About us
Our mission is two-fold: to support young people in the United States to meet their full potential and to provide fundraising support for all The King’s Trust Charities.
In the US we focus on two areas of need: Employability and Enterprise, targeting young people aged 11-30 from underserved communities, and those underachieving in school.
Driven by Purpose
Our Employment programs support young people at all stages of their journey towards employment, including those who need extra help before they are ready to secure a job and those who are actively seeking work.
Our Enterprise programs give young people the chance to explore starting their own business and equip budding entrepreneurs with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed.
A message from His Majesty King Charles III
[Music] thank you in the mid 1970s I think when I left the Royal Navy unemployment in the United Kingdom was was one of the pressing issues of the time for young people the problem as always was not merely the lack of opportunity represented by joblessness but the feeling uh that they were being left behind and and it seemed as clear to me then as it does now that we should do something to try to make a difference however small by helping young people to find work or training we hope that perhaps we would be able to change some individuals lives for the better thankfully the reputation of my trust had gradually reached many leaders overseas from Greece to Ghana and part of the reason for for that perhaps is that some of the young people we’ve helped over the years have become household names people like Idris Elba Dynamo and David oriolo who who came to us as teenagers for help to start their careers and then we have Business Leaders like Charlotte mensah whose hairdressing business we helped start 30 years ago in addition there are all the amazing performers who have helped the trust such as Beyonce Lionel Richie amuse [Music] thank you and please say that my princess trust is operating in 18 countries 15 of them are in the Commonwealth over the years that my trust has done a lot I think to bring attention to the amazing achievements of young people when given the right training and the right opportunities so we will continue to help young people to understand the immeasurable difference they can make to society when they achieve their goals and we’ll go on being there to help them as there is still a great deal to do [Music] [Applause] foreign
1.5M+
Young People Served
20+
Countries Served
66%
Gone to Work or Training
50
Years of Service
Going on 50 years, The Trust was established by HM King Charles III, then His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, against a backdrop of widespread unemployment. Today, its work has transformed the lives of over 1.5 million young people in the US and around the globe.
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