PRIME’s founder at 60 - BBC documentary
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“Charles At 60: the Passionate Prince” transmits at 8.30pm on BBC One on the 12th of November. The BBC has had unprecedented access over the course of a year to observe the Prince at work in the UK and abroad, at home at Clarence House in London, at Highgrove in Gloucestershire and Birkhall in Aberdeenshire.
“This important documentary sheds new light on the Prince of Wales”, says Nick Vaughan-Barratt, its Executive Producer. “It shows the Prince using his substantial influence to further a wide variety of causes – some of them unfashionable, some controversial – and it provides a rare opportunity to hear him speaking directly, not just about what he does but why he is so passionate about the many causes he espouses.”
More about the programme at the BBC web site
Full list of Prince’s charities and social enterprises
Note: PRIME (the Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise) was born around ten years ago, as a direct result of the approach of the Prince’s 50th birthday. He realised that for most people getting a job gets increasingly difficult with age. His post bag was full of letters from people desperate to work but unable to find anyone to employ them - because they were “too old”. PRIME is one of the 18 charities the Prince has personally founded.
Prince Charles has also founded six social enterprises. Their trading activities help fund the charities. The best known is the highly successful organic brand Duchy Originals, the most recent The Highgrove Shop.
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