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unusual facts about The Adolescent and Children's Trust


The Adolescent and Children's Trust

In June 2012 TV chef and bestselling cookery writer Lorraine Pascale became TACT’s first celebrity patron.


Baby Baby Baby

Stone performed the song at the Swarovski Fashion Rocks at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 18 October 2007, in aid of The Prince's Trust, as well as at the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on 14 September 2007.

Balmoral Castle

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone

Until 2011 it was used as a training venue for the City of Westminster College's performing arts, theatre lighting, sound engineering and media students, along with regularly visiting students from Ball State University and young people from The Prince's Trust.

Easter Road, Edinburgh

Most of the area comprises tenement housing built for the artisan class in the second half of the 19th century on mainly nursery ground feued on the eastern side by Baron Norton's Estate, (formerly belonging to the Logans of Restalrig) and on the western side by George Heriot's Trust and several other landowners.

From the Makers of...

From Cassette Two, Side One, track 4 onwards, all tracks were recorded live at the Prince's Trust Concert at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham in 1982.

The third disc was a recording of a live concert at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England for the Prince's Trust charity: the disc was subsequently re-released as a stand-alone live album in 1984, titled Live at the N.E.C.

Helen's Trust

The Duchess of Devonshire is the president of the Trust.

HM Prison Glen Parva

The prison also has links with organisations such as The Prince's Trust, Age Concern and National Grid plc to provide employment for Young Offenders on release.

Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman

After entering the House of Lords the more liberal aspects of his character dominated – he was chancellor of the University of Warwick, president of the British Institute of Human Rights, and worked on behalf of the Prince's Trust, the Birmingham Six, and Charter 88 amongst many other projects.

Patti Russo

Russo has performed for numerous charitable benefits including Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, Covenant House, The Painted Turtle, The Prince's Trust, breast cancer research, Hurricane Katrina relief, Blythedale Children's Hospital, Rock Against Cancer, and Queen AIDS charity concert.

Pete Kircher

Highlights of this period included playing at Live Aid and the National Bowl, and meeting HRH The Prince of Wales at a benefit gig for The Prince's Trust at the Birmingham NEC, an event preserved on the 1982 album Live at the N.E.C..

Richard Beck

He worked on a variety of artists, celebrities and events including: Janet Jackson, Tina Arena, M People, BBMak, Capital FM’s ‘Party in the Park’ for The Prince’s Trust (3 Years), The BRIT Awards (5 Years), Songs & Vision (Wembley Stadium), The MTV Awards and The Rolling Stones ‘Voodoo Lounge’ and ‘Bridges To Babylon’ European tours.

Shining Life Children's Trust

After the 2004 Tsunami, the trust worked with a fishing community in Talawatta, which had been directly affected by the disaster.

The second project was based in Moratuwa, a coastal shantytown, working with teenage mothers to equip them with skills, education and support to build a brighter future.

The trust's first project was in Matale, central Sri Lanka, providing home-based child care and nursery education to the pre-school children of a scattered rural community.

Tearing Us Apart

The live version was later released on the Royal Concert charity album in 1987, issued by The Prince's Trust.

Turner and Clapton performed the track as part of the 1986 Prince's Trust All-Star Rock Concert in London's Wembley Arena to celebrate the first 10 years of the Trust, then with a band including Phil Collins, Elton John, Mark Knopfler, Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Paul McCartney to name but a few.

The Prince's Trust

The Jason Kanabus Fund was created from the £2.5 million left to the Prince’s Trust by Jason Kanabus, a young farmer in Sussex who died from cancer in July 2006.

The trust still has some fundraising events, including a Rock Gala that aired on 25 December 2010 on DirecTV.

We Are Most Amused

We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales, in aid of The Prince's Trust.


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