Social Enterprise
Duchy Originals
Duchy Originals Limited was established by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1990 to promote organic food and farming and to help protect and sustain the countryside and wildlife. The brand’s first product was the Oaten biscuit made from wheat and oats grown organically at the Duchy Home Farm at Highgrove.
Highgrove Enterprises
The Highgrove shop is open to all visitors who are invited to the Highgrove garden. In 2008, The Prince and The Duchess invited more than 30,000 people to go round the garden at Highgrove, finishing with refreshments in the Orchard Room.
North Highland Initiative
The Duke of Rothesay, as The Prince of Wales is known in Scotland, launched the North Highlands Initiative (NHI) in August 2005 to promote and develop the economy and to support the rural communities of the North Highlands.
The Prince’s Charities Events
The Prince’s Charities has established this trading subsidiary to undertake commercial activities in support of the group’s wider mission, with a programme of music, sport and film such as Concert for Diana, “The Friendship Cup” between India and Pakistan and the film Stairway to Heaven. In 2007, alone it generated over £3m.
Traditional Arts
Traditional Arts Ltd is a separate company established to develop and sell products based on the designs from students and alumni of The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts.
Turquoise Mountain Arts
Turquoise Mountain Arts is the trading arm of the Turquoise Mountain, an organisation working on the economic, social and cultural regeneration of a precinct in Kabul’s old city and running Afghanistan’s only Centre of Traditional Afghan Arts and Architecture with schools of ceramics, woodworking and calligraphy.
