Charles’ Duchy food company boosts charity by £3.6million

PRINCE Charles’s organic food company has made millions for charities following a surge in planet-saving innovations.

His Duchy Organic Range has posted profits of £3.625million for 2020 – up from £3.417m in 2019.

Parent organisation The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation will get the cash alongside a payment of £100,000 to

Charles’ Countryside

Fund. Duchy’s recent green advances include home compostable banana bags and fruit punnets – innovations that will reduce packaging and food waste. Charles founded the brand in 1990 and after several years of substantial losses, the firm started to turn a profit in the late 1990s.

It partnered with Waitrose in 2010 and has raised a total of £23.5m for charities.

The firm said: “The Duchy brand seeks to create a positive social and economic effect on the communities of its producers.”

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