The Office of The Prince of Wales
Clarence House
London
SW1A 1BA
www.princeofwales.gov.uk
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HRH The Prince of Wales
Annual Review
2004
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Cover picture caption, left.
The Prince of Wales in India.
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Cover picture caption, middle.
The Prince of Wales meets students
of The Prince’s Drawing School
during his visit to Smithfield Market,
London. The Prince was viewing
the work of the students who were
making architectural sketches of the
market.
Cover picture caption, right.
The Prince of Wales at
Blackhaugh Farm, Scotland.
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Contents
Part I
First Annual Review
Introduction
Summary
Engagements and Activities
Future Developments
Part II
Supporting the Queen
The United Kingdom
Overseas
The Armed Services
Part III
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Income, Expenditure and Staff
Income & Expenditure Account
Income and Funding
Expenditure
Staff
Annual Visits
Official Costs
Corporate Social Responsibility
Appendix
Core Organisations
Acknowledgements
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Promoting and Protecting
Acting as a Catalyst
Rural Communities
The Church of England and Ethnic Minorities
Tourism
Part V
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Charitable Entrepreneur
£100m Raised for charity
Youth Opportunity
Health
Education
Responsible Business
The Natural Environment
The Built Environment
The Arts
Part IV
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First Annual
Review 2004
Introduction
This first Annual Review is intended to give an
overview of The Prince of Wales’s official and
charitable activities, and to provide information
about his income and official expenditure for the
year to 31st March 2004.
In addition to this introduction, the Review has
four sections; one devoted to each of the three
principal elements of The Prince of Wales’s role
and activities, and the fourth providing a detailed
account of how his activities and office are
financed and outlining the responsibilities of his
senior staff.
While there is no established constitutional role
for the Heir to The Throne, The Prince of Wales
seeks to do all he can to use his unique position
to make a difference for the better in the United
Kingdom and internationally. The way in which
His Royal Highness does so varies over time and
according to circumstances, but it can, in simple
terms, be divided into three parts.
(i) Undertaking royal duties in support of
The Queen. This involves supporting The
Queen in her role as a focal point for national
pride, unity and allegiance and 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.
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(ii) Working as a charitable entrepreneur.
The Prince of Wales has been prescient in
identifying charitable need and setting up
and driving forward charities to meet it, and
his 17 core charities alone require His Royal
Highness to assist directly or indirectly with
raising around £100 million a year.
(iii) Promoting and protecting national
traditions, virtues and excellence. This
includes helping to ensure that views held
by many people which otherwise might not
be heard receive some exposure. His Royal
Highness does this through letters to and
meetings with Government Ministers and
other people of influence, by giving speeches,
writing articles and participating in television
programmes. In doing so, he is always careful
to avoid issues which are politically contentious.
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Summary
The film has now been seen by an estimated
10.5 million people, a record for a BBC natural
history programme. The Prince of Wales also
During the year, The Prince of Wales undertook
517 official engagements. He visited 59 counties contributed to ‘Restoration’, the popular BBC
Two television series about the country’s
and towns in the UK, and carried out 82 official
architectural heritage.
engagements overseas during working tours
in Russia, India, Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia
These facts and figures do not reflect the
to promote the country’s diplomatic and
large part of The Prince of Wales’s working
commercial interests; he met an estimated
time devoted to going through the huge volume
10,000 people during these engagements and
of correspondence and other reading material
was seen by many more. He also received or
which he receives every week. In addition to
entertained 9,000 official guests at Clarence
his official briefings and meetings, His Royal
House, Highgrove, Birkhall and other royal
Highness also spends considerable time
residences.
working with members of his Household,
trustees and directors of his charities and
His Royal Highness’s 17 core charities, which
others to manage his programme and
are listed in the Appendix, require funding
charities, and to take forward the many
of around £100 million a year. They employ
initiatives with which he is involved.
1,600 people, with thousands of volunteers
also providing invaluable support. Last year,
In July 2003, the refurbishment of Clarence
The Prince of Wales increased the number
House was completed. The total cost amounted
of charities of which he is President or Patron
to £6.068 million, of which the Property Services
to 363. Charities of which His Royal Highness
Grant-In-Aid paid £4.508 million and The Prince
became President or Patron during the year
of Wales £1.560 million. The house was opened
included the National Trust for Scotland and the
to the public for the first time during August,
British Red Cross, which he took over from the
September and part of October and was visited
late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
by 47,000 people; it will be open again this
August and September.
The Prince of Wales attended over 150 formal
briefings and meetings, and received over
The Household’s senior management team
33,000 letters from members of the public
was strengthened during the year by the
and wrote over 2,000 letters personally, with a
appointment of a Communications Secretary,
further 10,000 written on His Royal Highness’s
a Director and Deputy Director of Charities,
behalf by his Office.
and a Senior Equerry, in order to keep pace
with the development of The Prince of Wales’s
During the year, the Office also dealt with an
official and charitable activities.
estimated 50,000 questions and requests for
information from the media in this country and
The 20% increase in income from the Duchy
overseas. His Royal Highness gave around
of Cornwall (see below) principally reflects
50 major speeches and wrote four published
increased rents from commercial property.
articles, while the television film ”Highgrove:
The increased Grants-In-Aid funding and
A Prince’s Legacy“, about the garden and farm
official expenditure reflect the refurbishment
at Highgrove, was broadcast three times.
of Clarence House.
Year to 31st March
Income from the Duchy of Cornwall
Funding from Grants-In-Aid
and Government Departments
Official expenditure
Tax and personal expenditure
Capital expenditure less depreciation, loan
repayments and transfers to reserves
Net cash surplus (deficit)
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2004
£000s
2003
£000s
11,913
9,943
4,148
16,061
3,102
13,045
(10,095)
(4,406)
(8,729)
(3,843)
(1,442)
118
(802)
(329)
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Engagements and Activities
Statistics, of course, only tell a small part
of the story, and the following examples of
engagements and developments during the past
year are to provide a fuller picture of the range
of The Prince of Wales’s work.
Visits by The Prince of Wales to meet
servicemen and women in Iraq and their
families in this country
In March 2003, The Prince met families of
those serving in the Gulf when he visited army
bases at Dover and Colchester. In February
2004, he visited servicemen and women in
Iraq. The Prince praised British troops for their
work and met more than 200 soldiers from
the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment,
soldiers described by His Royal Highness as a
“remarkable bunch of people.”
Holyrood Week in Scotland and visits to
promote the country’s tourist attractions
In June, The Prince of Wales visited a range of
Scottish tourist attractions to promote British
Tourism Day, including Linlithgow Palace
in West Lothian and the House for an Art
Lover in Glasgow. The Prince was in Scotland
for his annual week’s stay at the Palace of
Holyroodhouse, and as well as promoting
tourism, His Royal Highness also opened a
new Macmillan Cancer Centre in Melrose,
met farmers in the Borders, attended a special
ceremony at Europe’s biggest mosque in
Glasgow, and paid a flying visit to the Isle of
Mull where he dropped in on the island’s famous
bakery and butcher shops.
Launch of the Affordable Housing Initiative
In June, The Prince of Wales launched an
initiative to encourage landowners to make land
available for affordable housing, and companies
to look at the possibility of using disused land
and/or existing buildings for the same purpose.
The Housing Corporation, the Countryside
Agency, Business in the Community and the
Country Land and Business Association are all
partners in the initiative, and with The Duke of
Westminster, His Royal Highness is now funding
two members of staff to work on the project.
The Prince’s message at the launch was simple:
the futures of villages depend on homes being
available for local people, and schools, pubs,
shops and other services that are integral to
village and community life depend on them.
The Prince of Wales’s visit to India
The Prince of Wales visited The Republic of
India from 28th October to 5th November
2003. The visit focused on heritage and
restoration, sustainable development and
youth entrepreneurship. During his stay, The
Prince visited a water conservation project,
a Bollywood film set, restoration projects in
Rajasthan and the largest slums in Asia on the
outskirts of Mumbai. At the start of his visit,
The Prince said: “It gives me great joy to be
returning to your remarkable country.”
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Far left.
The Prince visits Aldershot military
camp where he met wives of
soldiers serving in the Gulf War.
He was presented with 10 Mallah
garlands by wives of members of
the Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic
Regiment on his departure.
Left.
The Prince on an official visit
to India.
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His Royal Highness hosted his second
Education Summer School for teachers of
English and History
The Prince hosted his second Prince of Wales
Education Summer School in June 2003, aimed
at bringing together teachers of English and
History to debate how their subjects are taught.
This followed a successful pilot course in Devon
in 2002. The free four-day course in Norwich
gave teachers the opportunity to join in sessions
with well-known figures such as poet Seamus
Heaney, playwright Tom Stoppard, novelist PD
James and historians David Starkey, Simon
Schama and Michael Wood.
The visit to Wales in June by
The Prince of Wales and Prince William to
mark Prince William’s 21st birthday
The Prince of Wales and his eldest son received
a warm welcome when they arrived in Wales
in June 2003 to mark Prince William’s 21st
birthday. Thousands of well-wishers turned
out to see the two Princes, who visited the
Anglesey Food Fair and opened the Newport
Action for Single Homeless (NASH) day centre.
Left.
The Prince of Wales, Patron of the
British Wheelchair Sports Foundation,
talks to Paralympic gold medallist
Tanni Grey Thompson at the reopening ceremony of the Stoke
Mandeville Stadium, The National
Centre for Disabled Sport.
The opening of Clarence House to the public
for the first time
Clarence House, the official residence of The
Prince of Wales in London, opened to the public
for the first time in August 2003. Clarence
House was the London home of Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from
1953 to 2002 and underwent an extensive
refurbishment in 2003.
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built
Environment conference
In November 2003, The Prince of Wales hosted
a conference at The Prince’s Foundation for
the Built Environment in Shoreditch, London,
to discuss ways in which the building and
regeneration of urban areas could be improved.
The Prince gave a keynote speech to set out his
vision for the creation of vibrant and flourishing
communities and the Foundation’s role in turning
this vision into reality. The conference was
attended by the Deputy Prime Minister, John
Prescott, and a wide range of industry experts
and Government officials.
Left and middle.
Clarence House exterior and interior.
Left.
The Queen and The Prince of Wales
leave the Prince’s Drawing School, in
Shoreditch, east London.
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His Royal Highness meets author
PD James at his second Education
Summer School for teachers of
English and History.
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Prince William meets well-wishers
outside Bangor Station, Wales.
Left.
Prince William and The Prince
of Wales visiting Newport Action
for Single Homeless (NASH) in
south Wales.
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Attending the first British Citizenship
ceremony
The Prince of Wales welcomed 10 different
nationalities to Britain at the first British
Citizenship ceremony, held in Brent Town Hall,
London, in February 2004. At the ceremony,
which was also attended by the Home Secretary,
David Blunkett, The Prince presented 19 people,
including three children, with certificates of
citizenship. He wished them well and said:
“I very much hope that this ceremony has added
something to the significance of acquiring British
citizenship and that it has reinforced your belief,
if indeed any reinforcement is required, that you
belong here and are very welcome.”
The establishment of The Prince‘s Drawing
School and The Prince’s School of Traditional
Arts as separate charities
These two organisations set up by The Prince
of Wales, under the auspices of The Prince’s
Foundation for the Built Environment, achieved
separate charitable status. His Royal Highness
established The Prince of Wales’s Drawing
School in 2000 to be a centre of excellence
for the teaching, research and practice of
observational drawing. The School of Traditional
Arts was set up by His Royal Highness to
continue the living traditions of the world’s
sacred and traditional art forms.
The achievement for the first time of an
annual profit of £1 million by The Prince of
Wales’s food company Duchy Originals, all
the profits of which are given to charity
Duchy Originals has broken the £1 million
profit barrier and has established itself as one
of the leading quality food brands in the
country. At the heart of the concept is
The Prince of Wales’s desire to create and
sustain a “virtuous circle” for all involved: the
environment benefits from organic production,
farmers receive a proper reward for their work,
customers enjoy high-quality food, and money is
raised for good causes. Since its establishment,
Duchy Originals has donated total profits of £3.5
million to charity.
Party in the Park and Fashion Rocks at
the Royal Albert Hall, which together raised
over £2 million for The Prince’s Trust
Party in the Park 2003 raised more than
£1 million for The Prince’s Trust. Among the
top acts performing were Beyoncé Knowles,
Meatloaf and Busted. In October, The Prince
of Wales joined some of the biggest stars
of pop and fashion at the Royal Albert Hall,
when another £1 million was raised for
The Prince’s Trust.
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Far left.
The Prince meets citizens at the first
British Citizenship ceremony.
Left.
The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts
field trip to Granada, Spain.
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Future Developments
Communications
The Press Office team will be further
strengthened with the appointment of a third
Press Officer, and a number of plans taken
forward, including the publication of this first
Annual Review, regular media briefings at
regional level, and further enhancements to the
official website, www.princeofwales.gov.uk.
The Prince of Wales
During the current year, His Royal Highness will
continue to work on a number of key issues,
focusing particularly on education, health,
protecting the national heritage, and supporting
agriculture and the rural economy. He will also
continue to use The Prince‘s Trust to reach out
to young people who feel alienated from society, Charities
In view of the wide and increasing range of
especially those from the Muslim community.
The Prince of Wales’s work for charity, a small
central charities team was established during
Management
the course of last year, led by the new Director
The Household’s strengthened management
team is now largely in place, although there will of Charities, Sir Tom Shebbeare. The charities
team will develop its role during the current
probably be one or two further appointments
year and provide support and advice to His
during the current financial year to complete
Royal Highness’s charities, in particular the
the team. Initiatives are under way to develop
core 17 charities, on matters such as corporate
further the budgeting procedures and
governance, donations policies and fundraising,
management information systems in order to
planning, and communications. The new team
optimise value for money. There will be further
will also facilitate liaison and synergy between
investment in information technology to enable
the charities, and help with the appointment of
remote access, and work will continue with
chairmen and trustees.
developing an electronic record management
system capable of controlling and recording
the huge paper-flow more consistently and
effectively. In addition, the final reorganisation
of the office accommodation, following The
Prince of Wales’s move to Clarence House,
will be completed. There will also be increased
emphasis on staff training and development.
Far Left.
The Prince meets Big Bruvaz at
Party in the Park.
Left.
A range of products are available
under the Duchy Originals brand.
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Supporting
The Queen
The United Kingdom
The Prince of Wales undertakes a range of
duties in support of The Queen as Head of State.
For example, His Royal Highness presides at
ceremonial occasions, represents and supports
the armed forces in their work for the nation,
undertakes official overseas tours to further
Britain’s interests abroad, and travels around the
country to celebrate community life and bring
people together across all sections of society.
In 2003, The Prince took part in the two State
Visits to Britain, the first by President Vladimir
Putin of Russia in June, and the second by
President George Bush of the United States
in November.
The Prince’s duties also include great domestic
occasions, such as the opening of the Welsh
Assembly Session in June, which he attended in
Cardiff with Her Majesty The Queen. At the
event, The Prince, as he has done before, spoke
in Welsh in recognition of the importance of the
language in the life of the Welsh nation.
Another notable occasion during the year
was His Royal Highness’s participation in
the country’s first ever British Citizenship
ceremony, held at Brent Town Hall in London
in February. 19 people from around the world
received their certificates from The Prince who,
in a brief speech, referred to the best qualities
of Britishness – including “tolerance, good
humour… and a willingness to do things for
others” – and reminded the new citizens of
the importance of making a contribution to
local and national life.
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Recognising those who have done so is a key
element of The Prince’s royal duties, and last
year he represented The Queen at eight of the
23 Investitures held at Buckingham Palace.
Garden parties afford an opportunity for The
Prince to meet hundreds of people who make
a substantial and often largely unrecognised
contribution to the nation. They also allow His
Royal Highness to thank some of the people
who work for the many organisations with
which he is associated as either founder, patron
or supporter. Last year he attended two of the
three annual garden parties in the grounds of
Buckingham Palace, and another at The Palace
of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
Overseas
Every year The Prince’s royal duties take him
abroad representing the country’s interests, and
in 2003-04 he undertook official tours to Russia,
India, Oman, and a Middle East trip to Iraq, Iran
and Saudi Arabia. These overseas visits are
organised with the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office to support national priorities.
In Russia, The Prince’s visit was timed to
coincide with celebrations of the 300th
anniversary of the founding of St Petersburg,
and emphasised the UK’s long naval, cultural
and trading connections with that city. During
his visit he handed over a sail training vessel
donated by the Royal Navy to the Russian
fleet, celebrated 10 years of engagement by his
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
in developing Russsia’s museum and health
services, and highlighted UK and Russian joint
work to assist deprived women and children.
He also visited the extraordinary Solovetsky
Archipelago in the Arctic Circle, where the IBLF
has been helping to restore one of Russia’s
greatest monasteries, which under Communism
had become a notorious labour camp.
The Prince’s first Indian tour in more than a
decade was a highlight of last year. The trip
focused on heritage, development, youth
entrepreneurship, and inter-faith understanding
– each of these themes drawing out the
extraordinary range and depth of the partnership
between the UK and India.
As well as formal meetings with the President
and government in Delhi, which celebrated,
in particular, joint Prince’s Trust work to find
jobs for young people, The Prince looked at
ground-breaking business ventures promoting
co-operation between UK and Indian companies.
In Rajasthan, visits were focused on efforts
to preserve heritage and craft skills, healthcare projects, and community-based low-tech
solutions to address the country’s water
shortage problems. In Mumbai, India’s business
centre, The Prince brought together economists
and industrialists with his International Business
Leaders Forum to discuss Corporate Social
Responsibility. While there, he also looked at
development projects and initiatives to further
naval co-operation.
The Prince at the citizenship
ceremony at Brent Town Hall,
London.
Far left.
The Queen.
Middle right.
The Prince talks to organic farming
enthusiast Dr Vandana Shiva at her
Navdanya Organic Food Store in the Dilli
Haat market in Delhi.
Middle left.
The Prince of Wales visiting a water
project in India.
Far right.
The Prince receives a rose from
15-year-old polio-sufferer Leela Choyal at
an event held at the British charity Polio
Children.
After India, The Prince travelled to Oman, where
he stayed as the guest of the Sultan, with whom
relations have long been close. His programme
again highlighted inter-faith and (with the British
Council’s help) inter-community understanding,
and included breaking the fast at sunset during
Ramadan with the Muslim faithful at Muscat’s
magnificent new mosque. He also looked at
efforts to preserve Oman’s unique architectural
and cultural heritage, and gave his support to
the work of non-governmental organisations
campaigning to advance the cause of women’s
employment and disabled children’s rights.
In addition to these overseas tours, His Royal
Highness works to support the nation’s foreign
policies through a series of meetings at the
Foreign Office’s request in the UK. Over the
year he received more than a dozen heads of
state or their representatives at Clarence House,
entertained senior Commonwealth ministers
and officials, and attended or hosted a series of
events in London.
Iran was another historic trip – the first by a
member of the Royal Family since the 1979
revolution. The Prince paid a short call on
President Khatami in Tehran, but the main focus
was his visit, as President of the British Red
Cross, to Bam to support relief efforts in the
wake of December’s devastating earthquake.
Finally, in Saudi Arabia, he met Crown Prince
Abdullah and senior members of the Saudi
Government, supported victims of terrorism
and promoted projects to encourage greater
participation by all sectors of society in
economic development.
The Prince’s visit to Iraq may have been a first
for a member of the Royal Family, but the trip
was typical of the work he does to support
Britain’s forces. The Prince has close personal
links with the armed services and, having served
in the Royal Navy, knows first-hand the vital role
they undertake for the country and the sacrifices
our servicemen and women make in doing so.
These included: the launch of the centenary
celebrations of the Entente Cordiale, with
Business in the Community and the AngloFrench Chamber of Commerce (which aimed
In February, The Prince made a week’s tour to
to share best practice on corporate support for
the Middle East, travelling to Iraq, Iran and Saudi social projects); the launch of the UK Friends
Arabia. His visit to Basra, where he met soldiers of the Australian Royal Flying Doctors Service;
from several of his regiments, officials from the
an event to honour Polish ex-Servicemen from
Coalition Provisional Authority, and local religious the Second World War; and a gala dinner with
and community leaders, was the first by a
President Musharraf to celebrate the fiftieth
British Royal to Iraq.
anniversary of the Pakistan Society.
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“Everyone here is working flat out to support our colleagues
over in Iran and the surrounding countries. The logistics
team, the fundraisers, the press officers, and the programme
managers are all working together to support our massive aid
effort, and The Prince’s visit will be a real boost to them.”
Sir Nicholas Young, Chief Executive of the British Red Cross on
the visit by The Prince of Wales to Bam, Iran
The Armed Forces
The Prince of Wales holds the ranks
of Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy,
Air Marshal in the Royal Air Force and
Lieutenant General in the Army.
The Prince maintains a special
relationship with twelve Regiments
of the British Army as follows:
The Royal Regiment of Wales
(24th/41st Foot); Colonel-in-Chief
since 1st July 1969
Welsh Guards; Colonel since
1st March 1975
The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment, The
Parachute Regiment, and The Royal
Gurkha Rifles; Colonel-in-Chief since
11th June 1977
The Army Air Corps; Colonel-in-Chief
since 1st March 1992
The Royal Dragoon Guards; Colonel-inChief since 1st July 1992
The Queen’s Own Yeomanry; Royal
Honorary Colonel since 1st July 1992
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and
Camerons); Deputy Colonel-in-Chief
since 1st September 1994
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, The
Kings Regiment and The Black Watch
(Royal Highland Regiment); Colonel-inChief since 1st July 2003
The Prince of Wales arrives by
Chinook helicopter at Basra Airport.
The Prince flew into the city to see
for himself the progress made by
British forces in partnership with local
Iraqis, nearly one year after
the second Gulf War started.
The Prince walks down from
where the earthquake, in the
southern Iranian city of Bam,
destroyed ramparts of the historic
citadel which dominated the city
but was left in ruins.
The Prince is also the Honorary Air
Commodore of Royal Air Force Valley
(since 1993). His Royal Highness also
maintains a special relationship with
Commonwealth forces in Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
The Prince talks with British troops
from the Royal Regiment of Wales
as he leaves Saddam Hussein’s
former palace in the southern Iraqi
city of Basra.
When His Royal Highness had the opportunity
to visit British Forces in Iraq, he made the most
The Prince’s relationship with the armed services of his short stay. As well as meeting soldiers
from his oldest regiment, the Royal Regiment
is based on four themes: promoting the role of
of Wales, The Prince presented the Wilkinson
the armed forces within national life, through
operational visits and ceremonial duties; focusing Sword of Peace to another of his units, the 2nd
Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, for their
on the professionalism and excellence of
efforts in Afghanistan in 2002, and visited Royal
training, a crucial need in the forces; supporting
Air Force personnel based at Basra.
the welfare of service personnel and their
families; and helping to maintain the history and
heritage of the services through regimental links In Britain, The Prince visited three of his units
to see first-hand their preparations prior to
and associations.
deploying to the Gulf, met families of Royal
Navy and Royal Marines personnel at Yeovilton
In a foreword he wrote last year to support
in Somerset, and met Army families at the
the fundraising appeal for the Armed Forces
Memorial, The Prince explained why the services garrisons at Catterick, Colchester, Aldershot and
Bulford, as well as reservists’ families at Paisley.
need the nation’s full support: “We sometimes
The Armed Services
take for granted the expectation that our armed
forces are professional, loyal and dedicated. In
reality our expectation is far exceeded. These
men and women are prepared to give their lives
defending our nation’s interests and the freedom
of others, and yet their sacrifice all too often goes
without recognition. I personally believe we owe
them an enormous debt of gratitude for all
they do.”
The war and subsequent peacekeeping
operations in Iraq have dominated the headlines
this past year and have been a focus for The
Prince’s activities with British forces. Nine
battalions from seven of The Prince’s regiments
have served in Iraq over the past year, and he has
met personnel or their families from all but two.
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Throughout, The Prince kept in close
contact with his units and others serving
in Iraq and the region. His much publicised
correspondence with Lieutenant Colonel Tim
Collins, Commanding Officer of the Royal Irish
Regiment, was one of many letters written in
support of UK forces. Wherever possible, His
Royal Highness offered encouragement to
hose serving, support to the injured and solace
to the bereaved.
The Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s
Cathedral, and a reception for service personnel
and their families at the Guildhall, in October
2003, gave another opportunity for The Prince
to pay tribute to their achievements and
acknowledge their sacrifices.
The Prince of Wales visits Aldershot
military camp where he met wives
of soldiers serving in the Gulf War.
The Prince met Philippa Hunter and
her daughter Heather, who would
not let go of his finger.
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Charitable
Entrepreneur
£100m Raised for Charity
The Prince of Wales has been one of the
country’s leading charitable entrepreneurs since
establishing The Prince’s Trust after leaving
the Royal Navy in 1976. At that time, The
Prince believed that there was a need for an
organisation to help alienated and disadvantaged
young people in the UK turn their often troubled
lives around.
The Trust is now the largest youth charity in the
country and has helped more than half a million
young people. In many ways, The Prince’s Trust
provided a blueprint for His Royal Highness’s
approach to charitable entrepreneurship. He
first identifies a need, then sets up a charity
to address it, before going on to oversee its
strategy and management and raise funds to
support its activities.
To date, 15 of his 17 core charities have been
established in this way. In the course of a year,
The Prince helps raise, directly or indirectly,
around £100 million for these organisations,
as well as providing leadership support and
inspiration for the thousands of staff and
volunteers who work for them. The Prince gives
personally to charity around £2 million a year.
The Prince’s core charities make up the country’s
largest multi-cause charitable enterprise,
the work of which focuses on seven main
areas: Youth Opportunity, Health, Education,
Responsible Business, the Natural Environment,
the Built Environment and the Arts.
Duchy Originals
One of the biggest contributors to
The Prince of Wales’s charities is his
own company, Duchy Originals, which
embodies his commitment to the
virtuous circle of providing natural, highquality food while helping to protect and
sustain the countryside and wildlife. All
of its profits are donated to The Prince
of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.
The range of products includes bread,
biscuits, sausages, bacon, ham, ready
meals, milk, ice cream, preserves,
chocolates, soft drinks, chutneys and
ale, plus a whole range of seasonal
products for Christmas and Easter.
Many of the products are made with
crops grown especially for the brand
at the Home Farm at Highgrove,
often using ancient varieties and
thereby helping to preserve the
country’s gene pool.
There are also non-organic but freerange products, including sausages,
bacon and ham, which are produced
to high animal welfare standards
under the Duchy Selections name.
The company also launched some
fish patés using Marine Stewardship
Council (MSC) certified fish, highlighting
The Prince of Wales’s desire to
encourage sustainable fishing.
The company recently extended its
range to include natural shampoos
and conditioners, as people become
increasingly concerned about what they
put onto their bodies as well as what
they eat. The company also markets
a range of outdoor furniture under the
name Duchy Collection. Each piece is
made by hand in Herefordshire using
sweet chestnut from sustainable
Duchy of Cornwall woodlands.
A range of products are available
under the Duchy Originals brand.
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Youth Opportunity
The Prince’s Trust is His Royal Highness’s
oldest and best-known charity. He set up the
organisation in 1976 with the £7,400 severance
pay he received on leaving the Royal Navy.
Travelling around the country, The Prince
met many young people who appeared to be
suffering from an overpowering lack of selfworth and had little confidence or motivation.
It was a destructive formula and The Prince
resolved to do something to change it.
As he put it at the time: “If I was going to do
anything, it had to be an operation that was able
to take those risks: to trust young people and
to experiment.”
Today, The Trust helps thousands of 14 to 30year-olds every year to realise their potential
and transform their lives by offering practical
support, including training, mentoring and
financial assistance. The charity focuses its
efforts on those who have struggled at school,
been in care, been in trouble with the law, or
are long-term unemployed. It also helps young
people set up their own businesses. Since its
inception, The Trust has helped nearly 58,000
young people start their own companies in
England and Wales.
In recent years, The Prince has asked The Trust
to identify and help “the hardest to reach”
– those young people who live on the fringes of
society and who seem to have disappeared off
the radar screens of most social care agencies.
Just before Christmas, His Royal Highness
watched proudly as one young person helped
by the Trust, Kevin Johnston, captivated a
room full of Members of Parliament by telling
them the story of his life in the most candid
and eloquent terms. As The Prince said when
Kevin received The Pride of Britain Prince’s Trust
Young Achiever Award: “Kevin is an inspiration
to all of us, particularly those facing seemingly
insurmountable barriers and those who feel
that they have nothing to offer. I cannot tell you
how proud I am of Kevin, and it gives me more
pleasure than you can possibly imagine to see
the achievements of this very special young man
recognized in this way.”
The Prince plays a keen part in the development
of new programmes at The Trust. In the past
year, the charity has been developing a new
initiative called “xl clubs”, tailored to help those
still at school but at risk of exclusion. There
are now over 800 xl clubs operating in schools
throughout the country, and in December The
Prince visited one of the most successful, based
at Haggerston School in Tower Hamlets, London.
At the school, he met club members from Years
10 and 11 who talked about some of the projects
on which they were working, and discussed
barriers to learning in their communities,
including the use of drugs, knives, guns
and alcohol.
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“When I started The Trust, what I wanted to do was to make
an investment in the future. I do think that our success
demonstrates that by giving young people that all-important
self-confidence and sense of self-worth, they can make a
success of their lives. We can help to uncover the talent or ability
which I believe every young person has, and then enable them to
play their full part in their own community.”
The Prince of Wales, January 2004
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Kevin Johnston
The development of xl clubs reflects The
Prince’s determination for The Trust to
remain relevant in the midst of the changing
challenges that young people face. In
particular, he believes that the charity’s
programmes must become more skillsbased, so that young people can be given
opportunities to “get into” skill areas where
their particular talents can be developed.
These new “get into” programmes will
become increasingly available to young
people involved with The Trust, in areas as
diverse as cooking and construction. Tackling
the national skills shortage is a key aim of
today’s Trust.
Glaswegian Kevin Johnston, winner
of this year’s Prince’s Trust Young
Achiever Award, was just one of
those young men whose lives had
seemingly reached rock bottom. His
is a remarkable story of fortitude and
determination. After a desperately
difficult start in life, he became addicted
to drugs, spent time in prison and,
eventually, having lost contact with his
friends and family, became homeless.
This could have been the final chapter
of an all-too-familiar tale had it not been
for Kevin’s own strength of character
and the support of The Trust.
Kevin took the decision to enrol on one
of the charity’s personal development
programmes, where he not only grew
in self-confidence and developed a
sense of self-worth, but discovered an
aptitude for helping other young people
turn around their lives.
Another successful initiative for young
people has been the programmes offering
work experience to young offenders in cities
across the UK, which are run by a partnership
between Business in the Community and
The Prince’s Trust. The success of these
schemes echoes the achievements of BITC’s
programme at Reading Prison, where young
offenders are offered apprenticeships at
National Grid Transco. The apprenticeship
scheme has grown to include more than 90
young offenders, and the recidivism rate,
normally 78 per cent, has been reduced to
just 8 per cent for those on the programme.
Kevin is now drug-free and is forging
a successful new career in youth-care
work. By deciding to make a difference
in his own community, Kevin has
created what The Prince of Wales calls
a “virtuous circle” – having rebuilt his
own life with The Trust’s help, he is
now determined to make life better
for others.
Far left.
The Prince speaks with
singer Beyoncé during the
reception at the “Fashion
Rocks” concert and
fashion show.
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Left.
The Prince meets the pop band
Blazin’ Squad during the ‘Party
in the Park’ event in Hyde Park.
Below.
The Prince is presented with
an Arsenal shirt by club captain
Patrick Vieira as he visits Arsenal
FC’s Highbury stadium in north
London with Kevin Johnston, to
celebrate the sixth anniversary of
The Prince’s Trust Football Initiative.
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Health
The Prince of Wales has long been involved with
a wide variety of healthcare organisations which
he helps with personal support, funding and
regular visits to hospitals and hospices.
At the heart of his approach is the concept of
integrated healthcare. This is a system where
patients, protected by a sound regulatory
environment and the support of the National
Health Service, have access not just to
conventional medical treatment but to a wide
range of complementary care and therapy, such
as acupuncture, homeopathy, massage and
herbal medicine.
The consultation document was a result of the
efforts of two working groups established by
the FIH and the Department of Health, and will
lead to proposals for regulation of these two
important areas being brought forward by the
Government this year.To emphasise his support
for integrated healthcare, The Prince last year
visited a leading integrated GP Practice in
Devon, where patients have access to a range of
complementary approaches, a clinic in Waltham
Forest offering massage and homeopathy
alongside conventional treatments, and an
acupuncture and Chinese herbal medical centre
at the Gateway Clinic in Lambeth.
Aside from his work with the FIH, The Prince
also spent time last year supporting healthcare
organisations of which he is President or Patron,
including Marie Curie, Macmillan Cancer Relief,
the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, Breakthrough
Breast Cancer and the Haven Trust. This year
these groups, along with others, will be taking
part in a major conference on cancer care being
organised by the FIH in London.
To help put this theory into practice, and after
nearly 25 years of interest and involvement in
the field of holistic medicine, eight years ago His
Royal Highness set up The Prince of Wales’s
Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH). Its
main aim is to help provide safe, effective and
efficient forms of medical treatment to patients
and their families by supporting the development
His Royal Highness also follows developments
and delivery of integrated healthcare, especially
by encouraging conventional and complementary in public health closely, and last year, in response
to a series of reports about the growing problem
practitioners to work together.
of allergies in the UK, he wrote an article for
The Guardian newspaper. In it, The Prince called
The development of the FIH’s work comes at
for an urgent examination of the resources
a time when public interest in complementary
available to deal with the allergies epidemic,
medicine is growing (surveys show that 75
alongside consideration of the role for integrated
per cent of people would like complementary
approaches in tackling it. The article attracted
treatments to be available on the NHS), and the
considerable
media interest and reaction from
Government is taking an active approach to the
within
the
industry,
and in doing so helped
issue. For example, the Government last year
highlight
the
growing
concern about the rise of
published its consultation document on the
allergic
illnesses.
regulation of acupuncture and herbal medicines
in the UK.
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“As Patron, his unstinting support of the Bristol Approach to
cancer care has been invaluable, and his great advocacy of a
more integrated approach to healthcare has our full support.”
Christopher Head, Chief Executive of Bristol Cancer Help Centre
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The Gateway Clinic
The award-winning Gateway Clinic at
Lambeth Hospital is pioneering the
provision of complementary medicine
on the NHS.
The Prince of Wales meets
acupuncturist Anne Lo and patient
Lenka Romanova during his visit
to an acupuncture and Chinese
herbal medicine centre at the NHS
Gateway Clinic in Lambeth Hospital,
south London.
The acupuncture and Chinese herbal
medicine centre in south London was
a joint winner in The Prince of Wales’s
Foundation for Integrated Health
Awards in December 2003. The Prince
presented the award after a visit to
the centre and praised it for innovation
in combining complementary and
orthodox medicine.
The Gateway Clinic is the only specialist
centre providing traditional Chinese
acupuncture on the NHS, offering free
body and ear acupuncture, Chinese
herbal medicine, dietary advice, t’ai chi
and qi gong exercise and meditation
classes to around 400 patients a week.
In a speech at the awards ceremony in
December 2003, The Prince highlighted
the benefits of integrated medicine
for a healthy lifestyle and said: “It
seems to me that there is an urgent
need to examine the way in which the
Western approach to life and the world
around us is increasingly affecting our
overall health. The Gateway Clinic is a
very good example of a service which
is not only helping to fill in gaps in
conventional care, but is also addressing
problems that conventional approaches
don’t always answer.”
Since they received the award in
December 2003, the centre has
continued to go from strength to
strength. The Gateway Clinic’s manager,
Dominique Joire, said receiving the
award was a “wonderful moment”.
He said: “It’s the first time somebody
has acknowledged our work, and we
hope this will help people take us more
seriously and lead to more integration
into the NHS.”
Far left.
The Prince talks to osteopath
Bediz Akinciglu and patient
Frances Griffiths during his
visit to the Waltham Forest
Community Health Practice in
Leytonstone, east London.
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Middle and right.
The Prince meets nurses and a
patient during a visit to the newly
opened Royal Victoria Hospital
building in Belfast.
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One of his most recent, and important, initiatives
was the creation in 2002 of The Prince of
Wales’s
Education Summer School, an initiative
Two of The Prince of Wales’s main charitable
established
to give teachers of English and
objectives – to help young people realise their
History
the
opportunity
to get together with
full potential and to promote investment in the
leading
writers
and
academics
to discuss the
country’s future – come together in his support
essential
elements
of
their
subjects
and the
for education. This is a theme which is important
importance,
in
The
Prince’s
view,
of
maintaining
for many of His Royal Highness’s charities,
coherent
chronological
story-telling
in
the
including The Prince’s Trust, The Foundation
teaching
of
History
and
the
power
of
narrative
in
for the Built Environment, Business in the
the teaching of English.
Community, The Prince’s Drawing School and
School of Traditional Arts, and is also reflected in
Since the first course two years ago, over 200
his life membership of the National Association
teachers from state schools have attended
of Head Teachers and his patronage of several
Summer
Schools in Devon and Norfolk where
educational causes.
they have been given the chance, away from the
pressure and constraints of the classroom, to
As a direct result of The Prince of Wales’s
identify
new ways of building the intellectual and
“Seeing is Believing” Programme, whereby The
emotional
development of young people.
Prince invites business leaders to come on visits
Education
into their local communities to understand at
first hand the impact of local and national issues,
The Prince launched Partners In Leadership
in 1996. This programme is an innovative and
simple solution to providing support to head
teachers by senior business leaders through a
mentoring relationship. There are currently over
6,000 head teachers being mentored around the
country as a result.
Heads of department have been drawn from
schools in a wide range of areas, and each
event has attracted an impressive array of
writers and academics, including Professor
Simon Schama, Sir Tom Stoppard, Dr David
Starkey, Seamus Heaney, Susan Hitch and
Baroness James of Holland Park. This year’s
Summer School is to be held in Derbyshire and,
as the concept develops, The Prince hopes to
incorporate a broader range of subjects into the
annual three-and-a-half-day event.
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“I found valuable ideas in every one of the talks, but in practical
terms I have used Susan Hitch’s material and Christopher Rick’s
techniques in lessons very effectively…”
Teacher who attended the Education Summer School at Dunston
Hall, June 2003
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Haggerston School
As well as these major initiatives, last year The
Prince of Wales also visited a number of schools
and higher education institutions throughout the
country, including Bacon’s College in south east
London where he helped pupils celebrate the
school’s 300th anniversary, Altrincham School
for Girls in Lancashire where he opened a new
library block, and the University of Buckingham
where he took part in a seminar with students
on the life of his great-great-great-grandmother,
Queen Victoria.
The Prince’s Trust “xl clubs” are making
a difference for the pupils at Haggerston
School in Hackney, east London.
The two-year accredited xl programme
encourages young people, aged 14 to
16 and at risk of exclusion or educational
underachievement, to develop skills in
an informal club setting in their school.
The pupils develop through activities
aimed at personal and team-building
skills. The xl scheme specifically aims to
raise self-esteem, improve motivation,
enable achievement, and to help
develop essential skills for life and work.
Haggerston School first started xl in
2002 and has two clubs. The Prince
visited the school in December 2003
to see for himself the success of the
scheme.
During his visit, The Prince met Year 10
students to talk about their involvement
in the scheme and the work they had
been doing to improve their personal
and team work, problem-solving,
citizenship skills and preparation for
the world of work.
The students also talked about their
award-winning company “Motherly
Love”. The company, which sold
Mother’s Day gifts, won three Young
Enterprise Team awards for London
in 2003.
Across the UK, there are currently 800
xl clubs in 513 schools. Strong support
from schools all over the country for the
xl club scheme has seen the number
of pupils excluded, at risk of exclusion,
or lacking in basic skills, helped by The
Prince’s Trust xl clubs rise from 1,500
to 9,000 in the past three years.
The Prince of Wales meets children
during a visit to Haggerston Girl’s
School in Hackney, east London.
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Responsible Business
With his long-standing interest in community
affairs and close ties to leading figures from
the business world, His Royal Highness is
well-placed to encourage responsible business
practice in the UK and abroad. It is his
fundamental belief that the private sector has
the ability to make a real difference to many of
the issues and problems facing communities
and, in the process, to benefit their businesses.
To help promote these ideas, in 1985 The Prince
agreed to become President of Business in
the Community (BITC), the UK charity which
aims to improve the positive impact business
has on society by getting companies to commit
to improve the way they operate and to work
together to address key social issues.
The work of Business in the Community has
become increasingly relevant for companies
committed to improving their relationships
with their employees, customers, suppliers
and communities. The Corporate Responsibility
Index, published last year for the first time by
BITC, in this country, is the only global voluntary,
business-led benchmark of responsible business
practice detailing how companies manage and
improve their impact on society. Now also,
launched in Australia and with other countries
interested in running the Index, it will become a
global benchmark of corporate performance.
The unique capability of BITC to operate locally
and campaign nationally enables the organisation
to work with its member companies to develop
sustainable solutions in partnership with those
who are most affected by key social issues. Best
practice is highlighted by means of the National
Awards for Excellence that give ‘Big Ticks’ to
Five years later, to help companies operating
those companies best able to demonstrate the
internationally, His Royal Highness set up The
Prince of Wales’s International Business Leaders positive impact they are having on society.
Forum to encourage businesses around the
A particular focus of The Prince’s work with
world to work together to tackle poverty, social
BITC in the past year has been the Rural
inequity and environmental problems.
Action Programme and the charity’s support for
homeless people. Since it started three years
Then in 1996, The Prince established In Kind
ago, in the middle of the Foot and Mouth crisis,
Direct, a charity which acts as a clearing house
for companies’ surplus goods to be redistributed the Rural Action Programme has developed
to good causes and voluntary groups throughout a series of initiatives to help regenerate rural
communities. These communities are now
the UK.
facing many of the issues which, until recently,
were thought to belong to inner cities: drug
abuse, crime and a lack of services, and in
particular a lack of housing for those who cannot
afford to pay the increasing prices.
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Seeing is Believing Programme
Fifteen years ago, The Prince of
Wales realised that if companies
were fully to understand how they
could play a role in tackling Britain’s
most pressing social issues in
deprived inner city and rural areas,
business leaders would have to go
and see the problems for themselves.
Top.
The Prince of Wales visited the Old
Crown pub in Hesket Newmarket
Village in Cumbria. In his role
as President of Business in the
Community, The Prince launched a
new guide to saving local pubs.
Above.
The Prince is handed a model of
himself made by Owen Humphreys,
4, during a visit to Melmerby village
in Cumbria.
So, The Prince’s Seeing is Believing
Programme (SIB) was set up by
Business in the Community in
1990, and in the intervening 14 years
the initiative has taken over 3,000
top executives into Britain’s most
deprived areas. Each visit focuses
on a particular problem, such as
under achievement in schools,
homelessness, social exclusion,
employability, or crime, and the
aim is to encourage businesses to
participate in existing programmes,
or set up their own initiatives, to
tackle these problems in their
local communities.
So successful has Seeing is
Believing proved, that 73 per cent
of business leaders who have
participated in the programme have
become more actively involved with
their company’s community activities
following their visit.
Martin Scicluna, chairman of
accountants Deloitte, was one of
them. He explains: “I attended one of
the The Prince of Wales’s Seeing is
Believing visits about five years ago
when, frankly, our involvement in the
community was virtually non-existent,
and on my return to my office I
vowed to launch an appropriate
programme. The Seeing is Believing
Programme acted as a catalyst for
our firm to start our investment in
‘eSkills4Industry’, a programme which
has been presented with one of the
Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards and
one of Business in the Community’s
Awards for Excellence Big Ticks.”
The Prince of Wales with farmer Danny
Miller and chief executive of Scottish
Business in the Community, Samantha
Barber, during his visit to Bilbster Mains
Farm in Caithness. The visit was
designed to explore ways in which
businesses can work with and boost
rural economies through opening up
access to Scottish and UK markets and
strengthening brands.
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In June, The Prince of Wales launched an
initiative to encourage landowners to make
land available for affordable housing, and to
encourage companies to look at the possibility
of using disused land and/or existing buildings
for affordable homes. Together with The Duke
of Westminster, The Prince is now funding two
staff to take forward the initiative.
In February, His Royal Highness visited an
excellent example of an affordable housing
project in Kettlewell, North Yorkshire, where he
met many of those involved with the project,
including tenants Gillian Rackham and her
husband Philip, the local gamekeeper. While in
Kettlewell, The Prince also attended a meeting
with local people who had laboured for 12 years
to get the affordable housing project off
the ground.
The success of the project was praised by
Mrs. Rackham, who, after proudly showing His
Royal Highness around her new home, said:
“The houses are absolutely lovely to live in. We
were in a tied cottage before and our future was
uncertain. Now we have the confidence to plan
and build for the future. The Prince is a wellknown champion of affordable housing and it is
lovely of him to come here and meet us.”
The plight of the homeless is another area to
which The Prince of Wales has encouraged
BITC’s members to pay close attention. His
Royal Highness has particular concerns about
those who find themselves on the street, and
strongly believes that helping people to hold
down a worthwhile job is key to breaking
the cycle which leads to rough sleeping. The
result was a new campaign launched in 2000,
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Business Action on Homelessness, which over
the years has helped over 1,000 people through
training and employment placements.
A recent new focus of the homelessness
campaign stems from The Prince’s concern
about the number of homeless who are exservice men. Last year he visited a new pilot
project at Crisis’s Skylight Centre which resulted
from a seminar he held with homelessness
agencies, including Combat Stress, of which he
is Patron.
Another initiative, called Project Compass, is
designed to help ex-service people to progress
towards sustained employment, culminating
in attendance at BITC’s existing ‘Ready to Go’
scheme, which provides homeless people with
two days of intensive personal development
and pre-employment training. Participants
also have the chance to take part in ‘Ready
for Work’, a two-week work placement with a
company during which they are supported by a
line manager and a ‘buddy’, and given help in
developing a CV. The results of the project so far
have been enormously encouraging.
The Prince’s work with his International Business
Leaders Forum (IBLF) organisation, set up to
explain and promote good business practice
and corporate social responsibility abroad, saw
him last year celebrate the 10th anniversary
of the IBLF’s work in Russia during his visit
to St Petersburg in July. The Forum has been
working to encourage western businesses to
support the upkeep of the city’s museums and
health services, which were threatened by the
economic crisis after the fall of communism.
The Prince of Wales is presented
with flowers by Alice Rackham
standing with her mother Gillian and
sisters Emily and Harriet, during his
visit to Kettlewell, Yorkshire, where
he was guided through the
affordable rural housing project by
homeowner Philip Rackham. The
Prince had championed the need for
low-cost rural housing, and in June
last year launched a major initiative
to encourage landowners and
businesses to use their land to
provide more affordable housing.
“I am so grateful to Business Action on Homelessness. Without
them and their dedication I don’t know where I would be. Today,
because of them and the Ready for Work programme I have a job
which allows me to lead a normal life again. It is a real blessing to
have my life back and live normally like everyone else.”
Ulisees Duarte, formerly homeless, who has been helped by a BITC
programme to get back on his feet
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The IBLF has also been helping restore historic
monasteries on the Solovetsky Islands in the
White Sea, northwest of Archangel. On the last
day of his three-day tour of Russia, The Prince
visited the islands where IBLF staff have been
providing advice and expertise to help develop
the location as a site of world cultural, spiritual
and natural heritage.
The success of the IBLF has been matched by
that of In Kind Direct, which in the eight years
since its formation by The Prince of Wales
has donated £34 million of goods to benefit
more than 3,000 charities. Given that many
of these goods would otherwise have been
destroyed or discarded, not only do good causes
benefit but there are also positive economic
and environmental spin-offs with companies
reducing landfill, saving on storage and disposal
costs, and making progress to meet their
environmental goals.
Looking forward, The Prince of Wales is
sure that the role for organisations like BITC,
the IBLF and In Kind Direct will become
ever more necessary as the pressure on
companies to demonstrate their corporate
social responsibility grows. There is also little
doubt that the business community can make
a real and lasting difference to individuals and
organisations throughout the country where
help is needed most, but where too often, and
for understandable reasons, public bodies have
neither the skills nor the fleetness of foot to give
the help that is needed.
The Prince of Wales with
Archimandrite Iosif (left) in the
Cathedral of the Solovetsky Monastery
on the Solovetsky Islands, close to the
Arctic Circle in the White Sea,
Northern Russia. The monastery was
named as a UNESCO World Culture
Heritage site in the early nineties, and
its development has been assisted by
The Prince of Wales’s IBLF.
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The Natural Environment
The Prince of Wales has publicly voiced his
concerns about the natural environment for
decades. Themes to which he often returns
are the need for responsible stewardship of our
natural resources and for global co-operation to
protect our environmental heritage, so that the
world can be passed on to future generations in
the best possible state.
Ten years ago, The Prince of Wales established
the Business and The Environment Programme
with the objective of helping companies to
integrate the concepts of sustainability into their
business thinking and practices (i.e. to help
businesses ensure that their operations are not
inherently short-term or unsustainable because
of the damage they do to the environment,
communities and/or scarce resources). The
programme aims to reach a select group of
decision-makers in leading businesses and
organisations in order to help them better
understand the challenges and opportunities in
sustainability, and to inspire them to transform
their organisations and develop champions who
will help steer business and society towards a
more sustainable economy.
Each year His Royal Highness holds a gathering
at Highgrove for those who have attended
Business and the Environment seminars – which
now take place in the UK, Austria, South Africa
and the United States of America. Last year
the theme of the Highgrove meeting was “A
Vision for a Sustainable Economy” and, through
presentations and discussions, the delegates
were encouraged to consider what a truly
sustainable economy might look like, to question
where society had got to so far and to consider
how the gap between the two might be closed.
Sustainability is a particularly important issue
in the fishing industry, and during the past year
one of the main environmental priorities for The
Prince of Wales has been to encourage and
support sustainable fisheries.
Last October, he visited the Loch Torridon
Nephrops fishery to commend their Marine
Stewardship Council (MSC) certification and to
see whether any lessons learned there might
be spread to other fisheries. Having seen
something of the methods by which MSC fish
are caught, His Royal Highness then visited
Coldwater Seafood in Grimsby in January to see
an MSC production line. He also joined a round
table discussion with major seafood buyers to
congratulate those who were embracing the
MSC certification process and encourage others
who had not participated in the programme to
follow suit.
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“In addition to good science and good regulation, we need
a system that harnesses the power of the consumer and
provides economic incentives to well-managed, sustainable
fisheries.”
The Prince of Wales speaking at the Marine Stewardship
Council gala dinner
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In September 2003, The Prince visited
the Scottish Highlands to deliver a
certificate of sustainability to the Loch
Torridon Nephrops Fishery in Shieldaig.
Loch Torridon was the first Scottish
fishery to be recognised by the Marine
Stewardship Council (MSC) for its
sustainable management policies.
Two months later, The Prince attended a
reception before the MSC gala dinner, where
he made a speech about sustainable fishing
that attracted considerable media coverage.
In the speech, His Royal Highness praised the
MSC’s work in promoting sustainable fishing:
“In addition to good science and good regulation,
we need a system that harnesses the power of
the consumer and provides economic incentives
to well-managed, sustainable fisheries.”
The Prince very much believes in practising what
he preaches, and last year his Duchy Originals
business launched two new food products made
from MSC-certified fish. The first was a seafood
pâté using Cornish mackerel caught by hand-line
fishermen. The second was a kipper and lemon
pâté made from Thames Herring, a fish unique
to our coastal waters, and which comes from
the MSC’s first British - certified fishery. The fish
are caught in season using drift nets – a highly
sustainable method which protects the young
fish stock – and are kippered by a local smokery.
The Prince visits Loch Torridon in
Scotland to deliver a certificate
marking international recognition
for a rural prawn fishery in the
Scottish Highlands.
All fishing in the area is conducted
within the boundaries of a voluntary
sustainable code of practice drawn
up by the fishermen to help preserve
stocks of nephrops, more commonly
known as langoustine. Members of the
fishery said that they were hoping to
use the accreditation to help restore the
legal controls prohibiting deep trawling
three miles from the coast which were
scrapped in the 1980s.
During The Prince’s visit to Shieldaig,
MSC commercial director Hilary
Khawam said: “Torridon is an excellent
example of what the Scottish fishing
industry could follow. In Torridon we
found that the fishery was very well
managed and that the effect on the
ecosystem was minimal.”
In January 2004, The Prince again
picked up the theme of the MSC’s
sustainable fishing certification when he
gave a speech at Coldwater seafood in
Grimsby, a town long associated with
the fishing industry. His Royal Highness
said: “In addition to good science and
good regulation, we need a system that
harnesses the power of the consumer
and provides economic incentives to
well-managed wild fisheries. That is
exactly what the Marine Stewardship
Council does, and that is why I have
been such a strong supporter of its work
right from the start.”
The Prince of Wales meets workers
during his visit to Coldwater Seafood
in Grimsby.
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The Built Environment
The Prince of Wales’s desire to protect and
sustain the natural environment is matched by
his interest in the built environment and how it
affects the quality of people’s lives. In looking
to the future, The Prince believes more must
be done to create urban areas that encourage
a sense of community and pride of place, and
whose human scale helps alleviate social
problems such as vandalism and other forms
of crime, social exclusion and depression.
To put these ideas and principles into effect, His
Royal Highness has developed Poundbury, the
urban extension of Dorchester in Dorset, and
established his charity The Prince’s Foundation
for the Built Environment, the only institution in
the UK which specialises in providing consultancy
and education services for large-scale urban
development or regeneration projects.
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the communities of which they are part, at the
centre of the design process – at the Foundation
for the Built Environment’s headquarters in
Shoreditch, East London.
At the conference, Mr Prescott backed the
Foundation’s call for new urban design principles
to be embedded in government planning
guidance. There is also cross-party interest
in The Prince’s desire to foster a sense of
community, pride of place, and good building
and craftsmanship in new urban developments
in Britain, and earlier this year 25 MPs visited
Poundbury, where His Royal Highness
conducted a tour of the town.
The Prince of Wales is also well aware of the
importance of supporting the recovery and
appropriate redevelopment of abandoned or
neglected historic places and buildings, and has
established The Prince of Wales’s Phoenix Trust
and the Prince’s Regeneration Through Heritage
Trust
to take forward his work in this area. The
At Poundbury, The Prince has overseen the
buildings
at risk, which are often large 19th
development since 1993 of a new community,
century
mills,
hospitals, dockyards or barracks,
with special emphasis in its design on taking
may
also
be
important
focal points for their local
account of the well-being of those who live
communities
which,
if
appropriately
redeveloped
and work there. The essence of Poundbury is
for
commercial
and
residential
use,
can
be a
the integration of land uses. In contrast to the
catalyst
for
the
regeneration
of
whole
areas.
zoning practices of post-war years, employment,
recreation, educational and shopping facilities
are integrated with housing, which itself is a mix Like many people up and down the country,
he watched the BBC Two series, Restoration,
of affordable and private accommodation. Cars
with
great interest. His Royal Highness sent a
are fully accommodated, but constrained by the
message
of support to the series. The message
configuration of streets, and concentrated in
was
broadcast
during the final programme and
rear car-parking courtyards. Pedestrian and cycle
made
the
case
for support of local heritage
movements are favoured, and townscape quality
and
thanked
the
hundreds of Civic Trust
is a high priority.
organisations up and down the nation. Since the
programme, The Prince has been connected
The results have been so successful that
Poundbury has been commended as a model for (in some way or another) with over half of the
new growth on green field land by John Prescott, buildings featured in the first series, including
the Victoria Baths in Manchester, which he
the Deputy Prime Minister. Last November,
visited
in October 2003, and Kinloch Castle on
Mr Prescott joined The Prince of Wales at a
the
Island
of Rum, which the Phoenix Trust is
conference on “Traditional Urbanism” – an
working
on
to conserve and to find new uses for.
approach to town planning and development,
which seeks to put the needs of the people, and
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The redevelopment of Cherry Knowle
mental health hospital in Ryhope near
Sunderland has been a good example
of how communities can benefit from
“Enquiry by Design”, a collaborative
approach developed by the Prince’s
Foundation for the Built Environment
that allows local people and other
stakeholders a say in the design and
planning process.
Another example of the Phoenix Trust’s work in
progress is the Bass Maltings in Lincolnshire,
which The Prince visited last November. The
Maltings is a series of iconic buildings within
the Fens, but it has faced an uncertain future
following years of redundancy and two fires. The
Prince’s visit coincided with the publication of
a feasibility study championed by the Phoenix
Trust, which showed that the range of malting
buildings had a long-term viable mixed-use
future. Work has progressed through the past
year to chart a way forward.
The Cherry Knowle project is part
of a joint initiative by The Prince’s
Foundation for the Built Environment
and NHS Estates. The aim of the
initiative has been to integrate the
newly developed facilities into the
proposed extension of Ryhope village,
so that mental health care will be
provided in a community setting to
which local people have contributed
their own design ideas.
The Prince’s concern for heritage does not
stop with saving buildings, but extends to
campaigning for the teaching and maintenance
of traditional craft skills in construction and
restoration. He has sought to achieve, in a
practical way, a reconnection with these skills by
establishing a Craft Scholarship Scheme within
his Foundation for the Built Environment.
Since embarking on the “EbD”
process, proposals for the
development have, among other
things, incorporated pedestrian
and vehicular links to integrate and
connect Cherry Knowle hospital with
the urban extension, and identified
existing heritage buildings for
conversion into new public places for
the community.
In the future, His Royal Highness hopes to
host a seminar at Woodchester Mansion in
Gloucestershire to bring together a number of
the organisations of which he is President or
Patron, as well as those organisations which are
active in this area, to see if a unified strategy
might be created towards the provision of
training in traditional craft skills.
Far left and middle left.
The Prince of Wales talks to Gill
Wright of Friends of Victoria Baths,
Manchester. The Baths, built
between 1903 and 1906, featured in
the BBC television programme
Restoration.
In January this year, The Prince of
Wales visited Cherry Knowle with
John Reid, the Secretary of State for
Health, to see for himself how the
plans were progressing. Alan Hall,
chief executive of South of Tyne
and Wearside Mental Health NHS
Trust, welcomed their visit, saying it
allowed them to “see how we hope
to provide revolutionary care for
our service users, within mixed-use
development such as education
and leisure which can be used by
everyone. Stigma is a major challenge
for mental health providers, and we
are confident this innovative vision
will help us break down this stigma
and provide healthcare facilities which
are truly part of the community.”
Middle right.
The Prince walks through
Poundbury, Dorset, during a visit to
the area.
Far right.
The Prince tasting produce at the
Poundbury Farmers’ Market
“Poundbury is important because it puts people before
cars. It shows that places to work and places to live can
exist side by side. It has affordable housing and market
housing – and you can’t tell the difference between the
two. It is a truly mixed community.”
John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister
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The Arts
His Royal Highness has long been a keen
supporter of the arts. As well as his own main
arts charities – Arts & Business, The Arts & Kids
Foundation, The Prince’s Drawing School and
The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts
– he is also President or Patron of some thirty
major UK arts organisations, ranging from the
Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal
Opera House to the Royal Academy and the
Philharmonia Orchestra.
He believes strongly that supporting excellence
in the arts is a vital facet of a diverse,
civilised society. He works hard to sustain
the organisations with which he has a direct
connection – by attending their concerts, giving
receptions for their supporters, and encouraging
their development programmes. In particular, he
is keen to help more people, especially young
people, to have the chance to experience what
is best in the UK arts.
The Grade I listed neo-classical interior originally
housed the library of King George III, and the
new gallery now holds nearly 5,000 objects
which draw on the theme of the Enlightenment
in Britain.
His Royal Highness said the exhibition
would help “explain to the public what the
Enlightenment was all about – discovery,
learning, enterprise, imagination and vision.”
Two of The Prince’s interests were combined
in a memorable event in September when he
was guest of honour at a Shakespeare Gala
evening at the Globe Theatre to raise money
for The Prince’s Trust. After meeting young
people who had taken part in a workshop set
up by The Trust to encourage involvement in
the arts, His Royal Highness enjoyed watching
a host of stars – including Gwyneth Paltrow,
Joseph Fiennes and Diana Rigg – perform
excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays. The evening
proved a great success, raising more than
£100,000 to help disadvantaged youngsters
through The Prince’s Trust.
With this in mind, two years ago he set up Arts
& Kids. Working with businesses across the UK,
Arts & Kids gives children and young people the As well as championing the arts, His Royal
opportunity to engage with the creative arts. The Highness is also a keen artist himself, and in
May last year three new lithographs of his
organisation is the focal point of a nationwide
watercolours were included in a London
campaign to enable every child and young
exhibition. The lithographs are of Scottish
person in the UK to engage directly with art
forms, including dance, theatre, opera, literature landscapes and Balmoral. As he has done in
and the visual arts. Its objective is ambitious – to the past, His Royal Highness has had 100 copies
of each signed lithograph made available for
give a million children in the UK the chance, by
sale to raise money for good causes. Over the
2008, to gain first-hand experience of the best
years,
sales of lithographs of The Prince’s
the arts have to offer.
paintings have raised significant sums of
money for charity.
Among the many arts-related events The Prince
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participated in last year, one of the highlights
was the opening in December of the new
Enlightenment Gallery at The King’s Library in
The British Museum, which His Royal Highness
attended in his capacity as Patron of The King’s
Library Restoration Trust.
British Museum Director Neil MacGregor said he was delighted
to have a direct descendent of George III re-opening rooms at
the King’s Library: “King George III wanted this to be available
to everybody. Now we have The Prince of Wales resuming this
very noble tradition.”
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Shakespeare Schools Festival
Involvement in the Shakespeare
Schools Festival helped to transform
a failing school into one that is now
‘drama mad’. Holloway School in London
took part in the festival two years ago
with a performance of Macbeth.
The school put on a professional
performance on the night and two
years later, in the words of teacher
Mary Casey, “the whole school is
drama mad.”
The Prince attended a performance
at Hackney Empire of A Midsummer’s
Night’s Dream by St Aidan’s School
in Harrogate. He was there to launch
the Million Kids Challenge from Arts
& Kids.
Now in its fourth year, the Shakespeare
Schools Festival has gone from strength
to strength and has helped nearly
15,000 11 to 15-year-olds perform
on stage all over the country. The
organisation of the festival is aided
by The Prince of Wales’s Arts & Kids
Foundation, of which The Prince is
President and founder.
The festival offers school children the
chance to put on a half-hour production
at their local theatre, and has already
put thousands of young actors on
professional stages.
Chris Grace, director of the event,
said: “The festival is all about giving
young people their first taste of drama,
introducing new audiences to their local
theatres, and bringing Shakespeare
out of the classroom and back onto the
stage.” The festival patrons include
Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Cherie Booth
and Tom Stoppard.
On the importance of the arts, The
Prince said: “The arts are a window
on our world that can capture a child’s
imagination and let it grow. We should
all have the opportunity to look through
that window.”
The Prince of Wales meets
students of his Drawing
School during a visit to
Smithfield Market, London.
The Prince was viewing the
work of the students who
were making architectural
sketches of the market.
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Promoting and
protecting
Acting as a Catalyst
Rural Communities
The Prince of Wales has had, over some
decades, a perhaps unrivalled opportunity to
meet people and to hear their aspirations and
concerns as he undertakes ‘awaydays’ and other
engagements and visits around the country. His
Royal Highness tries to use his access to people
from all walks of life to ensure that views and
concerns which might not otherwise be heard
receive some exposure and support.
A good example of how The Prince works
to safeguard what he believes is best about
Britain is his long-standing suppport for rural
communities. As a farmer himself, His Royal
Highness 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.
The Prince can act as a catalyst, with
often unseen effect, by raising issues in
correspondence or at private meetings,
seminars and events with a wide range of
influential individuals and groups, as well as
through speeches and, articles, and television
and radio contributions.
The Prince also tries to do what he can more
generally, to promote and protect national
values, traditions and excellence – whether it
be encouraging tolerance and respect for other
faiths and ethnic groups, supporting traditional
ways of life in rural communities, or recognising
those who achieve success on the local, national
or international stage.
As part of The Prince’s determination to
support British farmers, particularly smaller
family farms, he is doing all that he can to
encourage local sourcing, not only by retailers
and food-service companies, but also by public
bodies such as schools.
As His Royal Highness said in November
last year at the launch of Business in the
Community’s Local Sourcing Guide (a new guide
for farmers and small producers to help them to
understand the processes involved in working
with larger retailers and food-service operators):
“We are rapidly losing what is left of our local
culture. When we finally wake up and find it is
all gone, we cannot just reinvent it or grow it
in yet another test tube. It is a living, delicate
organism that has to be nurtured because
‘agri-culture’ should be exactly that – a subtle
blend of a production system with a profoundly
important psycho-social component.”
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Lynher Dairies
Lynher Dairies Cheese is a successful
company that recognises the
importance of local sourcing and the
support for small businesses provided
by Business in the Community. The
company is known for making the
famous nettle-covered Cornish Yarg
cheese. Catherine Mead, explains:
The Prince with Catherine Mead from
Lynher Dairies Cheese (far left) and
Joanna Jenner, owner of Barton Pickles
(centre), at the launch of the “Opening
the Door for Small Business” local
sourcing guide.
“In our early business planning we rarely
considered exactly where our business
growth was going to come from. Retail
was a broad and all-encompassing
sector, as was export. But I can honestly
say, I do not think we wrote down the
word ‘food-service’, and if we had, we
would not have understood what we
meant by it.
“I did not have an accessible guide
that looked at the trade options or
considered the implications of targeting
one market over another, and what we
might have to do to meet the needs of
that market.
“To have to hand a well-thought-out
synopsis of working with the different
trade sectors enables the small
business to plan and build those market
needs into the production process.
“The local sourcing booklet, ‘Opening
the Door for Small Business’, produced
by Business in the Community and the
grocery industry think tank IGD, is such
a guide. It provides the starting point
for ensuring that the small producer can
take a professional stance, as opposed
to that more ad hoc reactive approach
that may well constrain growth through
the food-service sector.”
Far left.
The Prince of Wales is greeted by
members of the public as he walks
along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. He
visited some of Scotland’s top visitor
attractions in a bid to raise the profile
of the country’s tourism industry.
Left.
The Prince at the Real Mary King’s
Close, Edinburgh.
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Just after the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001,
His Royal Highness visited Skipton Auction Mart
in Yorkshire to talk to farmers who had suffered
particularly badly. In February this year he
returned to open the new Craven Rural Business
and Skills Centre, which provides a one-stop
shop for the local rural community: agricultural
merchants, a tractor franchise, a butchery and
cutting plant, rural skills training for local young
More recently, in February, The Prince, as Patron people and, of course, the auction mart. His
of the Soil Association, met representatives
Royal Highness was deeply encouraged to see
from two schools in North Yorkshire who are
the renewed sense of optimism and confidence
working with local organic farmers to provide
amongst these rural and agricultural businesses.
high-quality, locally-sourced organic food for
Looking forward, The Prince is determined
school meals, giving clear benefits to both
to continue doing all he can to help rural
farmers and children.
communities, and in the coming year his
The Prince is also keen to encourage the
agenda will include issues such as helping
development of co-operatives in the agricultural to develop a viable future for market towns,
sector. During a visit to Lincolnshire, he met
dismantling the barriers which prevent
members of the Lincolnshire Machinery Ring
young people from entering agriculture,
and Labour Exchange who explained how
and encouraging local sourcing and greater
their co-operative works and, in particular,
co-operation among farmers.
the difference it makes to the viability of
small farms. He also met a group of farmers
in Cumbria to discuss their proposals for a
co-operative meat-cutting plant.
In the same month, he gave a dinner for senior
representatives of the food-service sector to
encourage them to consider doing more to
buy from British farmers, and, where possible,
locally. Following this, the Institute for Grocery
Distribution and BITC set up a working party to
narrow down areas for action, which will report
back in the coming year.
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Left.
The Prince of Wales, wearing a bright
orange Ramal headscarf at the Sri Guru
Singh Sabha Gurdwara Sikh Temple, in
Southall.
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The Church of England and
Ethnic Minorities
The Prince of Wales has regular contact with
the Church of England, including meetings
with the Archbishop of Canterbury and other
bishops. In addition to his attendances at
Sunday services, he makes numerous visits
to cathedrals and churches around the country
throughout the year.
Moreover, through his patronage, The Prince
supports a number of organisations that aim
to preserve these fine buildings. Among others,
The Prince is Patron of The Friends of Brecon
Cathedral, The Hereford Cathedral Perpetual
Trust, The Lincolnshire Old Churches Trust
and Music in Country Churches.
Several of the organisations which he has
established – for example, The Prince’s Trust
and The School for Traditional Arts – have
made the understanding and intergration
of ethnic minorities a key part of their work.
Over the year, His Royal Highness engaged
with representatives of all the world’s major
faiths, and events he attended with UK ethnic
minorities ranged from a huge Sikh celebration
in Southall to an Eid event with the Muslim
College, and from a dinner for World Jewish
Relief to the Commonwealth Day Observance
at Westminster Abbey.
Tourism
Promoting tourism in Britain is another feature
of The Prince’s working life. When he travels
round the country, highlighting attractions for
domestic and overseas visitors is a regular part
Tolerance of others is often regarded as a
of his work. For example, last year His Royal
central feature of the British character, and
Highness supported British Tourism Day along
His Royal Highness has long had an interest in
with other members of the Royal Family. As
trying, by building bridges in different ways, to
part of his contribution, The Prince hosted
promote better understanding within the UK and a dinner and lunchtime reception at
elsewhere of the world’s different faiths, and
Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
between ethnic minorities and wider society.
The event was not just for those who run the
Celebrating rather than simply tolerating
industry but also those who are in the frontline
differences, understanding the importance of
– the hotel and guesthouse keepers, the
what matters most to different peoples, and
operators of the country’s varied attractions,
finding and nurturing the cultural and spiritual
and the voluntary staff who play such an
roots of all groups in our society: these have
important role. As part of the Tourism Day, His
long been priorities for The Prince, both in his
Royal Highness also toured Linlithgow Palace
private interests and his public work.
in West Lothian, and visited the House for an
Art Lover in Glasgow as well as some of the
key attractions on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
Left.
The Prince is pictured at Southwark
Cathedral with the Dean, the Very
Reverend Colin Slee.
Left.
The Prince watching
butchers in action at the
Skipton Auction Mart,
Yorkshire.
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110604AR04-appendices.indd I
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Income,
Expenditure
and Staff
Income and Expenditure Account
2004
£000s
2003
£000s
Duchy of Cornwall
Grants-In-Aid
Government Departments
11,913
3,856
292
9,943
2,798
304
Total income and funding
16,061
13,045
5,947
5,627
2,951
825
80
3,856
2,207
478
113
2,798
292
4,406
304
3,843
14,501
12,572
1,560
473
1,442
802
118
(329)
Years to 31st March
Income and Funding
Expenditure
Official duties and charitable activities
Grants-In-Aid:
London office and official residence
Official travel by air and rail
Communications support
Overseas tours and military secondees
Tax and personal expenditure
Total expenditure
Operating surplus
Capital expenditure less depreciation,
loan repayments and transfer to reserves
Net cash surplus (deficit)
Income and Funding
£millions
Duchy of Cornwall
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11.913
The Prince of Wales’s income comes from the
Duchy of Cornwall, which consists of around
57,088 hectares of land in 25 counties, mostly
in the South West of England. The landed estate
includes agricultural, commercial and residential
property. The Duchy also has a financial
investment portfolio.
The Duchy estate was created in 1337 by
Edward III for his son and heir, Prince Edward,
and its primary function was to provide him and
future Princes of Wales with an income from its
assets. It was traditional for many centuries for
families with landed estates to settle the land
and other assets in trust, so that each generation
could live off the income but was unable to
sell the assets. This was done to ensure that
the estate, and the income which it provided,
survived from generation to generation.
The same principle was applied to the Duchy of
Cornwall. Under the 1337 charter, as confirmed
by subsequent legislation, The Prince of Wales
does not own the Duchy’s capital assets, and
is not entitled to the proceeds or profit on their
sale, and only receives the annual income which
they generate (which is voluntarily subject to
income tax). Because of the importance of the
beneficiary, the Duchy’s ‘trust provisions’ have,
over the years, been set out in legislation, with
the financial security of the Duchy overseen by
HM Treasury.
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His Royal Highness chooses to use a large
proportion of the income from the Duchy of
Cornwall to meet the cost of his public and
charitable work. In 2003-04, the income due
to The Prince of Wales’s Office from the Duchy
amounted to £11.913 million, compared with
£9.943 million in 2002-03.
For a number of years, following the major
purchase of the Prudential agricultural property
portfolio, the Duchy has been restructuring its
property portfolio of commercial, agricultural and
residential properties. The 20% increase in the
surplus this year is a combination of increased
rental income from commercial properties newly
acquired in line with this policy, and rent reviews
on existing properties.
The Prince of Wales is actively involved in running
the estate, which is required to be operated on a
commercial basis by its parliamentary legislation.
However, the long history of the Duchy of
Cornwall and The Prince’s own commitment
to pass down to his successors an estate in a
better and stronger condition than when he
became the beneficiary also requires a
long-term stewardship approach.
With this in mind, The Prince of Wales ensures
that environmental and agricultural best practice,
and working in partnership with its tenants and
local communities, are at the heart of the Duchy’s
management approach. He has shown that
preserving and sustaining rural communities, as
well as supporting traditional craftsmanship and
architecture, are not incompatible with achieving
a satisfactory financial return. Both the Duchy’s
income and the value of its capital assets have
increased significantly in recent years.
An analysis of The Prince of Wales’s income from
the Duchy of Cornwall between the principal asset
categories is as follows.
Years to 31st March
Commercial properties
Agricultural land and forestry
Residential properties
Financial assets
2004
%
2003
%
43
30
14
13
39
33
15
13
100
100
The Duchy of Cornwall’s annual accounts are
published by The Stationery Office (TSO) and
a copy can be ordered by mail:
TSO, PO Box 29, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 LGN
online: www.tso.co.uk/bookshop
by telephone: 0870 6005522
by fax: 0870 6005533
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£millions
Grants-In-Aid
3.856
Funding to pay for official costs incurred by or
in support of The Queen as Head of State is
provided by Parliament in return for the surrender
of the revenue from the Crown Estate. This
funding is provided in three ways: (i) a Civil List
for The Queen and a Parliamentary Annuity for
The Duke of Edinburgh, (ii) Grants-In-Aid, and (iii)
costs met directly by Government Departments.
The Prince of Wales does not receive money
from the Civil List, but the Grants-In-Aid paid to
The Queen’s Household are used, in part,
to support his 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-InAid, 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 lAA
Government Departments
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0.292
The Civil List, Parliament Annuity and the
Grants-In-Aid are funds transferred to, and
spent and controlled by, the Royal Household.
In addition, Government Departments meet
directly expenditure incurred in support of The
Queen as Head of State. For The Prince of Wales,
Government Departments meet expenditure in
respect of the provision of staff on secondment
from the Armed Services (£214,000 spent by
the Ministry of Defence in 2003-04) and the
cost of official overseas visits undertaken at the
request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(£78,000 spent by the FCO in 2003-04).
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Expenditure
£millions
Official duties and charitable activities
5.947
Approximately 50% of The Prince of Wales’s
income from the Duchy of Cornwall was spent
on official duties and charitable activities. Of
the £5.947 million, £3.213 million was the cost
of the staff who supported His Royal Highness
in carrying out his official duties. An analysis of
official expenditure is given on page 44.
The Prince of Wales employs 124 full- and parttime staff in his Household, which equates to
111.8 full-time staff. Of these, 84.1 support
him in undertaking official duties and charitable
activities and 27.7 are personal staff for himself,
Prince William and Prince Harry, and Mrs Parker
Bowles. Of the official staff, 4.5 are seconded
without charge by the armed services as
referred to above.
The table over the page lists The Prince of
Wales’s official staff by Household department
and also gives the total cost, including salaries
and other expenditure, of each department.
Grant-In-Aid: London office and official
residence
2.951
The Property Services Grant-In-Aid is the annual
funding provided by the Department for Culture,
Media and Sport to the Royal Household to
meet the cost of the maintenance of, and certain
utilities and related services for, the Occupied
Royal Palaces.
Clarence House is the London office and official
residence for The Prince of Wales, Prince
William and Prince Harry. It is used for official
dinners, receptions and meetings, as well as for
offices for His Royal Highness’s official staff. The
principal rooms, which are on the ground floor
of Clarence House, are open to the public from
August until October annually, although closed
for a few days during this period while The
Prince is in residence.
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£millions
Grant-In-Aid: Official travel by air and rail
0.825
The Royal Travel Grant-In-Aid is the annual
funding provided by the Department for
Transport to meet the cost of official royal travel
by air and rail. Official travel by car for The Prince
of Wales is paid for from his income from the
Duchy of Cornwall.
It is an important part of The Prince of Wales’s
role as Heir to the Throne to bring together
people in different parts of the United Kingdom,
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
2003-04 His Royal Highness travelled more than
43,500 miles to and from official engagements
in the United Kingdom and overseas. This
figure includes almost 26,000 miles of overseas
travel. The cost of these journeys amounted to
£825,000 in 2003-04.
This figure includes the variable costs only for
journeys undertaken using 32 Squadron, The
Queen’s Helicopter or the Royal Train. This is
because the fixed aircraft and train costs are
incurred irrespective of whether they are used
and do not result from undertaking specific
journeys. For a full explanation, see the Grant-InAid for Royal Family Travel by Air and Rail Annual
Report 2003-04 – available on www.royal.gov.uk.
Grant-In-Aid: Communications support
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0.08
The Royal Communications and Information
Grant-In-Aid is the annual funding provided
by the Department for Culture, Media and
Sport for communication and information
services in connection with official royal
functions and engagements.
The Prince of Wales’s Office incurs
expenditure developing and running an overall
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, costs incurred in assisting
the media at engagements throughout the
country have traditionally been met from the
Communications and Information Grant-In-Aid.
The cost of this support amounted to £80,000
in 2003-04.
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£millions
Overseas tours and military secondees
0.292
The Equerries (one full-time and one part-time)
and three of the four Orderlies are seconded
from the armed forces to assist The Prince of
Wales in undertaking official duties. The role
of the Equerries is explained on page 42-43.
The cost to the Ministry of Defence in 2003-04
was £214,000.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office meets
the cost of The Prince of Wales’s Official Visits
abroad (except for travel costs which are met
from the Royal Travel Grant-In-Aid). In 2003-04
His Royal Highness visited Russia, India and
Oman, Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. These visits
are undertaken at the request of the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office to build on and
strengthen the good relations which the United
Kingdom enjoys with countries throughout
the world. The cost to the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office for The Prince of Wales’s
official overseas visits amounted to £78,000
in 2003-04.
Tax and personal expenditure
4.406
The Prince of Wales pays income tax voluntarily
on the surplus of the Duchy of Cornwall,
applying normal income tax rules and at
current tax rates, and pays income tax on all
other income and capital gains tax like any
private individual.
In addition to paying for The Prince of Wales’s
official duties and charitable activities and
his income tax liability, the income from the
Duchy of Cornwall is used to meet personal
expenditure for The Prince of Wales, Princes
William and Harry, and some personal costs
of Mrs Parker Bowles.
Personal expenditure includes the salary cost
of 27.7 full-time equivalent personal staff,
including personal secretaries, a chef, grooms,
valets, gardeners, farm staff and estate workers
and staff for Princes William and Harry and
Mrs Parker Bowles. Personal expenditure
also includes the appropriate share of the
cost of Highgrove House and Birkhall, and of
maintaining the estate and garden at Highgrove.
Personal expenditure includes the cost of His
Royal Highness and Princes William and Harry
playing polo. The Prince of Wales now plays polo
only to raise money for charity. During 2003, it is
estimated that £875,000 was raised.
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 farming.
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Staff
As at and for the year to 31st March 2004
Full-time
equivalent staff
Private Secretary and Assistants
3.0
Private Secretaries’ Office
Deputy Private Secretary
Assistant Private Secretaries
Research and Administrative Assistants
Correspondence
1.0
3.0
7.1
3.5
17.6
Finance and Administration
Treasurer and Assistant
Finance
Personnel
Archives
IT Systems Manager
Orderlies
Reception
40 41
Total official staff as at 31st March 2004
Total cost of official duties and charitable
activities for the year to 31st March 2004
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474
2.0
1.5
4.2
2.0
3.0
2.0
7.5
1.0
2.0
8.4
1.0
34.6
Charities
Director of Charities and Assistant
Deputy Director of Charities
1,565
2.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
8.0
Senior Equerry’s Office and Official
Engagements and Receptions
Senior Equerry and Assistant
Equerries
Programme and Travel Co-ordinators
Butlers
Chefs
Chauffeurs
House Managers and Housekeepers
Valet
Orchard Room staff
Gardeners and Estate Workers
Garden Tours Administrator
1,198
2.0
6.0
3.4
3.0
1.0
3.5
2.0
20.9
Communications
Communications Secretary and Assistant
Press Secretary
Assistant Press Secretaries
Press Officers and Website Editor
Official Costs
£000s
2,710
2.0
1.0
3.0
84.1
5,947
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Offices
The Prince of Wales’s principal office, where
most of his staff work, is in Clarence House,
which is adjacent to St James’s Palace in
central London.
The cost of maintaining the fabric of the
London office, as well as of utilities and fixedline telephones (but not other costs for the
London office), is met from the Property
Services Grant-In-Aid (see page 37). There
are also offices for official staff at Highgrove
and Birkhall, The Prince of Wales’s private
residences. Some costs incurred at Highgrove
and Birkhall are, therefore, charged to the
‘Official Duties and Charitable Activities’
expenditure category, although most costs
incurred at these two residences are allocated
to The Prince’s Personal Expenditure.
The duties of each department are described
in the following sections.
The Private Secretary
The Private Secretary is the senior member
of The Prince of Wales’s Household and is
responsible for all aspects of running the
Household and for overseeing His Royal
Highness’s charitable and other organisations.
The Private Secretaries’ Office
The Deputy Private Secretary is responsible
for the day-to-day running of the Private
Secretaries’ Office. The Deputy and Assistant
Private Secretaries facilitate and support The
Prince of Wales’s official duties, engagements
and charitable activities. They help compile
The Prince of Wales’s diary, organise his
domestic and overseas programme of visits,
arrange briefing sessions, receptions and other
functions, administer correspondence, and
coordinate research and briefing to support
his work.
Each Private Secretary is responsible for specific
areas and for liaising with certain of The Prince’s
organisations. These responsibilities, as well
as those of other senior staff, are listed in the
Appendix (see page 46). They also ensure that
His Royal Highness is kept informed about
topical issues, and provide him with background
information for letters he writes to ministers
and other leading national figures, and for his
speeches and articles.
The Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince
Harry receive a large number of letters each
year. In 2003-04, for example, they received
over 33,000 letters. People from all over the
world write to The Prince of Wales and his sons,
although the majority of the letters are from the
United Kingdom.
Letters to the Princes cover a wide range of
subjects and are often prompted by current
issues and debates. The Prince of Wales sees a
wide selection of the correspondence and writes
personally over 2,000 letters a year. His Royal
Highness ensures that letters not answered by
himself or his Private Secretaries are replied to
by the Correspondence Section on his behalf.
Where appropriate, the Correspondence Section
will include with replies information about The
Prince’s charitable work, interests and activities,
as well as historical and other background
information for schools and young people.
In addition, The Prince of Wales receives many
requests from a wide range of charities and
other organisations for donations or items for
auction. Requests for donations are dealt with
by the Finance Section, while requests for items
to auction are handled by the Correspondence
Section. While it is not possible to respond
to all the many requests for items to auction,
His Royal Highness donates items such as
lithographs of his watercolours, signed books
and tours of the garden at Highgrove. In 2003-04,
items donated for auction raised in excess of
£100,000 for charity.
Finance and Administration
The Finance and Administration Department
is responsible for financial and personnel
management, information systems and general
administration across the Household. The
department is headed by the Treasurer, assisted
by the Financial Controller and the Head of
Personnel and Administration.
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 authorisation of expenditure. It is also
responsible for achieving best value for money
and is putting in place the necessary staff
resources to review regularly all categories
of spending.
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.
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The Treasurer has financial and administrative
responsibility for The Prince of Wales’s UK
and US Charitable Foundations. He 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 from royalties from
the publication of books. The annual income of
the two Charitable Foundations is in excess of
£2.5 million. In addition, the Treasurer monitors
the financial affairs of His Royal Highness’s
key charities and is responsible for publishing,
contractual and legal matters.
The Personnel Section manages staff
recruitment, remuneration, training and
development, health and safety and
employee relations.
The majority of the Household’s information
technology systems are provided and supported
by the Information Systems Management
section at Buckingham Palace. The IT Systems
Support Manager is responsible for the day-today operation of these systems.
The department also includes Orderlies (who
maintain office equipment and are responsible
for office supplies, stationery and office cars),
and Receptionists.
Three Archivists are responsible for managing
all the papers and files relating to the public life
of The Prince of Wales since the late 1960s.
More recent papers in the archive are kept at
St James’s Palace and older records are stored
in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. The
Senior Archivist also manages requests for
The Prince to become Patron or President of
an organisation, and dealings with existing
patronages and presidencies.
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A new post of Communications Secretary
was created in February to oversee the
communications strategy and act as senior
media adviser to The Prince of Wales, Prince
William and Prince Harry. The Communications
Secretary is responsible for the Press Office,
which consists of a Press Secretary, two
Assistant Press Secretaries, two Press Officers
and a Website Editor.
The Press Office handles media enquiries on
all aspects of The Prince of Wales’s work and
role, as well as those of Prince William and
Prince Harry, dealing each year with more than
50,000 telephone calls from local, national and
international media. The department arranges
media facilities for all of The Prince’s public
engagements in the United Kingdom and
overseas, and issues more than 1,000 press
releases, announcements, information bulletins
and operational notes each year.
Maintaining The Prince of Wales’s website –
www.princeofwales.gov.uk – is also part of
the Press Office’s role. The website attracts
over 950,000 hits per week and is a popular
information resource for the media, researchers
and the public from the United Kingdom and
overseas. In addition to the latest news about
His Royal Highness’s engagements, the site
provides information on his work and charitable
activities, as well as recent speeches, historical
details, articles and a picture gallery. Information
and news about Prince William and Prince Harry
are also available on the site.
Senior Equerry’s Office and Official
Engagements and Receptions
Staff in The Equerry’s Office co-ordinate The
Prince of Wales’s programme of engagements.
They manage his diary on a daily basis,
providing an interface between staff, police and
Communications
outside organisations, and plan his long-term
As Heir to the Throne, there is extensive public
programme. They also manage the logistical and
and media interest in the activities of The Prince transport arrangements for The Prince’s official
of Wales, and of Prince William and Prince Harry. visits at home and abroad. There are usually
three overseas tours a year. The Senior Equerry
The Press Office’s role is to provide information is a permanent member of staff, but the Equerry
and facilitate a better understanding, for a wide
is a serving military officer seconded from the
audience, of The Prince of Wales’s work and
armed forces to the Household for a period of
activities. The Press Office also handles media
approximately two years.
enquiries for the two young Princes, and liaises
closely with colleagues in the Buckingham
Each year the Prince receives thousands of
Palace Press Office in respect of general issues invitations from a wide range of public and
to do with the Monarchy as a whole.
private sector organisations. Each is given
careful consideration by The Prince of Wales
himself and his Office. The Senior Equerry and
Equerry liaises with the Private Secretaries, the
Press Office, and The Prince’s organisations to
ensure that each year His Royal Highness covers
a broad range of interests and meets a wide
cross-section of the people in as many parts of
the country as possible.
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The Equerry and Temporary Equerry 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. As well as holding the
rank of Vice Admiral, Lieutenant General and Air
Marshal in each of the nation’s armed services,
he is also Colonel-in-Chief of 11 regiments of the
British Army and six Commonwealth regiments.
In addition, he is Colonel of the Welsh Guards,
and Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Valley.
The Prince of Wales uses his private home
at Highgrove, and in particular the Orchard
Room within its grounds, for official
engagements and entertaining.
The Prince of Wales conducts eight Investitures
at Buckingham Palace each year and also
attends state functions on behalf of The Queen.
The Equerry’s Office is responsible for the
arrangements for these engagements.
Each year The Prince invites more than 18,000
people to go round the garden at Highgrove,
finishing with refreshments in the Orchard
Room. In the summer, up to eight tours of 25
people can take place each day, amounting
to nearly 700 tours a year. In addition, those
attending official receptions normally may look
around the garden. These tours are designed
to recognise service or special situations, but
they also demonstrate, by example, the benefits
of natural land management and organic
gardening. Committed to conserving Britain’s
natural heritage, The Prince uses the garden as
a conservation area for endangered varieties of
plants and flowers.
Twenty-six (full-time equivalent) staff manage
and organise these occasions. Most of these
staff are required on duty seven days a week,
including most evenings, with a week on/week
off rota worked. Staff who assist The Prince of
Wales in a private capacity are not included, and
their cost is allocated to personal expenditure
Butlers act as ‘front of house’ for The Prince of
Wales, meeting guests, organising 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. For larger receptions
and dinners, the Event Managers oversee
the planning and administrative and catering
arrangements. One Butler is on duty at all times.
The Prince of Wales has Valets to assist him
with his official clothing and uniforms, and with
his personal clothing. That part of their time
devoted to The Prince’s official engagements
is charged under the ‘official engagements and
charitable activities’ heading. Similarly, the costs
associated with Chauffeurs driving The Prince
of Wales to official engagements and related
expenditure are charged in this way.
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Visitors to the garden include charitable and
gardening groups, while gardening students and
researchers also work in the garden throughout
the year. No charge is made for the tour or
refreshments, but visitors are able to buy items
from the Highgrove Shop which donates all its
profits to The Prince of Wales’s UK Charitable
Foundation. In 2003-04 this raised nearly
£90,000 for charity.
The Prince employs a team of Gardeners.
Because the garden is mainly used for visits
by members of the public, the majority of
the costs are allocated to official expenditure
(although official as well as personal costs are
met from His Royal Highness’s private income).
The balance, which is assumed to relate to The
Prince’s personal enjoyment of the garden, is
allocated to personal expenditure.
,
Official entertaining is an important part of The
Prince of Wales’s role. Each year he entertains
about 9,000 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 his charities. In 2003-04, His Royal
Highness gave 88 receptions, seminars, lunches
and dinners, ranging from small lunches to
events for many hundreds of guests.
The Orchard Room was designed and built
by The Prince specifically for the purpose of
entertaining official guests. It is heavily used:
in 2003-04, for example, it was used for 37
receptions, seminars and briefings for over
2,900 guests.
Charities
A new Charities department has been created
with the appointment of a Director and Deputy
Director of Charities. The new team has
responsibility for providing support and advice
to The Prince of Wales’s charities, in particular
the core 17 organisations, on matters such as
corporate governance, donations policies and
fundraising, planning, and communications. The
department also facilitates liaison and synergy
between the charities and helps with the
appointment of chairmen and trustees.
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Annual Visits
The Prince makes a number of visits to Scotland
and Wales every year, and in addition stays for a
working week at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in
Scotland and for a series of official engagements
in Wales. The cost of these longer annual visits,
which principally relates to receptions and
dinners, amounts to approximately £50,000, and
is included in ‘official entertaining’ expenditure.
Official Costs analysed by
expenditure category
Expenditure has been analysed and explained
in the preceding sections by department. The
following table analyses official duties and
charitable activities expenditure by category.
£000s
2004
£000s
2003
Salaries
Training, recruitment and staff welfare
Travel and subsistence
External consultancy and professional fees
Official entertaining
Donations and gifts
Utilities
Residences and offices
Press and information services
Stationery and office equipment
IT systems
Housekeeping
Insurance
Gardens
Depreciation
3,213
148
176
238
655
72
116
643
84
80
241
64
40
38
139
3,131
150
189
614
843
45
108
160
85
71
62
26
24
67
52
Total
5,947
5,627
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The main variances between current and prior
year expenditure are explained below.
Corporate social responsibility
Salaries
The Prince of Wales has long been an advocate
of businesses being aware of their social
responsibilities, and requires his own Household
to achieve best practice in this area.
The salary costs of £3.2 million relate to the
84.1 official staff and include salaries, National
Insurance contributions, pension contributions
and other benefits. During the course of the
year, additional staff have been employed to
strengthen the management team and to staff
Clarence House. The 2002-03 figure included
restructuring costs.
External consultancy and professional fees
External consultancy and professional fees
fell, partly as a result of the appointment of
the Communications Secretary during the
year and partly because of exceptional costs
in the previous year, including the inquiry by
Sir Michael Peat and Mr Edmund Lawson.
Professional fees include legal and audit fees.
Official entertaining
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. Although the
costs fell, the level of official entertaining during
2003-4 was broadly comparable. The nature,
and therefore the cost of entertaining is variable
which, combined with improved cost control,
resulted in an overall reduction for the year. The
costs include the maintenance, upkeep and rent
of the Orchard Room.
On environmental matters, His Royal Highness
has set targets, among other things, to reduce
air emissions by using more fuel-efficient
vehicles, reduce waste by purchasing more
recyclable products, reduce paper consumption
through greater use of double-sided printing,
and reduce electronic equipment waste by
donating used computers to charities and
recycling mobile phones.
The Household also actively seeks to support
its local communities in Westminster (Clarence
House) and Gloucestershire (Highgrove). For
example, last year children from a state school in
London visited the St James’s Palace offices as
part of their history and citizenship curriculum at
GCSE, while in Gloucestershire each year, many
local groups are invited to tour the Highgrove
gardens and the nearby Home Farm to learn
something about horticulture and organic
farming. The Prince’s staff also contribute to
their community as individuals.
Residences and offices
The increase in expenditure reflects the
occupation of Clarence House. The majority
of the expenditure on the refurbishment of
Clarence House was met by the Property
Services Grant-In-Aid. However, the cost of
some of the redecoration of Clarence House and
the refurbishment of most of its contents was
met by The Prince of Wales.
IT systems
During the course of year, the Household met
its objective of providing all office staff with
external e-mail and internet access. In addition,
the Household invested to develop further the
use of information technology as part of the
ongoing process of improving management
systems and procedures.
Housekeeping and Depreciation
The increase in both categories of expenditure
reflects the occupation of Clarence House.
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Appendix
Portfolios of Private Secretaries and
other Senior Staff
Sir Michael Peat
Private Secretary
General management and oversight of all
aspects of the Household
Constitutional, state and ceremonial matters,
with the Equerry
Overall supervision of media matters
The Duchy of Cornwall, with The Treasurer
The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation
(UK), assisted by the Treasurer
Duchy Originals Limited
Patronages
Overall supervision of The Prince of Wales’s
organisations
Elizabeth Buchanan
Deputy Private Secretary
Deputising for the Private Secretary in respect
of Private Secretarial matters
Wales
The Prince’s Trust
Rural affairs, agriculture and fishing
Business in the Community (including Scottish
Business in the Community)
Relations with business and industry
The natural environment
The Prince of Wales’s Business and the
Environment programme
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Liaising with the Prince of Wales’s charities
and organisations on media matters
Press facilities for visits and engagements
in the UK and overseas
Publications
Management of The Prince of Wales’s Website
Paul Kefford
Assistant Private Secretary
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built
Environment, with the Private Secretary,
and other architectural, heritage and built
environment matters
The elderly, including PRIME and hospices
Disability
Gardening
Relations with the Anglican and Catholic
Churches
James Kidner
Assistant Private Secretary
Foreign and Commonwealth relations,
including overseas tours
Northern Ireland
The Prince of Wales’s International Business
Leaders Forum
International development
Ethnic and faith communities
The arts
Mark Leishman
Assistant Private Secretary
Scotland, including Holyrood week
Kevin Knott
Treasurer, assisted by Philippa Norman, Financial The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Integrated
Health, and other medical and health related
Controller, Mimi Watts, Head of Personnel and
charities and issues
Administration, and David Hutson, Archivist
Deputising for the Private Secretary in respect of Education
financial, management and administrative issues
Rupert Lendrum
Financial management, Personnel and IT
Senior Equerry
Archives and office paper-flow
Overall supervision of the programme and diary
The Duchy of Cornwall, with the Private
Domestic staff
Secretary
All residences
The Prince of Wales’s UK and US Charitable
Security Issues
Foundations
A.G. Carrick Limited
Squadron Leader Richard Pattle
Publishing, contractual and legal matters
Equerry
Tradesmen’s Royal Warrants of Appointment
Programme and diary
Overall financial supervision of The Prince of
Wales’s organisations, with the Private Secretary State and ceremonial, with the Private Secretary
Military, including veterans and emergency
services
Paddy Harverson
Sport
Communications Secretary, assisted by Patrick
Harrison, Press Secretary
Virginia Carington
All media matters for The Prince of Wales,
Special Assistant to The Prince of Wales
Princes William and Harry and the Duchy
The Royal Collection
of Cornwall
Personal letters and private engagements
Assisting the Press Office with TV and
other films
Claudia Holloway
Head of Correspondence Section
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Core Organisations of The Prince
of Wales’s charitable enterprise
Arts and Business
www.aandb.org.uk
Business in the Community
www.bitc.org.uk
Business and the Environment
www.cpi.cam.ac.uk
In Kind Direct
www.inkinddirect.org
PRIME - Cymru
www.prime-cymru.co.uk
PRIME - England
www.primeinitiative.org.uk
Scottish Business in the Community
www.sbcscot.com
The Prince’s Drawing School
www.princesdrawingschool.org
The Prince’s Foundation for The Built Environment
www.princes-foundation.org
The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts
www.princes-foundation.org/traditionalarts
The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust
www.psybt.org.uk
The Prince’s Trust
www.princes-trust.org.uk
The Prince of Wales’s Arts & Kids Foundation
www.artsandkids.org.uk
The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for
Integrated Health
www.fihealth.org.uk
The Prince of Wales’s International Business
Leaders Forum
www.iblf.org
The Prince of Wales’s Phoenix Trust/Regeneration
Through Heritage
www.thephoenixtrust.org.uk
Youth Business International
www.youth-business.org
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