THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE WILL VISIT TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLES
AND MIRA TECHNOLOGY PARK

Nuneaton, Warwickshire

Tuesday 20th February, 2018

The Duke of Cambridge will visit Triumph Motorcycles and MIRA Technology Park on Tuesday 20th February, for a day that celebrates world-class British vehicular manufacture, research and development.

At Triumph Motorcycles The Duke will tour the factory and walk the assembly line, meeting technicians and apprentices working on-site. His Royal Highness will then officially open the triumph Motorcycles Factory Visitor Experience, which showcases a collection of Triumph’s historic and modern achievements in motorcycle design, engineering, and racing. First established in 1902, Triumph Motorcycles celebrated 115 years of motorcycle manufacturing in 2017, and builds around 67,000 iconic bikes per year, which are sold in 57 countries across the world.

The Duke will then visit to MIRA Technology Park to see how HORIBA MIRA provides pioneering engineering, research and test services to the transport industry. His Royal Highness will view a selection of vehicles and equipment that have been developed at the Technology Park, which provides expansive Research and Development services utilising 38 separate facilities. The Duke will experience new technology that has been developed on the site, including driverless vehicles, as well as the high speed and wet weather handling test tracks. Finally, The Duke will attend a reception to meet apprentices and PhD students at various stages of their journey within the company. Since its launch in 2013, the MIRA Academy has been providing fundamental support to young people and apprentices. Currently, HORIBA MIRA employs 18 Apprentices through its MIRA academy programme, which offers salaried employment for each Apprentice from day one, with a structured programme of both academic and on-the-job training.

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THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE WILL VISIT SUNDERLAND

Wednesday 21st February, 2018

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit Sunderland on Wednesday 21st February.

The visit will showcase the city’s vibrant arts scene and engineering talent. Their Royal Highnesses will first visit The Fire Station, one of Sunderland’s most iconic buildings, recently converted into a music and arts hub.

On arrival, Their Royal Highnesses will have the opportunity to meet members of the local community who will be gathered outside The Fire Station. Inside they will enjoy colourful performances of music, dance and theatre from local children and young people, and will finish by officially opening The Fire Station.

The Duke and Duchess will then travel to see the Northern Spire, an ambitious and striking new bridge over the River Wear, due to open in spring 2018. The 1,550-tonne pylon structure is twice as high as Nelson’s Column and taller than Big Ben’s clock tower.

As a Sunderland City Council project, Northern Spire is a key part of a wider transport plan to improve links between the Port of Sunderland and the city centre with the A19. It will help attract new jobs and investment and will be the catalyst for major economic and regeneration benefits to Sunderland and the region.

Their Royal Highnesses will first meet local children whose generation will benefit from the bridge in the future, before officially crossing the bridge and meeting the engineers and construction workers who have made this a reality.

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Prince Harry to attend England Rugby Team Open Training Session

Twickenham Stadium, London

Friday 16th February, 2018

In his role as Patron of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), Prince Harry will attend the England rugby team open training session at Twickenham Stadium on Friday 16th February.

The training day is an opportunity for England Rugby to thank the rugby community for their continued support. The event at Twickenham Stadium will see around 10,000 supporters from clubs and schools filling the stands to watch the England senior squad in a training session. This will include young people who have benefited from Try for Change, an England Rugby programme which uses the power of rugby as a force for good to improve the lives of disadvantaged people in England and across the world.

Prince Harry will join these young people to learn more about the rugby projects they have
benefited from, thanks to funding from Try for Change. Prince Harry will then take his seat in the stands alongside the young people to watch the England team prepare for their next Natwest 6 Nations match. While the training session is taking place, Prince Harry will chat to the young people to hear about how rugby has helped to turn their lives around.

Prince Harry will then make his way on to the pitch to meet players from the England team as they finish their training session. Finally, the Try for Change team will be taken onto the pitch for a masterclass with some England players.

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THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE WILL ATTEND
THE EE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS

Royal Albert Hall, London

Sunday 18th February, 2018

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend the EE British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall. The Duke, President of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and The Duchess will meet BAFTA representatives and watch the ceremony. The Duke will also present the Fellowship award.

BAFTA is a world-leading independent arts charity that brings the very best work in film, games and television to public attention and supports the growth of creative talent in the UK and internationally. While BAFTA is well-known for celebrating excellence and  championing creativity through its awards, it is a charity committed to identifying talented individuals, and making sure they receive the encouragement, professional support and advice that will enable them to succeed, regardless of their background or other circumstances.

The Fellowship, which The Duke will present, is awarded annually at the ceremony, and is the highest accolade bestowed by the Academy to an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, television or games. The recipient of this year’s Fellowship will be the British filmmaker, Sir Ridley Scott.

In addition to its Awards ceremonies, BAFTA has a year-round learning and new talent programme, including a campaign to support young people from all backgrounds entering the film, games and television industries, which The Duke helped relaunch in 2013, and a scholarships programme, which features the ‘Prince William Scholarships in Film, Games and Television’.

The Duke has been President of the Academy since February 2010, and both His Royal Highness and The Duchess have supported BAFTA’s charitable activities by attending events across the charity’s learning programmes, including Young Game Designers and BAFTA Kids events, as well as others related to building cross-cultural collaborations with the creative industries in China.

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PRINCE HARRY TO VISIT STREETGAMES’ FIT AND FED HALF-TERM INITIATIVE

Brent

Thursday 15th February, 2018

Prince Harry will visit a Fit and Fed February half-term holiday activity programme on Thursday 15th February at Roundwood Youth Centre in Brent. The Fit and Fed Campaign aims to provide children and young people with free access to activity sessions and a nutritious lunch during school holidays. Sport at the Heart is a community sport and wellbeing charity which is part of the Fit and Fed campaign.

His Royal Highness will meet young volunteers and coaches from Sport at the Heart, who will be taking part in a handball ‘activator’ session. The training will be run by the StreetGames’ Training Academy, and will support young people to become sports coaches, who can then help out in their local community sport programmes. Prince Harry will then meet volunteers in the kitchen and serve up a healthy lunch for young children on the half-term programme. Finally, Prince Harry will visit children engaged in games and structured activities outside in the multi-use games area.

Fit and Fed is a campaign led by StreetGames that aims to tackle the holiday gap of hunger, inactivity, and isolation. Fit and Fed offer activity sessions and a nutritious meal every day for local children. 73% of the poorest families cannot always afford to feed their children during the school holidays, a gap which is estimated to affect 3 million children and young people across the UK, and 700,000 in London. In its first year, Fit and Fed supported 160 organisations to deliver free activity sessions, with food, on 251 sites. 14,074 children and young people were provided with 84,682 meals and snacks.

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PRINCE HARRY WILL ATTEND SIX NATIONS RUGBY MATCHES

Twickenham, London

Saturday 10th February, 2018

Prince Harry will attend two Six Nations rugby matches on Saturday 10th February, 2018.

Prince Harry will firstly attend the Women’s Six Nations where England’s Red Roses play Wales at The Stoop. This is the Red Roses’ first home fixture of the competition, and follows their recent win against Italy in the opening round. Before kick-off, Prince Harry will meet representatives from the RFU including some England players.

Prince Harry will then attend the NatWest 6 Nations England vs Wales match at Twickenham Stadium.

For more information on the RFU, please visit www.englandrugby.com

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THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BURLINGTON DANES

ACADEMY
London

Thursday 8 February, 2018

To help mark Children’s Mental Health Week (February 5th-9th) and Safer Internet Day (February 6th), The Duke of Cambridge has made an unannounced visit to Burlington Academy, London, to surprise children taking part in an assembly on cyberbullying and its effect on young people’s mental health.

Hosted by YouTuber Dan Howell, the assembly focused on cyberbullying and what can be done to combat it. Watching the assembly were pupils of Burlington Danes Academy, which is a comprehensive secondary school educating over 1,000 pupils aged 11-18.

They were joined by a number of pupils from Kensington Aldridge Academy (KAA) which had to close in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. Burlington Danes Academy hosted three year groups from KAA before a temporary school building was built on neighbouring land.

His Royal Highness took time during the assembly to talk about the Heads Together campaign on mental health, as well as meet with social media influencers and young people who’ve been working on the campaign for ‘Stop Speak Support’.

Stop Speak Support is a new digital code of conduct that was launched by The Duke of Cambridge in October, and is one of the outcomes of the Royal Foundation‘s Taskforce on Cyberbullying. The campaign aims to help young people navigate life online and support them in responding to cyberbullying.

PRINCE HARRY AND MS. MARKLE TO VISIT EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, Scotland

Tuesday, 13th February 2018

Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle will visit Edinburgh on Tuesday, 13th February on their first official joint visit to Scotland. Throughout the day Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will have the opportunity to meet members of the public, learn more about organisations that work in the local community and nationwide, and celebrate youth in the Scottish Year of Young People 2018.

Prince Harry and Ms. Markle’s first stop will be at the Esplanade in front of the iconic Edinburgh Castle, where they will be officially welcomed to the city by the Royal Marines Scotland Band. Prince Harry became Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Marines in December
2017.

Inside the Castle at the historic Edinburgh Garrison, which looks out across the city, Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will observe the firing of the One O’clock Gun. The tradition of firing a gun started in 1861 to mark time for ships in the Firth of Forth. Today the British Army fire a 105 millimetre L118 Light Gun, which is the model currently used in operations worldwide.

Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will then travel on to Social Bite, a social business and café located in Edinburgh’s New Town. Social Bite runs social enterprise cafés throughout Scotland and use this platform to distribute 100,000 items of food and hot drinks to homeless people each year, as well as employing staff who have experienced homelessness themselves. In the café, Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will learn more about the social enterprise, meet staff and tour the kitchen.

To conclude their visit, Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will attend a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse to celebrate youth achievements, marking Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018. The Year of Young People is an initiative that aims to inspire Scotland through its young people: celebrating their achievements, strengthening their voice on social issues and creating new opportunities for them to shine. Youth representatives from various charities and organisations that work with and for young people across the country will be present, and the reception will provide an opportunity for them to talk about their aspirations for the Year and the activities that they have been involved in so far.

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The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange Reception at Buckingham Palace

Monday 19th February, 2018

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge and HRH The Countess of Wessex will host a reception at Buckingham Palace on behalf of The Queen during London Fashion Week to celebrate and showcase a new creative initiative – the Commonwealth Fashion Exchange.

Launched on the 1st February by the Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange aims to create partnerships between established and emerging talent from across the 52 member countries, in the lead up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London this April.

The initiative uses fashion as a common language and platform to help people understand the modern Commonwealth in a different way. It will celebrate creativity, sustainable production and manufacturing, trade links and ethical supply chains across the fashion industry, from business and design to textile and fabric design and manufacturing, to craft and artisan skills.

Over the last six months, major fashion designers such as Stella McCartney (UK), Karen Walker (New Zealand) and Bibi Russell (Bangladesh) have partnered with artisan producers in small nations who exemplify traditional handcraft techniques and trades, with a view to creating a ‘skills exchange’. The reception at Buckingham Palace will showcase the best of Commonwealth contemporary fashion and creativity with an exhibition of some of the bespoke fashion ‘looks’ which are the result of these exchanges.

A global audience will also have access to view the designs through an online exhibition to be created on the Google Arts and Culture website. This platform will create a new community and network, which includes an evolving directory of artisans and designers from across the Commonwealth countries.

The Reception will bring together influential people from across the global fashion
industry, including designers, manufacturers, textile producers, and craftspeople.

The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange is an initiative which focuses on highlighting talent from across the 52 Commonwealth countries. The Exchange has been created by Ego-
Age, a consultancy which is working in partnership with the global fashion industry towards a sustainable future, in partnership with The Commonwealth Fashion Council, and with support from The British Fashion Council and NEST, a global NGO building a new economy and network for handworkers and artisans preserving cultural traditions and improving wellbeing and compliance.

Following a selection and matching process, designers and artisans were asked to produce a fashion ‘look’ showcasing the creative skill and design ethos, in keeping with core sustainable values set out in the Green Carpet Challenge Principles of Sustainable Excellence. The partnerships highlight traditional heritage, skills, craftsmanship and industry, as well as innovation and technology.

The Commonwealth is a network of 52 member countries which are bound by a common set of values and a shared mission to improve the wellbeing of all 2.4 billion Commonwealth citizens across the globe. The Commonwealth has achieved a great amount since its creation 68 years ago and remains a global beacon for democracy, human rights and the rule of law. As a voluntary network, the Commonwealth relies on soft power to effect change. Its authority comes from agreement and its influence from persuasion. As Head of the Commonwealth since she ascended the throne in 1953, Her Majesty The Queen has seen the organisation grow from 11 members to 52. Baroness Patricia Scotland is the 6th Secretary General of the Commonwealth, which covers a third of the world’s population – 2.4 billion citizens, 60% under the age of 30.

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The Commonwealth Diaspora Reception

Buckingham Palace

Wednesday 14th February, 2018

Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, will host a reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Commonwealth Diaspora community, in the lead up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London this April.

The reception offers an opportunity to recognise people of Commonwealth heritage who have made a positive contribution to business, community and culture in the United Kingdom.

Guests from all walks of life including representatives from business, politics, the arts, sport, diplomacy, religion, charities, youth and community groups will attend. Also present will be individuals from within the United Kingdom who have helped to strengthen relationships across Commonwealth networks.

The Commonwealth is an organisation which spans every geographical region, religion and culture – a vast community which embraces diversity among its 52 countries and almost 2.5 billion people, of which 60 per cent are under 30 years old.

The Queen has been Head of the Commonwealth throughout her 65 year reign. This is an important symbolic and unifying role. As Head, Her Majesty personally reinforces the links by which the Commonwealth joins people together from around the world.

Throughout The Queen’s reign, the Commonwealth has grown from just seven nations to 52 members representing almost 2.4 billion people. During her reign, Her Majesty has undertaken more than 200 visits to Commonwealth countries.

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