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The Prince’s Countryside Fund (PCF), a subsidiary of The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF), is delighted to share the release of a new guide, designed to help farmers understand and talk about climate change.
The guide, ‘A-Zero: A farmer’s guide to breaking free from environmental jargon’ was launched on the 15th July at the Great Yorkshire Show by His Royal Highness in his role as patron of the Prince’s Countryside Fund.
The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund is delighted to announce the appointment of three new trustees to The Prince’s Countryside Fund board: Heather Hancock, Steve Murrells, and Baroness Kate Rock (L-R, above).
The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund has supported the Soil Association for more than five years by awarding over £3.5 million to enable farmers to research the issues that matter to them and their livelihoods.
Thanks to the customers of Waitrose Duchy Organic, we continue to deliver on our commitment to promote Good Food, Good Farming and Good Causes, by supporting Innovative Farmers (part of the Duchy Futures Farming Programme) which includes a new study into the future of agroforestry in the UK. In particular, it investigates whether agroforestry could be a viable way to protect farmland and continue to farm sustainably through the climate crisis.
Our small grant programme will re-open this summer. We will seek to prioritise available grant funding to support those organisations that are delivering projects in communities severely impacted by the pandemic.
Please re-visit our website for further updates on our small grant programme and specific re-opening date. In the meantime, please contact us if you have an urgent query.
For more than a decade, PWCF has supported Turquoise Mountain of which The Prince of Wales is Royal Founding Patron. Staff, friends and supporters of Turquoise Mountain around the world have come together to run and bike over 1,000 Mountain Miles, with a 30-mile bike ride through the hills of the California coast, runs along the coast of Cornwall, and through the beautiful landscapes of Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, to raise over £20,000 for The Ferozkoh Family Health Centre in Kabul.
The Sustainable Food Trust (SFT), a PWCF grant beneficiary, has partnered with leading UK retailers, farming organisations, banks, investors and NGOs to form the Global Farm Metric – a coalition calling for an international common framework for measuring the sustainability of food and farming systems.
