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 02 | 09 INTRODUCTION PAGE 14 SUPPORTING THE QUEEN 02 | 03 Summary 04 | 05 Engagements and activities 06 | 07 Environmental responsibility 08 | 09 Duchy of Cornwall 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 42 | 57 INCOME, EXPENDITURE AND STAFF 44 Income and expenditure account 44 | 45 Income and funding 46 | 47 Expenditure 48 | 52 Staff 53 Annual visits 53 Official costs analysed by expenditure category 54 | 57 Sustainability account 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. 02 | TRH ANNUAL REVIEW 2009 INTRODUCTION 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.