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The Prince's Trust

The Prince's Trust exists to help young people to overcome their barriers and get their lives working. Through practical support including training, mentoring and financial assistance, it helps 14-30 year-olds to realize their potential and transform their lives. The Trust focuses its efforts on young people who have struggled at school, have been in care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law. Since the charity was founded by The Prince of Wales in 1976, it has helped more than half a million young people. The Prince’s Trust has operations in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and every English region.

Website: www.princes-trust.org.uk

The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust

The sole aim of the Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust, a lender of last resort, is to help young people in Scotland, however challenging their background, achieve their full potential through self-employment; with the provision of a comprehensive support package of pre-start
counselling, funding and an extensive aftercare programme. This support package is delivered via 17 regional offices and over 600 volunteers who act as panel members and aftercare advisers. Since the Trust was launched in 1989, over 8,200 young people have been helped to start up around 6,900 businesses

Website: www.psybt.org.uk

Prime and Prime Cymru

PRIME and PRIME-Cymru are the only UK organizations promoting and supporting self-employment and enterprise for people aged 50+. They raise awareness of enterprise
among older people, campaign for improvements, signpost or provide free business start-up support, offer loans of last resort or guidance towards funding and undertake research into best practice. PRIME and PRIME-Cymru offer the over-50s a route to financial independence,
scope to use their experience and skills and a chance to contribute to their communities.

Website: www.primeinitiative.org.uk

The Prince's Drawing School

Created in 2000, The Prince’s Drawing School is an educational charity dedicated to teaching drawing. The faculty of over 35 practising artists works on the premise that drawing is a living, evolving language. The studios are in a converted warehouse in Shoreditch, the heart of London’s East End creative community.
As well as the MA level and bursary funded Drawing Year, the school runs a broad range of courses including master classes in the life room, in national museums and out and about, as well as holiday workshops and community programmes. Every week 400 students attend classes at the school.

Website: www.princesdrawingschool.org

The Prince's School of Traditional Arts

The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts aims to teach Arts and Crafts skills which have profound roots in all the major faith traditions. Its courses are centred on its Visual Islamic and
Traditional Arts Programmes, post-graduate masters and doctoral degrees, which are validated by the University of Wales. The School’s courses combine theory and practice.
They include geometry, Islamic architecture, icon painting, tilemaking, Islimi/Arabesque, stained glass and mosaic craft. It is also developing outreach and education programmes
for Muslim countries and younger people, establishing vocational courses to teach craft, and building links with institutions, especially in the Arab and Asian worlds.

Website: www.princesschooltraditionalarts.org

The Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Health

Integrated health is an approach which combines the best of conventional and complementary medicine, with a focus on the whole person and the encouragement of
good health as well as the treatment of illness.
The Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health encourages greater collaboration between conventional and complementary practitioners and facilitates the development of integrated healthcare. The Foundation was recently awarded a three-year £900,000 grant by
the Department of Health for its work in supporting the regulation of complementary therapies. In 2005, The Foundation published a new guide that provides practical information to help people across the UK find safe, well regulated complementary healthcare practitioners.

Website: www.fihealth.org.uk

The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment seeks to put people at the centre of the design process. It teaches – by demonstration and through strategic partnerships – that the timeless principles of traditional urban design are key to creating healthy and prosperous
communities in a way compatible with people’s needs and aspirations for their homes, streets and neighbourhoods. The Foundation is involved in approximately twenty projects ranging from regeneration, to urban extensions and brownfield developments. The Foundation engages in projects to create living examples of sustainable communities and to educate professionals through practice-based learning.

Website: www.princes-foundation.org

The Prince's Regeneration Trust

The Prince’s Regeneration Trust promotes the rescue and regeneration of redundant buildings of historic and architectural importance. It achieves this through The Prince of Wales’s Phoenix Trust, a building preservation trust working with large buildings at risk; and
Regeneration Through Heritage, an enterprise initiative which advises community-based groups. The Prince’s Regeneration Trust, at any one time, is involved with around 20 projects across the United Kingdom.

Website: www.princes-regeneration.org

Business in the Community

Business in the Community is the largest and one of the oldest organisations promoting corporate responsibility. It has operations in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and
every English region as well as partnerships internationally. Its 750+ member companies are committed to working together to improve their impact on society, whether on the environment, or in the market place, the workplace and the community. As well as being an active President, The Prince of Wales has personally initiated several major programmes including Seeing is Believing, Rural Action, Pro Help, Business Action on Homelessness and Cares.

Website: www.bitc.org.uk

Scottish Business in the Community

Scottish Business in the Community (SBC) enables companies to make their impact on society as positive and productive as possible, while gaining tangible business benefits. SBC is led by a group of member companies committed to the promotion of responsible business practice in Scotland.
A network of multi-sector contacts and over twenty years experience makes SBC the logical route through which the Scottish business community responds to the challenge of improving its impact on society.

Website: www.sbcscot.com

The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)

The IBLF was formed in 1990 by the Prince of Wales as an international, business-led, not-for-profit membership organisation focused on responsible business and development. IBLF has established a strong reputation well beyond its current 70+ member companies, with
national development agencies, relevant international and UN institutions and non-governmental organisations.
The IBLF has initiatives in over 50 countries, including the least-developed and emerging economies, that make a significant impact on education, health, environment, enterprise, business standards and performance.

Website: www.iblf.org

HRH The Prince of Wales's Business and the Environment Programme

The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme was established in 1994 and is run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry. The Programme helps senior executives explore the business case for sustainable development and integrate
sustainability principles into their organisations.
Business leaders and representatives from the public sector and NGOs participate in one of the seminars held each year in Cambridge, New York, Salzburg and Cape Town. The Programme has introduced over 1,000 executives from over 400 organisations in more than
30 countries to the sustainability debate.

Website: www.cpi.cam.ac.uk

In Kind Direct

In Kind Direct belongs to the Responsible Business and The Natural Environment Group.

Arts & Business

Arts and Business has been under the patronage of The Prince of Wales for 18 years, helping business people to support the arts, and the arts to inspire business people. Arts & Business secures funding and resources for the arts from business through a range of programmes and services.
The charity has a membership of over 450 companies and over 1,200 arts organisations. In 1976, the year Arts & Business was established, the figure for annual business support of the arts stood at £600,000. The figure for 2003 was over £120 million.

Website: www.aandb.org.uk

The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts

The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts aims to give children and young people the opportunity to get involved with the very best of the arts. The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts (initially managed through Arts & Business) was established by The Prince of Wales in 2002 and by April 2005, over 500,000 children had already benefitted from its work.
The charity believes that the arts transform lives and are an essential component in shared humanity. The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts specifically targets children who would not otherwise have the opportunity to be involved in the arts.

Website: www.childrenandarts.org.uk

Duchy Originals

Since its establishment in 1990 by The Prince of Wales, Duchy Originals has grown to become one of the UK’s leading organic and natural food and drink brands.

Working with some of the country’s top food producers and manufacturers, the range now includes over 140 different products. It has also extended into non-food products, under the Duchy Collection label, with a range of outdoor furniture and a collection of hair and body care products made with natural plant extracts and infused with organic essential oils.

Today the brand continues to reflect The Prince’s commitment to the virtuous circle of providing natural, high quality products, while helping to protect and sustain the countryside and wildlife.

Duchy Originals has made a profit of over £1million for the second year running. All profits are donated to The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation (UK).

Website: www.duchyoriginals.com