The Prince's Charities Foundation
We donate our profits to The Prince’s Charities Foundation, which was founded by The Prince of Wales in 1979. The Prince established the Foundation to enable him to help support a variety of charitable causes and projects. In addition to receiving funds from Duchy Originals, The Prince’s Charities Foundation also derives further income through royalties from the sale of lithographs of The Prince of Wales’s watercolours, from charitable donations, from retail sales at the Highgrove Shop in Tetbury and from books written by His Royal Highness, such as “The Garden at Highgrove”.The Prince’s Charities Foundation receives an ever-increasing number of requests for assistance, which are considered on a regular basis by The Prince of Wales and the Foundation’s trustees. Over 100 charitable programmes benefited from the £4 million donated to the Foundation in the year 2007-08. Donations are made to a wide range of charities including organisations working with environmental issues, health and hospices, community and welfare, education and training, heritage and the built environment, charities supporting servicemen and women and towards people affected by natural disasters.
More information about The Prince’s Charities Foundation can be found at Princes Charities Foundation In addition to supporting causes that are brought to the attention of The Prince of Wales and the Trustees of The Prince’s Charities Foundation, the Foundation also supports the charities which make up The Prince’s Charities.
The Prince's Charities
'The Prince's Charities' is a group of not-for-profit organisations of which The Prince of Wales is President; 17 of the 19 Charities were founded personally by The Prince. The group is the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the United Kingdom, raising over £120 million annually. The organisations are active across a broad range of areas including opportunity and enterprise, the built environment, responsible business, education and health. The charities reflect The Prince of Wales’s long-term and innovative perspective and seek to address areas of previously unmet need.
OPPORTUNITY AND ENTERPRISE
The Prince’s Trust
Perhaps the most well known of The Prince’s Charities, The Prince’s Trust helps change young lives in the UK. It gives practical support to 14-30 year olds, helping them overcome their barriers and get their lives back on track.
Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust
The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust was launched in 1989 to help young people in Scotland, however challenging their background, achieve their full potential through self-employment. Over 9000 individuals have been supported across Scotland with a total investment of almost £30m.
PRIME
PRIME helps people aged 50+, and rejected by the labour market, to find a way back into work, dignity and self-sufficiency by setting up their own businesses or social enterprises.
PRIME-Cymru
PRIME-Cymru takes a holistic approach to assist economically inactive people in Wales aged 50+. It provides individually tailored support getting people into employment, self-employment or volunteering.
EDUCATION
The Prince’s Drawing School
The Prince’s Drawing School is an education charity dedicated to teaching drawing from observation. Founded in 2000 by HRH The Prince of Wales to encourage a new generation of artists, each week over 600 students of all ages, background and abilities attend the school.
The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts
Through its post-graduate (MA and PHD) and outreach programmes, the school communicates the times and universal values of the traditional arts and crafts of the world, thereby ‘building bridges’ between cultures.
The Prince’s Teaching Institute
The Prince’s Teaching Institute works with teachers, schools, Cambridge University, leading academics and writers to recapture the idea that teaching is about the acquisition of knowledge and not just skills. Look out for PTI accreditation at a secondary school near you!
The Prince's Foundation for Children and The Arts
The Prince's Foundation for Children and The Arts is a national educational charity. Its mission is to inspire and educate children by introducing them to the very best of the arts.
HEALTH
The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health
The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health works towards a culture of health and wellbeing where people are empowered to take greater responsibility for their health – where orthodox and complementary health practitioners collaborate to offer patients choice.
THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment teaches and practises timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing and building. It educates through live building projects, educational conferences and a popular craft apprenticeship programme.
The Prince’s Regeneration Trust
The Prince’s Regeneration Trust works with communities throughout the United Kingdom to ensure the preservation, regeneration and re-use of buildings of architectural or heritage value which are at risk.
Turquoise Mountain Foundation
The Turquoise Mountain Foundation is restoring part of the historic commercial centre of Kabul and has established Afghanistan’s first centre for Traditional Arts and Architecture which teaches woodwork, calligraphy and ceramics while developing sustainable markets for Afghan crafts.
RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Business in the Community
Business in the Community is a unique movement in the UK of over 750 member companies. Its purpose is to inspire, engage, support and challenge business in continually improving its impact in the community, environment, marketplace and workplace.
Scottish Business in the Community
Scottish Business in the Community was established to support, broker and challenge businesses to continually improve their positive impact on society to ensure a successful and sustainable economy. With its members and partners, SBC is working collectively to deliver a positive and sustainable impact on the key issues for Scotland: Employability, Education, Health and the Environment.
The Prince of Wales's International Business Leaders Forum
The IBLF enables the world’s top business people and development leaders to address the social impacts of globalisation. It helps companies to find business solutions to development challenges in more than 60 countries.
The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Programme
The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Programme is the premier executive learning programme on sustainability. Developed and run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry it now operations in six locations internationally with 1300 alumni.
In Kind Direct
In Kind Direct improves lives by redistributing surplus new goods donated by businesses to charities needing essential items to sustain their operations or to give to people they serve.
Arts & Business
Arts & Business helps business people to support the arts and the arts to inspire business people. For thirty two years, Arts & Business has brought the commercial and cultural worlds together to deliver an unrivalled range of programmes, services and expertise to both sectors. At the heart of its work is a belief that the passion and acumen of the private sector can increase access to the excellence of the arts. The power and impact of the arts is something that is not just of value to the creative industries, but to UK companies more broadly.
More information about The Prince's Charities can be found at Princes Charties Foundation
