The Prince's Charities Foundation

The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation is one of the largest independent foundations in the UK. It was founded by The Prince of Wales in 1979.

The work of the Charitable Foundation is two-fold:

Inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales’s values of harmony and sustainability, the Charitable Foundation aims through its grant making and other charitable activities to transform lives and build sustainable communities. This is achieved locally through supporting causes such as community projects, nationally through grants to charities such as Plantlife International, The Prince’s Trust, Soil Association and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust and globally through the Charitable Foundation’s International Sustainability Unit.

The International Sustainability Unit (ISU) is an initiative of The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation. The ISU works to facilitate consensus on how to resolve some of the key environmental challenges facing the world, specifically those to do with food security, ecoystems resilience and the depletion of natural capital. To achieve this, the ISU brings together partners from across government, private and NGO sectors to pilot practical programmes in marine and sustainable agriculture. The impact of the work of the ISU is evident in Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia and Brazil where it has pioneered projects to slow deforestation. The ISU has also published two key pieces of research on the economic opportunity of sustainably managed fisheries and sustainable food production.

The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) Project is part of The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation. The A4S project and its affiliate organisation the International Integrated Reporting Council (the IIRC), encourages the responsible business community to recognize the benefits of considering the environment and wider society as part of their day-to-day business decisions; and establish a global framework for integrated corporate reporting.

The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation supports The Prince’s Charities to work collaboratively in communities such as Burnley, Tottenham, Redcar (Middlesbrough), Burslem (Stoke-on-Trent), East Ayrshire and Llandovery. In the last decade, The Prince of Wales has been determined to encourage his charities to work collaboratively and make more impact in disadvantaged communities. The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation supports this work, which goes under the banner of "The Place Strategy".

In 2007, His Royal Highness consulted local community leaders in Burnley as to whether The Prince’s Charities – working in partnership - could support the regeneration of the town. With the encouragement of public, private and voluntary sector leaders a five-year programme began involving twelve of The Prince's Charities working across the built environment, young people and education, business and enterprise support, and community and arts engagement. The Prince of Wales has visited Burnley to see progress three times over the five years and convened a regeneration summit in May 2012 in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen.

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