The Prince's Charities

For over 40 years, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has been a leader in identifying charitable need and setting up and driving forward charities to meet it. Inspired by The Prince’s values of harmony and sustainability, The Prince of Wales's charities work to transform lives and build sustainable communities. They include The Prince’s Trust Group, The Prince’s Foundation, The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund, and The Royal Founding Patronages. The Prince's charities address needs across a broad range of areas, including: the built environment, the arts, responsible business and enterprise, young people, global sustainability and rural affairs.

The Prince's Trust was established in 1976 to help transform the lives of 11 to 30-year-olds who are unemployed or struggling in school. The Prince's Trust has supported more than 900,000 young people since its inception, three quarters of whom move into work, education or training after completing their programme.

The Prince's Foundation was created in 2018 by the merging of four existing charities: The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community, The Prince’s Regeneration Trust, The Great Steward of Scotland’s Dumfries House Trust, and The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts.

Dumfries House addresses all three of these aims. The house itself is a stunning 18th century stately home in Ayrshire, Scotland. With free entry and parking, visitors can enjoy the house, and its 2,000 acres of grounds, 365 days a year. But Dumfries House is much more than just an impressive tourist attraction. It was saved and restored following the intervention, in 2007, of The Duke of Rothesay (as The Prince is known in Scotland). The estate is today home to six bespoke training centres, offering education and training programmes in arts and crafts, hospitality, local history, and care of the natural world.

Continuing the work of The Prince's Regeneration Trust, The Prince's Foundation supports and strengthens communities by working with them to restore and re-use important buildings. Their priority has always been to work in areas of deprivation, which will benefit most from the regeneration and economic growth on offer.

Continuing the work of The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community, The Prince's Foundation teaches and demonstrates sustainable development by placing community engagement at the heart. The Prince's Foundation's built environment projects range from renovating community spaces for local people, to transforming derelict buildings into thriving visitor attractions.

The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts was founded in 2004 to teach the principles and techniques of the traditional arts from the world's greatest civilisations - including mosaics, tapestry, drawing and geometry. The aim is to regenerate the traditional cultural heritage of different regions and communities.

The Turquoise Mountain Foundation is one of The Prince's Royal Founding Patronages. It was established in 2006 to preserve and regenerate historic areas and communities with a rich cultural heritage. The charity now works in Afghanistan, Myanmar and the Middle East to revive traditional crafts, creating jobs, skills, and a renewed sense of pride.  Since 2006, Turquoise Mountain has restored 150 historic buildings, trained over 6,000 artisans, treated more than 100,000 patients, graduated hundreds of talented artisans, and generated over $6m in international sales.