With a backdrop of mass unemployment in the UK, and a feeling young people were being left behind, HM The King uses his Navy severance pay of £7,600 to establish pilot projects for young people including lifeguard training for young offenders; the conversion of an old cricket pavilion for inspiring musicians and grants for unemployed young people.
The Youth Business Initiative, now the Enterprise programme, is launched with unemployment at a 50-year high and in the wake of nine days of riots in Toxteth, Liverpool - the programme has so far supported over 86,000 entrepreneurs to start their own business.
The foundation of the Team self-development programme is launched in Wales and today is delivered in countries from Barbados to Malaysia.