The Prince's Trust Council

The Prince’s Trust Council is accountable in law for the work of The Trust. It sets the strategy and agrees The Trust’s business plan and budget and has authority to take all decisions and to set all policy.

Chairman: Charles Dunstone

Charles joined The Council in 2000 and became Chairman of Prince's Trust in June 2009. At age 25, he set up The Carphone Warehouse with an investment of £6,000 and has since built it into Europe's largest independent retailer of mobile communications.

He has been key to the development of many fundraising activities and events including Fashion Rocks and The Prince's Trust’s 30th Birthday concert at the Tower of London in 2006. Charles is also Chairman of The Prince's Trust Enterprise Fellowship.

Patrick Passley

Patrick joined The Council in 2001 and is Managing Director of the Paralegal Charity. He is the former National Amateur Boxing Super-heavyweight Champion and represented Great Britain at the Commonwealth Games. He served as Commissioner for Racial Equality (1999-2003), Special Adviser to the Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality (2003-2004).

Heather Hancock

Heather joined The Trust in 2000 as Chairman of our Council for Yorkshire and The Humber and joined The Council in October 2001. Now a partner at Deloitte, she was the first Chief Executive of The Millennium Commission and Chief Executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.

Michael Marks CBE

Michael is founding partner of NewSmith Capital Partners LLP. He joined the Council in early 2004 after retiring as Chairman of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Michael started his career with Smith Bros in 1958 and was appointed a director there in 1975. He became Chief Executive of Smith New Court in 1987 and Executive Chairman 1995.

Lloyd Dorfman CBE

Lloyd is the Founder and Chairman of the Travelex Group, the world’s largest foreign exchange and business payments specialist.

In 2001 Lloyd Dorfman was the winner of the Consumer Business Category in the UK “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards sponsored by Ernst & Young, Citibank and The Times. In 2002 he received the British American Chamber of Commerce’s UK Entrepreneurial Award, and the Institute of Economic Affairs’ Free Enterprise Award. He is a Non-Executive Director of M & C Saatchi plc, Deputy Chairman of Quest Ltd, a Governor of St Paul’s School, London, Chairman of The Roundhouse, a Director of the Royal National Theatre, and an Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford.

William Eccles

William has spent most of his career with Graphite Capital, a UK private equity firm, where he was a senior partner. He worked part time for Fairbridge from 2005, joining the board in 2006 and becoming Chairman in 2009.

William is Chairman of two companies in the Graphite portfolio: U-POL, a manufacturer of automotive refinish products, and TMP, a recruitment communications company. He has established a charitable trust which focuses on the conservation of highly threatened tropical rainforest habitats and on supporting young people in the UK.