The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation

Transforming lives and building sustainable communities

For over 40 years His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has been a leader in identifying charitable needs and setting up and driving forward charities to meet it.

From the early days of The Prince's Trust in the mid-1970s, his charities have grown to represent a broad range of areas including, the Built Environment, the Arts, Responsible Business and Enterprise, Young People, Global Sustainability and Rural Affairs. The Prince of Wales carries out dozens of engagements every year in support of his charities. Collectively The Prince of Wales's Charities raise more than £100million annually to transform lives and build sustainable communities in the UK and overseas.

For more details please visit The Prince of Wales's Charities.

Founded in 1979 and incorporated in 2008, The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation (PWCF) supports the charitable work of His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George Prince of Wales.

PWCF is a grant making organization that supports a wide range of causes, the primary areas of interest being the built environment, responsible business and enterprise, young people and education, and global sustainability.

Highgrove Enterprises and Duchy Originals Limited are subsidiaries of The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation. Profits generated by sales of 'Waitrose Duchy Organic' and Highgrove products, and from events and tours of the Gardens at Highgrove, are donated to the Foundation. This enables the Foundation to support charitable causes and make a strategic impact for good.

Over the last 25 years, more than £7 million has been raised for The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund through garden tours, events, retail and catering at Highgrove. 

Further details on the causes supported by the Foundation and Highgrove Enterprises are available at Small Grant Beneficiaries - The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation.

HRH The Prince of Wales Patron for Campaign for Wool

The Princes Trust comprises of a network of charities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada

The Prince of Wales meets beneficiaries of the Prince of Wales's Foundation Romania