The King’s Trust Group
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The King’s Trust Group is a global network of charities founded by His Majesty King Charles III (formerly His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales).
Our mission is to transform lives and build sustainable communities worldwide, by making a positive difference to the lives of young people and under-represented communities. We are active in over 20 countries, both within the Commonwealth and beyond.
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Our network includes the work of The Prince’s Trust in the UK plus The King’s Trust International, The King’s Trust Aotearoa New Zealand, The King’s Trust Australia, The King’s Trust Canada and The King’s Trust USA.
The King’s Trust Group Annual Report
During 2022/23, we formally established The King’s Trust Group, including The King’s Trust Group Company, which supports all the other The King’s Trust charities by sharing best practice, raising funds to support our global work, demonstrating our shared impact and managing shared risks.
With our partners, we supported almost 100,000 young people during 2022/23 to gain the skills they need to access the jobs of tomorrow. This included almost 67,000 young people in the UK and 32,000 across the following 21 countries: Australia, Barbados, Canada, Egypt, Ghana, Greece, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago and Uganda. We have also now started to support young people in the USA.
Our Founding Patrons
His Highness The Aga Khan is the Global Founding Patron of The King’s Trust Group and HSBC is our Global Founding Corporate Partner. Through their incredible generosity and thanks to our other valued supporters, we are expanding our work to transform young lives and build stronger communities across the world.
The King’s Trust Group report on the Future of Work
In August 2023, we released the third in our series of reports into young people’s views on the future of work. The report, which surveyed more than 12,000 young people from 10 countries, highlighted how the cost of living crisis has been devastating for many – with no improvement in global youth unemployment rates, the next generation urgently needs the right skills to move forward.
The King’s Trust Group Company
The role of King’s Trust Group Company is to support the other six King’s Trust charities and to encourage a common sense of purpose and strategy across the Group through sharing best practice, raising essential funds to support our work, demonstrating our shared impact and managing shared risks.
King’s Trust Group Company is a company limited by guarantee (Company Number 14142157) and a registered charity (Charity Number 1200643).
King’s Trust Group Company is the sole Member (or equivalent) of The King’s Trust International, The King’s Trust Aotearoa New Zealand, The King’s Trust Australia, The King’s Trust Canada and The King’s Trust USA.
The King’s Trust Group Company is an additional Member of The King’s Trust, alongside each of the existing 12 Trustees.
The King’s Trust Group Company Board
The Board of Trustees of The King’s Trust Group Company is independent from each of the other The King’s Trust charities and is solely responsible for the planning, strategy and governance of The King’s Trust Group Company.
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Alison Brittain CBE
ChairIn January 2023, Alison took on the roles of Chair of English football’s Premier League and Chair of Dunelm Group plc. Alison is also the Senior Independent Director at Experian plc and a Non-Executive Director at British Airways plc.
Until early 2023, Alison was the Chief Executive Officer of Whitbread PLC, the oldest and largest hospitality company in the UK. Previously, Alison was Group Director of Lloyd’s Banking Group’s Retail Division, the UK’s largest retail banking business; and Executive Director for Retail Distribution and Board Director at Santander UK PLC. She also held senior roles at Barclays Bank.
As Chair of The King ’s Trust Group Company, Alison and her fellow Trustees support The Prince’s Trust Group of charities around the world. Between 2016 and early 2023, Alison was the Deputy Chair and a Trustee of The Prince’s Trust in the UK.
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The Hon Julie Bishop (Chair, The King’s Trust Australia)
TrusteeJulie served as Australia’s 38th Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018. She was the first female to hold the role as well as the first female Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, serving for 11 years.
In a political career spanning over 20 years, Julie also served as Minister for Education, Science and Training, Minister for Women’s Issues and Minister for Ageing. Prior to entering politics, Ms Bishop was Managing Partner of the law firm Clayton Utz in Perth.
Julie is the Chancellor of Australian National University, chair of Telethon Kid’s Institute and a member of the international advisory boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, Afiniti, and the Human Immunome Project. During 2021, she undertook a 12-month research project as the Henry Kissinger Fellow of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University.
Julie has also established a boutique consultancy firm, Julie Bishop and Partners, which provides strategic advice and other support to a range of Australian and international companies.
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John Booth DL (Chair, The King’s Trust)
TrusteeJohn chairs the Trustees of The National Gallery and is a Trustee of the Chatsworth Settlement, the Arts Foundation and a number of other charities. He is a Fellow of Merton College and a member of the Chancellor’s Court of the University of Oxford, an ambassador for the homelessness charity Depaul International, Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex, and sits on the Main Honours Committee, chairing its Arts and Media Committee.
He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist with interests in a number of businesses in e-commerce, media and telecommunications. He is Chairman of the London Theatre Company and a non-executive director of several telecommunications and investment management companies.
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F. Mark M. Fell (Chair, The King’s Trust Canada)
TrusteeAs Vice Chair for Royal Bank of Canada’s Enterprise Strategic Client Group, Mark is responsible for directly supporting some of the Bank’s most significant ultra-high-net-worth families and family offices globally. Mark has been with RBC for over 20 years and recently served as Head of Family Office and Strategic Clients and was previously Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing for RBC Wealth Management.
Mark read law at the University of Oxford (MA, Oxon), has a BA Hons degree from Queen’s University in Canada and his ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto. He serves on the Board of a number of not-for-profit charities and associations in Canada. Mark lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.
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Jeremy Green CBE (Chair, The King’s Trust USA)
TrusteeJeremy is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Redmile Group, LLC, an investment firm that focuses on the health care sector. He has invested in life science companies for over 25 years. Prior to founding Redmile in 2007, he worked at Andor Capital, Salomon Brothers and SBC Warburg. Redmile’s investments have enabled the launch of innovative products and services, collectively generating over $60bn in revenues.
Jeremy has worked with The King’s Trust for over two decades initially in the UK. Since its founding in 2019, Jeremy has served as Chair of The King’s Trust USA (formerly Prince’s Trust USA) and as a trustee of The King’s Trust Group since 2022.
Jeremy is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He currently sits on the board of directors of EDH. He has previously served on the boards of One Medical (ONEM) and Alder BioPharmaceuticals (ALDR), the UK Government's Life Sciences Scale-up Task Force and has taught at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
In 2024 Jeremy was appointed as a CBE for services to Business, Philanthropy and support to The King’s Trust. He holds a Master’s Degree (biological sciences) from Oxford University. He currently lives in Paris, with his wife and three children.
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Shabir Randeree CBE (Chair, The King’s Trust International)
TrusteeShabir is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the Executive Chairman at DCD London & Mutual plc, former Interim Chairman of Al Baraka Bank South Africa and ex-Chairman of EIIB Bank UK. He was appointed as Chairman of The King’s Trust International in December 2021, having served as a Trustee for The Prince’s Trust.
Shabir is Chancellor of the University of East London, Chair of the Woolf Institute, Cambridge and served as Chair of Governors at Westminster Academy London from 2012-2022. He previously served on the Government Asia Task Force, Ethnic Minority Business Task Force and on the YPO International board 2016-19. In 2013 Shabir was awarded a CBE for his business, education and philanthropic contributions.
Shabir is a Centenary Fellow at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge and has Honorary Doctorates from the University of Warwick and Kingston University where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance. He also holds an MBA and is an Alumnus of London Business School.
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Andrew Williams (Chair, The King’s Trust Aotearoa New Zealand)
TrusteeAndrew was appointed Chairman of PTANZ in 2017. Prior to Andrew’s emigration to NZ in 2017, Andrew served as a member on the Maggie’s Board, alongside the former Duchess of Cornwall.
Andrew is the Co-Chairman of Alvarium, a global multi-family office, co-investment partner and merchant banking boutique providing tailored solutions for families, foundations and institutions across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Andrew directs Alvarium’s real estate investment strategies and oversees all of its real estate investments.
Dermot Finch
Chief Operating Officer
Dermot advises The King’s Trust Group Company Board and supports the Chief Executives of all the King’s Trust charities. Previously, Dermot was the Interim Chief Executive of each of The King’s Trust International, The King’s Trust Canada and The King’s Trust Australia; and before that was an Operations Director with The Prince’s Trust in the UK.
Before joining The King’s Trust, Dermot was a civil servant with HM Treasury (1994-2005) and the founding CEO of the Centre for Cities (2005-10), which produces independent research on the economic performance of UK cities.