The May Day initiative does not just exist for one day each year. Under the The Prince of Wales addresses organizational auspices of Business in the Community, a network of more business leaders at The Prince of Wales’s May Day Business Summit than 1,300 British companies ranging from multi-nationals to small family- on Climate Change at the BT owned ﬁrms has been created to share best practice and learn from each Centre in London, in May 2008. other about how to play a powerful role in reducing the UK’s carbon

The Prince of Wales and Prime emissions. Members of the group, by far the largest collection of UK Minister Gordon Brown at businesses committed to tackling climate change, are helped through The Prince of Wales’s May Day practical support and tools to reduce their carbon emissions and energy Business Summit, in May 2008. use, but also measures to raise the proﬁle of their low carbon activities.

One of The Prince’s longest-running sustainability initiatives in the business world has been the Business & the Environment Programme (BEP) run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) of which His Royal Highness is Patron. BEP is internationally recognized for 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), the “P8” initiative encouraging the pensions sector to work together to face the challenges of climate change, and “ClimateWise”, a similar initiative focusing on the insurance sector.

The CLGCC hosted a one-day conference at St James’s Palace in July 2008 for top business executives, and at the event The Prince called for a global deal on reducing carbon emissions that would be “effective, efﬁcient and equitable”. His words were echoed by Lord Stern, adviser to the UK Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development from 2005-2007, who warned that if global targets to reduce carbon emissions signiﬁcantly were not met by 2050 “we are in deep trouble”.

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In Europe the work of the CLGCC last year took on a new momentum following His Royal Highness’s visit to the European Commission in February 2008, and its subsequent work was dominated by its activities in support of the European Commission’s Climate and Energy Package, including sending an open letter in support of the package to every MEP and the Head of State of every EU Member State.

In December 2008, the CLGCC united 140 global business leaders behind the key elements of an international deal on climate change, which was published as The Poznan Communiqué on Climate Change. In this document, the business leaders set out what they believe should be the key elements of an international deal in the climate negotiations in Copenhagen ABOVE in December 2009. The Prince of Wales, Patron of the Cambridge University Programme for Sustainability Leadership Members of The Prince’s P8 Initiative collectively manage over US$3 trillion (CPSL), during the launch of the of investment capital. The project seeks to influence members to utilize their World Travel and Trade Council’s power as significant investors, as well as their unique position within the report ‘Leading the Challenge on Climate Change’ at Clarence House public sector, to shape international policy and the market to face the in February 2009. challenges and risks posed by climate change. His Royal Highness hosted the second P8 Summit in July 2008 where participants agreed to continue working together to address climate change, both within their organizations Members of The Prince’s and as a group to influence policy and markets. P8 Initiative collectively ClimateWise is the collaborative insurance initiative, which His Royal manage over US$3 trillion Highness helped to establish in 2007, to encourage members to work of investment capital. together to respond to the myriad of risks and opportunities of climate change. Last year His Royal Highness invited members to report back on what had been achieved and received an independent review which rated members’ activities against the ClimateWise Principles. The report highlighted examples of good practice for sharing throughout the industry; and delivered conclusions on key areas of achievement, as well as key areas for urgent focus in the year ahead.

The Prince’s sector-by-sector approach to building a coalition of businesses to tackle climate change extended last year to the launch in December 2008 of the Legal Sector Alliance (LSA). Made up of 18 top law ﬁrms, the Environmental Law Foundation and the Law Society, the LSA was formed as a direct result of the ﬁrst May Day Business Summit in 2007. The members of the LSA have signed up to a set of targets against which legal sector companies can measure their carbon reduction as they adopt more environmentally sustainable practices.

At the launch in London His Royal Highness said he was particularly pleased that the legal sector had embarked on the initiative. “Over the years, I think I have heard just about every excuse why companies cannot work together,” he explained. “There are suggestions that even talking to one another will bring down whole armies of corporate lawyers breathing ﬁre and bearing writs for anti-competitive behaviour. But if the legal sector can come together then there is no excuse whatsoever for any other to resist!”

27 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

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. 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 Foundation teaches skills in sustainable development through seminars and workshops, and circulates new examples of practice through its global network, at all times highlighting ABOVE the importance of both innovation and time-tested principles in the building The Prince of Wales speaks to an of successful communities. apprentice during a visit to the Building Crafts College in Stratford, East London in February 2009. The principles underlying the work of The Foundation were emphasized in The Prince’s speech in February 2009 at the charity’s annual conference, “Globalization from the Bottom Up”, held at St James’s Palace and attended by business leaders and representatives from non-governmental organizations and charities. At the event, which showcased schemes from across the globe which are sensitively developing or restoring historic or poor areas hand-in-hand with local people, His Royal Highness spoke The principles underlying the about the need to implement local solutions to problems experienced by work of the Foundation were communities around the world today: “Well-made places are fundamental to the ability to establish locally-inspired solutions to local issues – and, emphasized in The Prince’s indeed, local solutions to global ones.” He added that urban and rural speech in February 2009 settlements evolved over centuries and were rooted in traditions, leading to an environment which helped create a bond amongst its inhabitants. at the charity’s annual conference, “Globalization The Prince’s Foundation is involved in some of these projects and The Prince highlighted one – the Rose Town district of Kingston, Jamaica, where from the Bottom Up”, held community leaders are attempting to regenerate an area which has been at St James’s Palace and blighted by gang violence. Michael Black, President of the Rose Town Benevolent Society, told delegates at the conference that the community attended by business leaders had come together to work on projects which beneﬁtted all. and representatives from The delegates also heard about a project in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is non-governmental regenerating Murad Khane – an ancient residential and commercial area organizations and charities. in the capital city. Turquoise Mountain, one of The Prince’s Charities, is involved in urban regeneration and has asked the Foundation for the Built Environment to create a master plan to revitalize the area. Sayed Zabihullah Majidi, Turquoise Mountain’s Head of Architecture, told delegates that tonnes of rubbish had been cleared from the Old Quarter’s streets, lowering them by

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eight feet. He said: “For many Afghans they associate these once famous areas of the Old City with poverty rather than their cultural identity. In a way, the crumbling mud buildings represent the conditions of their residents – fragile, almost impossible to save, but remarkably still standing. A little hope is left and there is still a very strong residual sense of identity and community.”

Another project with an international ﬂavour the Foundation is working on is the renovation of the Chinatown district in Central London. In May 2008 the charity held a two-day “Enquiry by Design” workshop with the local Chinese community. During the event, a host of ideas emerged to help lead a renaissance of the bustling and unique area and arguably one of the most famous Chinatowns in the world. The ancient art of Feng Shui was also given due consideration when evaluating all the design ideas.

Among the conclusions of the workshop was that Chinatown needed to be better connected to surrounding communities with more identifiable gateways, and that it should incorporate more authentic elements of Chinese heritage in order to ensure its long-term success. Councillor Robert Davis, Westminster City Council’s Cabinet Member for Planning, said after the meeting: “It is vital that we work with the local community to develop design ideas that build on the area’s heritage, and reflect the cultural identity of the Chinese community which first made this unique area of the West End their home in the 1950s. The Prince’s Foundation’s ‘clean sheet of paper’ ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM approach has been invaluable to learn more about the community’s The Prince of Wales talks to aspirations and get the best out of the consultation process.” apprentice Keir Grimshaw at a graduation ceremony for The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Another of the charities working on improving the built environment is The Environment in Shoreditch in Prince’s Regeneration Trust (PRT), and last year it started work on restoring February 2009. The Old Duchy Palace in Lostwithiel, Cornwall. Thought to be the oldest and The Prince of Wales and largest secular medieval building in the county, it played a central role in the The Duchess of Cornwall tin industry for centuries and has had Royal connections from the start, and during a visit to Chinatown in Central London, where the PRT is now working to preserve the listed building and establish an the Foundation for the Built appropriate economical and sustainable new use that also enables some Environment is advising on public access to what is an important local landmark. the renovation of the district.

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 February 2009, he met talented stone masons and carpentry students during a visit to the Building Crafts College in Stratford, East London, which offers apprenticeship placements in specialist bench joinery, shop ﬁtting and stone masonry companies, as well as a number of other courses.

After the visit, His Royal Highness attended the graduation ceremony in nearby Shoreditch of his Foundation’s own Building Crafts Apprentices programme. During their course the students were given the opportunity to work at Poundbury on the design and building of a recreational building for teenagers, and improve their skills by working on heritage buildings such as Killerton House in Devon and Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire.

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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). Previously known as the Education Summer School – an annual week-long seminar for teachers – the PTI is now a permanent educational charity which offers state school teachers year-round training.

Initially focusing on the subjects of English, History and Science, 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.

The scope of the PTI’s work continues to grow, and last year in response to teacher demand two new subjects – Geography and Mathematics – were added to the list of subjects for discussion at the 2008 Summer School.

The PTI’s co-director Bernice McCabe said Mathematics had been added to the list of subjects because of its central importance in enabling people to understand the world around them, while the addition of Geography reﬂected growing interest in the subject among young people. She said: “The popularity of television programmes about wildlife, the environment and foreign countries is evident. This suggests that there is a thirst for knowledge of Geography just as there is curiosity about Science, engineering and medical advances.” ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The Prince of Wales speaks to As well as focusing on teachers and heads of department, The PTI has actor Sir Ian McKellan at a gala dinner for supporters of The also been working in collaboration with another of The Prince’s Charities, Prince’s Foundation for Children Business in the Community, to bring together Heads of Schools to help and the Arts at Buckingham Palace them in a number of areas including teacher career development and in April 2008. leadership in schools. At the direct instigation of The Prince, the ﬁrst ‘What The Prince of Wales meets students Works in Schools’ seminars were held in January and December 2008, and during a visit to Bethnal Green with participants requesting further seminars more are planned in the future. Technology College in July 2008.

The Duchess of Cornwall meets Another highlight of the education year was the visit by The Prince of pupils and staff during a tour of Wales in July 2008 to a school in East London to meet teachers involved the West of England School and College For Children With Little or in the Teach First programme of which he is Patron. Teach First recruits No Sight in Exeter in May 2008. exceptional graduates from top universities and trains them to teach in schools where there may be signiﬁcant deprivation or lack of achievement.

During the visit to the once-failing, but now successful, Bethnal Green Technology College, His Royal Highness met nine Teach First teachers and some of the business leaders involved in the programme, and watched a showcase put together by pupils.

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Schools Minister Lord Adonis also attended the engagement, and he said that The Prince’s recent appointment as Patron of Teach First would help with the “emergence of Teach First as a true national institution”.

As well as the PTI, 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. Every week 400 students attend classes at the school.

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. The charity, which believes that the arts transform lives and are an essential component in shared humanity, speciﬁcally targets children who would not otherwise have the opportunity to be involved in all art forms, including dance, theatre, opera, literature and the visual arts.

In April 2008, a gala dinner attended by The Prince of Wales and The ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM Duchess of Cornwall was held at Buckingham Palace to thank supporters of Ofﬁcial harpist to the Prince of the charity. Their Royal Highnesses joined guests to watch a concert in the Wales, Claire Jones, plays during a concert at the Royal Opera House ballroom, with performers including Jeremy Irons, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, in London in November 2008. the Philharmonia Orchestra and performers from the hugely popular West End musical Billy Elliot. During a visit to London’s Royal Opera House, The Prince of Wales, President of the Royal Ballet, and The Prince’s Foundation for Children & The Arts also helped The Prince Royal Ballet Director Monica Mason celebrate his 60th birthday in November 2008 by inviting him and The watch ballet dancers Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather Duchess to a concert by the Philharmonia Orchestra for children in the rehearse in January 2009. Floral Hall at Covent Garden.

In January 2009, His Royal Highness returned to Covent Garden in his capacity as Patron of The Royal Opera and President of The Royal Ballet to watch rehearsals of The Flying Dutchman with Bryn Terfel and enjoy The Royal Ballet’s dress rehearsal of DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse. While there The Prince met a group of pupils from Southwark taking part in the Royal Opera House Education’s Chance to Dance programme, which takes ballet into 46 schools across London to introduce children to dancing.

Two months later The Prince of Wales extended further his support of the arts by agreeing to become Patron of The Royal Opera House itself.

In May 2008, The Duchess of Cornwall saw ﬁrst-hand the work of The West of England School and College For Children With Little Or No Sight when she visited Exeter, Devon. Her Royal Highness toured the 170 year-old complex, met staff and pupils and saw the new, state-of-the-art, trafﬁc light and pedestrian crossing system used in the grounds to help students cope with road dangers. Her Royal Highness was so impressed with the work she saw there she agreed to become the School’s Patron.

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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 is the focus of the work of The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH), a charity set up by The Prince in 1993 to promote and support the provision of integrated healthcare. One of the key developments for the charity last year was the formation of an ofﬁcial partnership with the US-based organization, the Bravewell Collaborative. In February 2009, FIH ofﬁcials attended the annual Bravewell Summit in Washington DC where they learned how integrated healthcare is helping American patients, doctors and society at large to tackle the problems caused by the rising incidence of chronic, long-term diseases.

The summit was jointly organized by Bravewell and the Institute of Medicine, the leading US scientiﬁc body for medicine. Among the issues discussed at the summit were patient-centred care, the scientiﬁc basis of integrated medicine, and value-driven care.

The Prince of Wales regularly visits National Health Service (NHS) hospitals to encourage their work in integrated healthcare, and one of the highlights of the past year was the service of celebration to mark the NHS’s 60th anniversary which The Prince of Wales attended at Westminster Abbey in July 2008. At the service, attended by hundreds of former and current NHS staff, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown described the institution as the “noblest manifestation of the character of our country”. ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The Prince of Wales talking to The NHS opened a new integrated health centre in Culm Valley, Devon, Dr Bernie Ramsahoye and his team during his visit to the new in September 2008 and The Prince and The Duchess of Cornwall were the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Unit guests of honour at the launch. The new centre offers a range of services at the Western General Hospital, in one building including a GP practice, midwifery services, an urgent Edinburgh in June 2008. treatment centre and complementary therapy practitioners. The Prince of Wales talks with a Chelsea Pensioner during a tour The Duchess of Cornwall is also involved in a number of health charities, of a new infirmary at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London in including, as their Patron: Trinity Hospice, which provides adults with end-of- March 2009. life care; Helen & Douglas House, which looks after children and adolescents with life-shortening conditions; and Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. The Duchess of Cornwall speaks to pupils from The Royal School, Her Royal Highness’s most high-profile role is as President of the National Hampstead, London, taking part in Osteoporosis Society, and in February 2009 she opened a new £1.6 million a ‘Big Bone Walk’ to raise funds for extension to the NOS’s headquarters in Bath and presented the inaugural the National Osteoporosis Society in February 2009. Duchess of Cornwall Award for work in the field of osteoporosis. The award went to Professor Cyrus Cooper.

Later that month Her Royal Highness provided a boost to Hampstead school girls who were raising money for the charity by taking part in a Big Bone Walk. As a veteran of the Big Bone Walk herself, The Duchess congratulated junior pupils who had completed a 40-minute walk on their hard work, and presented the walkers with stickers for their efforts.

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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

The Prince of Wales has long believed that businesses can be successful while also serving wider social and environmental interests. The idea that corporate social responsibility and proﬁt-making are far from mutually exclusive is demonstrated by His Royal Highness’s own business, Duchy Originals.

Set up in 1990, the aim of Duchy Originals was to create a “virtuous circle” with a company that generated proﬁts for charity by providing natural, high quality food and other products while helping to protect and sustain the environment and supporting small farms and producers.

The past year has been a busy and challenging one for the company. Amid a difficult trading environment for organic food it has been investing in a re-shaped product range, an updated brand identity, and two significant new non-food ranges – organic seeds and herbal tinctures – both of which have immediately proved popular with customers. While this significant programme of investment has had a temporary impact on profits, Duchy Originals is confident it will ensure the brand’s future profitability.

Since establishing Duchy Originals The Prince has set up several other “social ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM enterprises” to operate as commercial businesses to generate funding for His Pottery made by Afghan craftsmen Royal Highness’s charities. and sold through Turquoise Mountain Arts. Among them is Turquoise Mountain Arts, the trading arm of the Turquoise The Highgrove Shop in Tetbury. Mountain Foundation, a charity co-founded by The Prince to help with the economic, social and cultural regeneration of a precinct in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. The business ﬁnds markets for the craft products designed and made at Afghanistan’s only centre of traditional Afghan arts, which is run by the charity; and also provides business training to young artisans, preparing them to succeed both as artists and entrepreneurs.

In a similar vein, Traditional Arts Limited operates as the trading arm of The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, the charity based in East London which teaches the arts and crafts skills of the great faith-based traditions of the world. The company markets and sells a collection of china, glass, silver and other decorative products based on designs by students and alumni of the School.

The Highgrove Shop, which has operated for many years in the grounds of Highgrove selling gifts and products to visitors to the gardens, expanded last year by opening a retail outlet in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. The shop, which stocks a wider range of products on a seven-day-a-week basis, has had an extremely successful first year and has proved a significant asset to the town of Tetbury and its businesses by attracting new visitors. Highgrove products are also available online at www.highgroveshop.com. All the profits from the new shop and the Highgrove outlet go to The Prince’s Charities Foundation.

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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 The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in York at a ceremony to name the new Peppercorn class A1 steam locomotive, the Tornado, in February 2009.

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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 September 2008 The Prince joined more than a thousand people at Liverpool Cathedral to pay tribute to the lives of police ofﬁcers who had died in the line of duty.

The Prince, as Patron of National Police Memorial Day, met the families of fallen ofﬁcers after the service. Among them were Corrie Methven and Kate Parker, whose husband, PC Andrew Parker of North Wales Police, was killed in a road trafﬁc accident three years ago. Mrs Parker said: “The service was absolutely perfect and I’m very, very proud today.”

Their Royal Highnesses also participate in engagements that highlight the work of volunteers throughout the UK. In July 2008, they hosted a garden party at Buckingham Palace in honour of the British Red Cross. His Royal Highness is President of the British Red Cross Society and the event marked the centenary of the British Red Cross’s Royal Charter. Thousands of Red Cross staff and volunteers attended the party, which also saw The Prince receive the keys to a Land Rover, one of 60 being donated to the charity by the car company as a gift on His Royal Highness’s 60th birthday.

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.

Promoting locally sourced food to help small family farms has long been a passion of The Prince’s, and in February 2009 he visited Nottinghamshire ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM for the launch of a food accreditation scheme for caterers who buy local, Corrie Methven meets The Prince organic and GM-free produce. The Food for Life Catering Mark is an of Wales during the National Police Memorial Day service at accreditation scheme that provides a step-by-step route to sustainable Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral catering. The scheme grew out of the Soil Association’s work with school in September 2008. dinners, and in a speech at the launch, The Prince, who is Patron of the

The Prince of Wales is presented Soil Association, said he hoped food “hubs” could be developed to help with a bottle of apple juice by Roz hospitals and schools source from local farmers. Day during a reception at Highgrove House for members of the Women’s Food and Farming Union in Supporting farmers’ families is another part of The Prince’s work, and in September 2008. September 2008 he hosted a reception for the Women’s Food and Farming Union (WFU) at Highgrove. The reception was attended by 130 farmers’ The Duchess of Cornwall during a visit to the Devon County Show wives and women farmer members of the WFU, which was founded in 1979 near Exeter in May 2008. to promote an understanding of the quality of British produce, and to link the producer to the consumer to help improve the quality and variety of British food. In a speech, The Prince thanked the WFU for their work in running an

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education programme for primary schools to educate children about where their food comes from and how to grow sustainably and eat healthily.

During a visit to the Devon County Show, in May 2008, The Duchess of Cornwall, as President of the Devon County Agricultural Association, told members that she was especially pleased to see the work of the Year of Food and Farming and Farms for City Children. She said: “Few things can be as important as reconnecting children and indeed adults with the land, and helping to understand how food is grown.”

In a similar vein, The Duchess met winners of the 2008 British Food Fortnight Cook For Life Challenge at the Dorchester Hotel in February 2009. The school pupils from Hawarden High School in Flintshire cooked for her and other guests.

Faith and ethnic communities Encouraging tolerance in Britain of the country’s many different faiths and communities and celebrating the good works they do throughout the UK has long been a feature of The Prince’s work.

In June 2008, His Royal Highness hosted a reception at Clarence House for volunteers working with the Hope 08 project, a Christian church-led initiative which has organized for tens of thousands of volunteers to make a positive impact on communities across the country. The initiative encourages members of church congregations to play an active role in helping transform their communities and bring hope to those around them through a wide variety of activities.

In February 2009, The Prince and The Duchess visited the Dawoodi Bohra Mosque in London to highlight the work of a Muslim community in London that has made a major contribution to British business and has patriotism at the heart of its faith. Prince Qaidjoher Ezzuddin, the son of the Dawoodi Bohra’s leader, attended the visit and praised The Prince in a speech to more than 100 people gathered in the mosque in Northolt. He said: “It is ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM heart-warming for our community and all Muslims residing in the United The Duchess of Cornwall meets Kingdom that the Heir to The Throne of the country they live in values their school pupils from Hawarden High School in Flintshire in the kitchens religion and traditions in the way you do.” of the Dorchester Hotel, London, who won the ‘Cook for Life In March 2009, Their Royal Highnesses celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi Challenge in February 2009. with schoolchildren in Neasden, London, in a riot of colour, dance and music The Prince of Wales with the at the Swaminarayan School. Holi celebrates the arrival of Spring and marks Archbishop of Canterbury, the changing Seasons with a vibrant festival which reﬂects the beauty Dr. Rowan Williams, at a Service of Thanksgiving for the renewal associated with Spring blossoms and the colour they bring. The Prince and of St Martin-in-the-Fields Church The Duchess watched the event and afterwards threw ﬂower petals over the in London in April 2008. powder-covered youngsters once their display was over. They also visited a

The Prince of Wales and The classroom where ﬁve year-olds were learning about St David’s Day by Duchess of Cornwall during their making daffodil chains and baking special treats. visit to the Dawoodi Bohra Mosque known as the ‘Husaini Masjid’, in Northolt, West London in Correspondence and meetings February 2009. 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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THE NEW HOUSEHOLD OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY

Prince William and Prince Harry continue to serve as full-time ofﬁcers in the Armed Forces while taking on a growing number of Patronages and charitable links. A new Household was created to support The Princes in these activities. In addition, The Princes’ Charities Forum continues to grow as a means of supporting the organizations and charities with which they are closely linked.

LEFT Prince William and Prince Harry arrive for the Royal World Premiere of the 22nd James Bond ﬁlm ‘Quantum of Solace’ in aid of the Royal British Legion and Help the Heroes in October 2008.

39 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 The past year has been a busy period for both Prince William and Prince Harry. As well as beginning full-time military ﬂying training courses and becoming involved with a number of new associations, charities and other organizations, in January 2009 a new joint Household Ofﬁce was created for the two Princes in recognition of their evolving public, military and charitable activities.

The creation of the new Household recognized The Princes’ increasing contribution and responsibility. During the past year, Prince William took on six additional Patronages. Prince William is now President or Patron of 12 organizations, many of which are linked to his and Prince Harry’s main areas of interest: supporting young people in society, particularly the most disadvantaged; Armed Forces’ charities and related support groups; and ecology and the environment. The Prince also took on his ﬁrst honorary appointment in the Royal Air Force, becoming Honorary Air Commandant of RAF Coningsby.

Prince William carried out a number of engagements throughout the country during the year, a good number of them in Wales reﬂecting his particularly close links with the Principality. Engagements ranged from meeting children, families and staff at Valleys Kids’ Dinas Community Project in Mid-Glamorgan, supporting the Welsh rugby team at the Millennium Stadium, meeting rescue teams at the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue base, to opening the new headquarters of Media Wales in Cardiff.

Prince Harry’s ofﬁcial activities also increased during the year, as he took on two new Patronages with Prince William: the Henry Van Straubenzee Memorial Fund, which support schools in Uganda, and Khumbu Challenge 2009, which creates adventurous training opportunities for wounded British Armed Forces personnel. Prince Harry was also given his ﬁrst honorary ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM appointment in the Royal Air Force, becoming Honorary Air Commandant Prince William lays a wreath at the of RAF Honington. Cenotaph on Remembrance Day in November 2008. During the year, Prince Harry remained closely involved with Sentebale, Prince William disembarking a Royal the charity he co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006. In August, Navy Lynx helicopter from HMS Iron Duke, on the island of Montserrat, Prince Harry led a team of fellow soldiers from the Household Cavalry on where the ship was taking part in a two-week expedition in southern Africa to raise money to support the an exercise in July 2008. children of Lesotho. The expedition culminated with a project to help

Prince William bends to chat to construct a new school for disabled children. In October, Prince William and children during a visit to the Valleys Prince Harry together took part in a 10-day charity motorbike ride across Kids Project at the Pen Dinas Flats, South Africa to generate funds for Sentebale, the Nelson Mandela Children’s in Dinas in the Rhondda Valleys in May 2008. Fund and UNICEF.

As well as carrying out public and private engagements to support their Patronages, The Princes invite all their charities and associations to a seminar to assist in promoting exchanges of ideas and joint initiatives to the beneﬁt of all the members. Last year the gathering, which has become known as The Princes’ Charities Forum, met on two occasions.

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In addition to their charitable and other work, Prince William and Prince Harry remain full-time serving ofﬁcers in the Armed Forces. In January, Prince William started an 18-month training course to become a full-time, fully operational Search and Rescue Pilot in the Royal Air Force.

His decision to embark on the training course followed a successful year of intensive attachments to all branches of the Armed Forces. These included: four months with the Royal Air Force learning about their range of capabilities and modern-day role, culminating with a short visit to RAF personnel in the Middle East and Afghanistan; two months with the Royal Navy, including time on board HMS Iron Duke engaged in counter-narcotics activities in the Caribbean; a fortnight at the Ministry of Defence’s strategic headquarters; a series of visits to the Army Air Corps; and an extended period with Special Forces in the Autumn. These attachments were designed to build on Prince William’s existing knowledge of the Armed Forces gained during his services as a tank commander in the Household Cavalry.

In January, after two and a half years serving as a Formation Reconnaissance Troop Leader in the Blues & Royals (a regiment of the Household Cavalry), Prince Harry began training with the Army Air Corps with the aspiration of becoming a full-time helicopter pilot. His course will last at least two years and will take him to a number of Army and Royal Air Force bases across the country.

The Princes’ new Household was created in January 2009 with The Prince of Wales’s support, and remains closely linked with his Household at Clarence House. The Princes’ new Household shares with Clarence House a number of departments, such as Finance, Personnel, Archives and Press Ofﬁce.

The Household is based at St James’s Palace and is led by Jamie Lowther- Pinkerton, The Princes’ Private Secretary. Two other senior staff are also employed, one of whom (the Assistant Press Secretary) is shared with Clarence House. These three ofﬁcials are assisted by other members of staff who support The Princes and the Household in their activities. Additionally, ABOVE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM Sir David Manning, a former British Ambassador to the United States of Prince Harry jokes with a toddler America, was appointed by The Queen to an unpaid, part-time, advisory during his visit to a newly opened centre for abused children in role with The Princes. Maseru, Lesotho in July 2008. The new Household is funded in the same way as The Princes’ previous Prince Harry departs from the service at St Giles’ Cathedral, Ofﬁce, predominately by The Prince of Wales, with small amounts met Edinburgh, in June 2008 after a through the Grants-In-Aid, as for other Members of the Royal Family. military parade along the Royal Mile to honour troops who fell during his tour of Afghanistan.

Prince Harry talks to Harvey Fleming, ﬁve, and Lily Slater, four, winners of ‘Best Brave Child 2-5’ awards at the WellChild Awards, held at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London in October 2008.

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INCOME, EXPENDITURE AND STAFF

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.

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

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Year to 31st March 2009 2008 £000s £000s Income and funding Duchy of Cornwall 16,458 16,273 Grants-In-Aid 2,212 1,951 Government Departments 821 503

Total income and funding 19,491 18,727

Expenditure Ofﬁcial duties and charitable activities 9,480 7,997

Grants-In-Aid: London office and official residence 422 714 Official travel by air and rail 1,710 1,157 Communications support 80 80 2,212 1,951

Overseas tours and military secondees 821 503 Ofﬁcial expenditure 12,513 10,451

Surplus after Ofﬁcial Costs 6,978 8,276

Tax (also includes VAT) 3,093 3,429 Non-ofﬁcial expenditure 1,710 2,217

Operating surplus 2,175 2,630

Capital expenditure (less depreciation), loan repayments and transfer to reserves (2,018) (2,436)

Net cash surplus 157 194

INCOME AND FUNDING £millions Duchy of Cornwall 16.458

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 over the years.

Since The Prince of Wales assumed responsibility for its management on his 21st birthday in 1969, the growth in the capital assets 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. Furthermore, to ensure that the management of the Duchy gives sufficient emphasis to the protection

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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 to act, in effect, as a trustee to ensure that future Dukes’ interests are protected. The main 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 year so that it can be satisfied that the Treasury is fulfilling its responsibilities in this respect. The basis on which the Duchy is run was reaffirmed by the Treasury in 2005. His Royal Highness chooses to use His Royal Highness chooses to use the majority of his income from the Duchy to meet the cost of his, The Duchess of Cornwall’s and Prince William’s and Prince Harry’s the majority of his public and charitable work. income from the The Duchy of Cornwall’s annual accounts are published by The Stationery Office (TSO) Duchy to meet the and can be ordered by mail at TSO, PO Box 29, Duke Street, Norwich NR3 LGN, online cost of his, The at www.tso.co.uk/bookshop, and by telephone on 0870 600 5522. They are also available at www.duchyofcornwall.org. Duchess of Cornwall’s £millions and Prince William’s Grants-In-Aid 2.212 and Prince Harry’s Funding to meet official costs incurred by or in support of The Queen as Head of State public and charitable is provided by Parliament in return for the surrender of the revenue from the Crown work. 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 0.821

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 (£462,638 spent by the Ministry of Defence in 2008-09) and some costs of official overseas visits undertaken at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (£358,179 spent by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2008-09).

45 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 EXPENDITURE £millions Ofﬁcial duties and charitable activities 9.480

Over 71 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 £9.480 million, staff costs accounted for £6.2 million, or 66 per cent. An analysis of ofﬁcial expenditure is given on page 53.

The Prince of Wales employs 152.6 full-time equivalent staff. Of these, 125.3 support Their Royal Highnesses, including Prince William and Prince Harry, in undertaking ofﬁcial duties and charitable activities, and 27.3 are personal, garden and farm staff.

The table on page 48 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 0.422

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 3,101 people were entertained officially at Clarence House during the year, and there were 20,410 paying visitors. The Household also has offices in other parts of St James’s Palace, which is now the location of the new 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 1.710

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 2008-09, Their Royal Highnesses travelled 56,347 miles to and from official engagements in the UK and overseas. This figure includes 41,362 miles of overseas travel. The cost of these journeys, excluding travel by car, amounted to £1.71 million in 2008-09 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 2008-09 – 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 throughout 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 Military secondees and overseas tours 0.821

The Equerries (two full-time and two part-time) and three of the five Orderlies are seconded from the Armed Forces to assist The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in Their Royal undertaking official duties. The role of the Equerries is explained on page 51. The cost to Highnesses the Ministry of Defence in 2008-09 was £462,638. undertook official The Foreign and Commonwealth Office meets the cost of Official Visits abroad by The tours to Japan, 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 Brunei, Indonesia, 2008-09, Their Royal Highnesses undertook official tours to Japan, Brunei, Indonesia, Chile, Brazil and Chile, Brazil and Ecuador, and paid short visits to France and Poland. The Prince also visited Indonesia and Poland on his own. These visits are undertaken at the request of Ecuador, and paid the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to build on and strengthen the good relations short visits to France which the UK enjoys with countries throughout the world. The cost of these visits to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office amounted to £358,179 in 2008-09. and Poland. £millions Tax 3.093

The Prince of Wales pays income tax voluntarily on the surplus of the Duchy of Cornwall, applying normal income tax rules and at the current 40 per cent rate, and pays income tax on all other income and capital gains tax like any private individual. The £3.093 million includes VAT. If employer’s National Insurance contributions and Council Tax are included the total increases to £3.6 million.

£millions Non-ofﬁcial expenditure 1.710

In addition to paying for the ofﬁcial duties of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, and 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 8.9 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 18.4 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, tours of which are free of charge to visitors, is a valuable charitable asset visited every year by more than 37,000 people.

The results of Home Farm, The Prince’s organic farm on the Highgrove Estate, are included under this heading. 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 is visited by approximately 1,800 people annually.

47 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 STAFF As at and for the year to 31st March 2009 Full-time Ofﬁcial Costs equivalent staff £000s 2009 2009 Principal Private Secretary and Assistants 3.5

Private Secretaries’ Ofﬁce Deputy and Assistant Private Secretaries 6.1 Research and Administrative Staff 14.3 Correspondence 3.5

Household of Prince William and Prince Harry 4.3 31.7 2,785

Finance, Personnel and Administration Treasurer and Assistants 2.5 Finance and Inventory 9.0 Personnel 7.6 Archives 4.0 23.1 2,108

Communications Communications Secretary and Assistant 2.0 Press Secretary 1.0 Assistant Press Secretaries 2.2 Press Ofﬁcers and Website Editor 4.0 9.2 716

Master of the Household’s Department Master of the Household and Assistants 4.6 Equerries 1.5 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 10.8 Valets and Dressers 2.5 Orchard Room staff 1.6 Gardeners and Estate Workers 14.9 54.9 3,871

Director of Charities Ofﬁce Director and Assistants 3.0 Deputy Director 0.4 Head of Development and Website Editor 2.0 Adviser 0.2 Project Manager 0.8 6.4 –

Total Ofﬁcial Staff as at 31st March 2009 125.3 9,480

Charitable Activities based at Clarence House The Prince’s Rainforests Project 18.5 Accounting for Sustainability 4.0 Other Charitable Projects 1.2 23.7

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Offices The principal office of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, where most of their staff work, is in Clarence House and other rooms at St James’s Palace in Central London. The office of Prince William and Prince Harry is also in St James’s Palace. The cost of maintaining the fabric of the buildings, as well as of utilities and fixed-line telephones (but not other costs for the London office), is met from the Property Services Grant-In-Aid (see page 46). There are also offices for official staff at Their Royal Highnesses’ residences of Highgrove and Birkhall to assist The Prince with The principal office his continuing work. Some costs incurred at Highgrove and Birkhall are, therefore, of The Prince of charged to the ‘Official duties and charitable activities’ expenditure category. Wales and The STAFF AND OFFICE ORGANIZATION Duchess of Cornwall, The Principal Private Secretary where most of their The Principal Private Secretary is the senior member of The Prince of Wales’s and staff work, is in 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. Clarence House and other rooms at St The Private Secretaries’ Office The Senior Deputy Private Secretary is responsible for the day-to-day running of the James’s Palace in Private Secretaries’ Office. He and the Deputy and Assistant Private Secretaries facilitate Central London. and support The Prince of Wales’s and The Duchess of Cornwall’s official duties, engagements and charitable activities. They are responsible for the strategy and context of 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 with certain of The Prince’s and The Duchess’s organizations. These responsibilities, as well as those of other senior staff, are listed in the Appendix (see pages 58 and 59). They also ensure that His Royal Highness is kept informed about topical issues, and provide him with background information for his communications with Government Ministers and other leading figures, and prepare drafts for his speeches and articles. The Private Secretaries are supported by researchers, personal assistants and administrative staff, and work closely with their colleagues in The Queen’s Private Secretaries’ Office.

The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry receive a large number of letters each year. In 2008-09, for example, they received 30,237 letters. People from all over the world write to Their Royal Highnesses, although the Their Royal majority of the letters are from the UK. Highnesses see a Letters cover a wide range of subjects and are often prompted by current issues and wide selection of the debates. Their Royal Highnesses see a wide selection of the correspondence and The correspondence and Prince personally wrote 2,662 letters in 2008-09. The Duchess of Cornwall personally wrote 800, and they jointly wrote 11. Their Royal Highnesses ensure that letters not The Prince personally answered by themselves or their Private Secretaries are replied to by the Correspondence wrote 2,662 letters 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. in 2008-09. 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 2008-09, items donated for auction raised in excess of £150,000 for charity.

49 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 The Household of Prince William and Prince Harry The Private Secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry is responsible for the day-today running of their Household, including ofﬁcial engagements and charitable work. The ofﬁce also supports, plans and advises with respect to the Princes’ military and longer-term careers, and deals with administrative matters.

The Treasurer’s Office The Treasurer’s Office is responsible for Finance, Personnel and Administration, and Archives and Inventory. The Office is also responsible for the information systems across the Household.

The Finance Section exercises ﬁnancial control through a combination of annual 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 matters. The Household seeks to provide a fulfilling work environment and to maximize individuals’ contribution and job satisfaction. The Personnel Section manages the achievement of these objectives including staff recruitment, remuneration, training and career development, internal communications and employee relations. It also arranges secondments, national and international appointments and work experience placements. The majority of the Household’s information technology systems are provided and supported by the Information Systems Management section at Buckingham Palace, with the Household’s cost met by The Prince of Wales.

Four 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 all the 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 a 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 2008-09 www.princeofwales.gov.uk attracted an average of more than half a million page impressions per month, and it remains 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, as well as recent speeches and articles, biographical

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details, and a picture gallery. Information and news about Prince William and Prince Harry are also available on the 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. The Royal Channel has around 27,000 subscribers and the 85 videos have been viewed more than six 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 of The Prince of Wales’s Four Archivists are charities. People are encouraged to join the community which enables them to receive responsible for a monthly newsletter and enter competitions. managing all the Master of the Household’s Department papers and files The Master of the Household is responsible for the Equerry’s Office, which co-ordinates the programme of engagements for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. relating to the public The Equerry’s Office manages Their Royal Highnesses’ diaries on a daily basis, life of The Prince providing an interface between staff, Police and outside organizations, and plan the longer-term programme. The Equerry’s Office also manages the logistical and transport of Wales since the arrangements for official visits at home and abroad. There are usually several overseas late 1960s. visits a year. The Equerry is a serving military officer seconded from the Armed Forces to the Household for a period of 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 Temporary 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 also 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 each year (he conducted 11, one of which was in Northern Ireland, in 2008-09), and also attends state functions on behalf of The Queen. The Equerry’s Ofﬁce is responsible for the arrangements for these engagements.

The Master of the Household and his department are also responsible for Their Royal Highnesses’ residences, ofﬁces and gardens, for personal staff and for the overall supervision of receptions and entertaining.

Ofﬁcial entertaining is an important part of The Prince of Wales’s and The Duchess of Cornwall’s role. Last year they entertained 9,021 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 2008-09, Their Royal Highnesses gave 118 receptions, seminars, lunches and dinners.

Most of the staff who manage and organize these occasions are required 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.

51 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 For larger receptions and dinners, external event managers oversee the planning and administrative and catering arrangements. One butler is on duty at all times. The Prince of Wales has valets and travelling orderlies, working in pairs one week on and one week off, to assist him with his clothing and 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 has two members of staff who perform a similar function. The Prince of Wales The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall use their home at Highgrove, and The Duchess and in particular the Orchard Room within its grounds, for official engagements and entertaining. The Orchard Room was designed and built by The Prince specifically of Cornwall use their to entertain official guests. In 2008-09, it was used for 16 receptions, seminars and home at Highgrove, briefings for more than 1,500 guests, and visitors to the garden have refreshments there. It also contains the Highgrove Shop. and in particular the Orchard Room within Last year, The Prince and The Duchess invited more than 37,000 people to go round the garden at Highgrove, finishing with refreshments in the Orchard Room. In the its grounds, for Summer, there can be up to 12 tours of 25 people each day, amounting to over 2,000 official engagements tours a year (taking the total number of visits since the garden was opened to the public in 1992 to over 210,000). The visitors between them voluntarily donated £248,993 to and entertaining. The Prince’s charitable organizations. 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. Visitors to the garden Visitors to the garden include charitable and gardening groups, and gardening include charitable students and researchers work in the garden throughout the year. Visitors are able to buy items from the Highgrove Shop which donates all its profits to The Prince’s and gardening Charities Foundation. The Prince employs a team of gardeners. The garden is mainly groups, and used for visits by members of the public; as such, the majority of the costs of the garden are allocated to official expenditure (although official as well as personal costs are met gardening students from His Royal Highness’s private income). The balance, which is assumed to relate to and researchers The Prince’s and The Duchess’s personal enjoyment of the garden, is allocated to non-official expenditure. work in the garden throughout the year. 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.

The Prince’s Charities The Charities Ofﬁce is managed by the Director of Charities, supported by a part-time 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 including 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 and The Prince’s Rainforests Project.

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ANNUAL VISITS

The Prince and The Duchess make a number of visits to Scotland and Wales every year, and in addition stay for a working week at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh and for a series of official engagements in Wales. The cost of these longer annual visits, which principally relates to receptions and dinners, amounted to £51,505 in 2008-09, and is included in ‘official entertaining’ expenditure. The Prince and The Duchess make OFFICIAL COSTS ANALYSED BY EXPENDITURE CATEGORY a number of visits to Expenditure has been analysed and explained in the preceding sections by department. Scotland and Wales The following table analyses official duties and charitable activities expenditure by category. Year to 31st March £000s £000s every year, and in 2009 2008 addition stay for Staff salaries and related costs 6,244 5,444 Training, recruitment and staff welfare 230 174 a working week Travel and subsistence (including vehicle costs) 308 227 at the Palace of External consultancy and professional fees 171 125 Official entertaining and receptions 527 416 Holyroodhouse Donations and gifts 66 40 in Edinburgh and Utilities 182 139 Residences and offices not paid for from the Grant-In-Aid 703 419 for a series of Press and information services 89 112 official engagements Stationery and office equipment 218 183 Computers and information systems 347 321 in Wales. Housekeeping and office cleaning 105 132 Insurance 45 49 Gardens 65 63 Depreciation 180 153

Total 9,480 7,997

Some of the differences between current and prior-year expenditure are explained below.

Salaries The staff salaries and related costs of £6.244 million relate to the 125.3 ofﬁcial staff and include pension and National Insurance contributions of £897,000.

External consultancy and professional fees External consultancy and professional fees include legal and audit fees.

Ofﬁcial entertaining and receptions Ofﬁcial entertaining includes receptions, lunches and dinners that take place at Clarence House, the Orchard Room at Highgrove, Holyroodhouse and a number of other locations. The costs include the maintenance, upkeep and rent of the Orchard Room.

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The Household has adopted the Connected Reporting Framework, developed by The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, to report its sustainability performance. By bringing together ﬁnancial, environmental and social information, the framework provides a more complete and balanced record of an organization’s performance and impact on society and the environment. The Household’s main sustainability impacts are through its and Their Royal Highnesses’ work with communities and charities, as a result of travel (particularly overseas travel for the Government), heating and lighting residences and the farm at Highgrove.

Communities

Year to 31st March 2009 2008 2007 £m £m £m Funds raised for The Prince’s Charities 130 122 110 Expenditure on ofﬁcial duties and charitable activities 9.5 8.0 7.3 Total taxes paid 3.6 3.9 3.8

Total number of ofﬁcial engagements 743 671 688

Members of the Household, as part of their roles, dedicate all or part of their time to supporting Their Royal Highnesses’ ofﬁcial and charitable activities. This includes visits to local communities, and working with businesses, Government and other organizations to help tackle social and environmental issues.

Details of these activities are given in the front sections of this Review.

Staff of The Prince’s Charities Foundation provide support to The Prince’s Charities which represent, as a group, the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the UK. Further information about The Prince’s Charities is given on pages 20 to 33.

The environment

Greenhouse gas emissions CO2e emissions (Tonnes)

Year to 31st March 2009 2008 2007 4,000

CO2 equivalent emissions tonnes tonnes tonnes

Travel 2,071 2,139 2,508 3,000 Energy – heating and lighting 530 656 917

Household CO2e emissions 2,601 2,795 3,425 2,000 Expenditure £000s £000s £000s

Carbon offset expenditure 25 23 19 1,000 Investment to reduce emissions 68 498 154 Travel – ofﬁcial expenditure 1,710 1,157 1,485 – Energy – operating expenditure 173 150 153 2007 2008 2009 Target

Household: Travel This table relates to the Household only. Greenhouse gas emissions from the Home Farm at Highgrove are shown Household: Energy on page 57.

CO2e emissions (tonnes) for the Household. The Household seeks to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as far as possible and has set a target of a 25 per cent reduction against 2007 levels by 2012. Emissions in 2008-09 were 24 per cent lower than in 2007.

The 2009 carbon emissions are calculated according to the Household’s carbon reporting policy and have been subject to independent assurance. Further details are available at www.princeofwales.gov.uk. After measures are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, remaining emissions are offset through a range of sustainable development projects.

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CO2e emissions (Tonnes) Travel

3,000 Year to 31st March 2009 2008 2007

2,500 CO2e emissions tonnes tonnes tonnes

2,000 Official Overseas Travel 1,253 962 929 Official UK Travel 405 466 565 1,500 Total Official Travel 1,658 1,428 1,494 1,000 Other Travel 413 711 1,014 500 Total CO 2e emissions from travel 2,071 2,139 2,508 – 2007 2008 2009 £000s £000s £000s

Official Overseas Travel Expenditure on ofﬁcial travel 1,710 1,157 1,485 Official UK Travel Other Travel Further details of ofﬁcial travel are given on page 46. Other travel includes all staff travel, staff commuting and Their Royal Highnesses’ private travel.

Breakdown of CO2e emissions (tonnes) for travel. The majority of carbon emissions from travel arise as a result of overseas trips undertaken by Their Royal Highnesses at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This year Their Royal Highnesses undertook two long-haul trips and this has resulted in a significant increase in official overseas travel carbon emissions.

Carbon emission from Ofﬁcial UK travel and other travel, over which the Household has more direct control, have been reduced through a combination of less travel and the use of transport with lower emissions. The Household endeavours to minimize the environmental impact of travel during the planning process taking into account security, logistical, cost and other considerations. A green travel policy for staff has been established.

The use of fossil fuels for travel is reduced by running the Royal Train and several of The Prince’s cars on used cooking oil. As the oil is left over from its ﬁrst use, it does not result in additional land in the UK or elsewhere being cultivated for biofuel production. In addition, The Prince’s 39 year-old Aston Martin runs on bioethanol made from English wine wastage.

Carbon emissions from ofﬁcial air travel, in common with all Royal and Ministerial air travel, are offset separately through the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund.

Energy use by source (MWh) Energy

3,500 Year to 31st March 2009 2008 2007

3,000 Energy use MWh MWh MWh

2,500 Electricity – renewable 504 383 29 Electricity – derived from fossil fuels 272 386 788 2,000 Gas and oil 1,910 2,100 2,125 1,500 Total energy use 2,686 2,869 2,942 1,000 tonnes tonnes tonnes 500 CO2e emissions from energy use 530 656 917 – 2007 2008 2009 £000s £000s £000s Electricity from renewable sources Operating expenditure 173 150 153 Electricity from other sources Gas and oil The table shows electricity, gas and oil purchases and associated emissions. It does not currently include energy generated on-site from woodchip boilers.

Energy use encompasses heating, hot water and lighting for all the ofﬁces and residences. The Household seeks to maximize energy-efﬁciency and use energy from renewable resources where possible.

Despite a colder Winter, overall use of energy from fossil fuels has fallen as a result of measures such as the use of energy-efﬁcient condensing boilers at Clarence House, and woodchip boilers at Highgrove, Birkhall and Their Royal Highnesses’ Welsh Residence, Llwynywermod. At Clarence House, there is also an ongoing programme to

55 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 improve window insulation. Other measures include electricity monitors in ofﬁce areas to provide feedback on electricity use, “Smart Meters” which also provide detailed information on electricity use, new ultra-low energy LED lights and greater use of electricity purchased from renewable sources.

The Household is also helping its staff reduce their own impact by installing ground-source heat pumps in staff cottages on the Highgrove Estate. Air-source heat pumps have also been ﬁtted at Highgrove. Both use electric pumps to take heat from the ground or air and boost it to higher temperatures, like a refrigerator operating in reverse. They can be more energy-efﬁcient than other forms of heating, providing around four units of heat energy for every unit of electrical energy used.

Finite natural resources

The Household aims to maximize resource efﬁciency and reduce use of non-renewable resources, minimizing waste, and reusing, recycling or composting the remainder where possible.

Water Water use (m3)

Year to 31st March 2009 2008 2007 10,000 Water use m3 m3 m3 8,000 Total measured water use 4,773 8,113 7,548 6,500

£000s £000s £000s 4,000

Operating expenditure 13 15 13 2,000

The water used at the Highgrove Home Farm is shown separately. – 2007 2008 2009

3 As well as the normal day-to-day water use of the offices and residences, there are Measured water use, m (‘000s litres). uses that are more specific to the Household, such as catering for receptions, and the gardens at Highgrove and Clarence House. Measured water use has fallen by about 40 per cent this year from the previous year. The reduction in water use is due largely to water conservation measures at Highgrove – rainwater from roofs and grey-water from bathrooms is collected for re-use in the gardens and in residences. In addition, rainwater is collected to flush the lavatories in the Orchard Room at Highgrove.

Paper and waste Paper use per staff member (kg) Year to 31st March 2009 2008 2007

Paper use kg kg kg 60

Paper use per member of staff (FTE) 46 44 56 50

Paper use is monitored as part of the Household’s efforts to reduce use of ﬁnite natural 30 resources. It includes ofﬁce paper and all notepaper. Paper use per full-time equivalent 20 staff member has increased slightly this year as a result of correspondence relating to The Prince’s 60th birthday. Paper use is reduced through initiatives including increased 10 use of electronic communications and double-sided printing. – 2007 2008 2009 The Household recycles a range of materials including paper, cardboard, plastic and glass bottles and cans. In the coming year it is planned to improve the monitoring of waste production.

Food As well as producing food at Home Farm, the gardens are also used to grow organic fruit and vegetables. The garden at Clarence House produces cabbages, lettuces, beans and beetroot, to reduce food miles. A wide range of produce is also grown in the garden at Highgrove. Some of it is used for sale locally and through the website. Where possible, food waste is composted in the gardens or fed to the chickens. In the coming year it is planned to introduce measures to increase the amount of food waste that is composted.

56 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 INCOME, EXPENDITURE AND STAFF

CO2e (Tonnes) Home Farm

3,000 Year to 31st March 2009 2008 2007 2,500

CO2 equivalent emissions tonnes tonnes tonnes 2,000 Energy use 299 280 297 1,500 Methane and nitrous oxide from livestock 1,000 and manure management 2,043 2,083 1,941

500 Crops and other sources 148 164 220 Woodland (149) (149) (149) 0 Total CO 2 equivalent emissions 2,341 2,378 2,309 -500 2007 2008 2009 Energy MWh MWh MWh Woodland – carbon storage Electricity – all sources 240 213 197 Crops and other sources Gas and oil 891 886 812 Livestock and manure management Energy Total energy use 1,131 1,099 1,009

CO2e emissions (and storage) in tonnes by Other natural resources m3 m3 m3 key sources/sink. Water use, 000s litres 15,936 15,692 19,570

The table shows estimated greenhouse gas emissions and storage, energy use and water use. Nitrous oxide emissions from grassland have been excluded due to uncertainties over their measurement. This has resulted in a reduction in stated emissions from “crops and other sources”.

Home Farm at Highgrove has been run as an organic farm since 1985 and has dairy, beef, sheep and pigs as well as arable and vegetable production. It aims to promote sustainable farming through practices including no use of artiﬁcial pesticides and fertilisers, lower-intensity rearing methods and careful management of ﬁelds and hedges to protect biodiversity.

The net greenhouse gas emissions associated with Home Farm have been estimated for this year at 2,341 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. These calculations are based on a standard methodology for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in the UK, using information about livestock numbers, crop production and basic management practices. It is difﬁcult to be accurate when measuring farm emissions and the methodology is designed to provide a reasonable estimate for management purposes. The comparatives have been restated from those previously published due to reﬁnements in the accounting methodology, and updated to some of the conversion factors used.

The increase in reported electricity use last year was largely due to the inclusion of a new building to store crops which were previously stored off-site.

In order to help reduce energy use, a solar water-heating panel is used in the dairy together with a high-efficiency milk cooling system. Artificial fertilizers are energy-intensive to produce and transport and by not using them significant energy (and carbon) savings are made.

57 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 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 Rainforests Project – 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 Senior Deputy Private Secretary with the Director, The Prince’s Charities – Programme policy and supervision of engagements – US Charitable Foundation – Scotland, including The Prince of Wales’s – Duchy Home Farm Scottish organizations – Health, including The Prince’s Foundation for Paddy Harverson Integrated Health Communications Secretary, assisted by Patrick Harrison, Press Secretary – Education, including The Prince’s Teaching Institute – All media matters for The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William and Prince Harry and the Duchy of Cornwall Wing Commander Richard Pattle Master of the Household, assisted by Andrew Farquharson, Deputy Master of the Household – Overall supervision of the programme and logistics Sir Tom Shebbeare Director, The Prince’s Charities, assisted by Mike Lake, Deputy Director – The Equerry’s Office – Strategy for, and overall co-ordination of, The Prince’s – Overall supervision of receptions and entertaining Charities, including, in particular, fund-raising – Personal and domestic staff and governance – All residences and gardens – Managing Director of The Prince’s Charities Foundation – Security and confidentiality – Social responsibility Clive Alderton Deputy Private Secretary – Foreign and Commonwealth affairs, including overseas tours – International development – 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

58 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 Manon Williams Jonathan Hellewell Deputy Private Secretary Assistant Private Secretary – Wales, including The Prince of Wales’s Welsh organizations – The Prince’s Trust – The built environment, including The Prince’s Foundation – Northern Ireland for the Built Environment – Disability – Heritage, including The Prince’s Regeneration Trust – The elderly, including PRIME – The Prince’s Drawing School – Correspondence Department, managed by – The Arts, including Arts & Business and The Prince’s Claudia Holloway, Head of Correspondence Foundation for Children & the Arts – PRIME-Cymru Major Will Mackinlay Equerry Benet Northcote – The Armed Forces and Veterans Deputy Private Secretary – Programme, diary, travel and logistics – Responsible business, including Business in the – Investitures Community, The Prince’s Business and the Environment – The Emergency Services Programme, In Kind Direct and the UK Corporate Leaders – Sport, explorers and adventurers Group on Climate Change – Agriculture and rural affairs – The natural environment and ﬁshing Virginia Carington Assistant Master of the Household – The Royal Collection Amanda MacManus – Personal letters and private engagements Assistant Private Secretary (part-time) – Organization and co-ordination of The Duchess of Cornwall’s engagements, charitable work and diary THE HOUSEHOLD OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY Joy Camm Assistant Private Secretary (part-time) – Organization and co-ordination of The Duchess of Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton Private Secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry Cornwall’s engagements, charitable work and diary – Advising the Princes on their careers, charitable patronages and other matters, and organizing Sophie Densham ofﬁcial engagements Assistant Private Secretary – Organization and co-ordination of The Duchess of Cornwall’s engagements, charitable work and diary

59 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 THE PRINCE’S CHARITIES

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 were www.princes-foundation.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7613 8500 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 Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and innovative perspective and seek to address areas www.cpsl.cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1223 768850 of previously unmet need. Scottish Business in the Community www.sbcscot.com Tel: +44 (0) 131 451 1100 To find out more visit: www.princescharities.org In Kind Direct www.inkinddirect.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7714 3930 Arts & Business OPPORTUNITY AND ENTERPRISE www.artsandbusiness.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7378 8143 The Prince’s Trust HEALTH www.princes-trust.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7543 1234 Freephone: 0800 842 842 The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust www.fih.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7024 5755 www.psybt.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 141 248 4999 The Prince’s Youth Business International SOCIAL ENTERPRISE www.youth-business.org Tel: +44 (0) 3326 2060 Duchy Originals PRIME www.duchyoriginals.com Tel: +44 (0) 20 8831 6800 www.primeinitiative.org.uk North Highland Initiative www.primebusinessclub.com For enquiries please email: Tel: +44 (0) 20 8765 7833 Robert Gray ([email protected]) PRIME–Cymru www.mey-selections.com (for product) www.prime-cymru.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1550 721 813 www.northhighlandsscotland.com (for tourism) The British Asian Trust Highgrove Enterprises www.britishasiantrust.org www.highgroveshop.com Tel: +44 (0) 845 521 4342 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7024 5646 or +44 (0) 20 7024 5739 Traditional Arts Ltd www.traditionalarts.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7033 4950 EDUCATION Turquoise Mountain Arts The Prince’s Drawing School www.turquoisemountainarts.af Tel: +93 (0) 795 27 60 45 www.princesdrawingschool.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 7613 8568 The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts 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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