The Built Environment
At a time when there is increasing pressure for new buildings and green field development, it is important to show how historic buildings can provide interesting places in which to live and work and be the catalyst for major regeneration schemes.
The Great Steward of Scotland’s Dumfries House Trust
In June 2007, HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay led a consortium of organisations and individuals to rescue Dumfries House for the nation, in what was described as the ‘save of the century’.
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment is The Prince’s main charity concerned with designing, planning and building in an environmentally sustainable way.
The Prince’s Regeneration Trust
The Prince’s Regeneration Trust has dual charitable objects which cover both heritage and regeneration: the preservation of buildings, monuments, structures or sites in the United Kingdom of particular beauty or historical and architectural interest and the promotion of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation.
Turquoise Mountain
Turquoise Mountain was founded in January 2006 by our joint presidents, HRH The Prince of Wales and HE President Hamid Karzai, with the three-fold goal of regenerating a historic area of Afghanistan's capital, training men and women in Afghan traditional arts, and spurring the sustainable development of the nation’s craft industries.
