Prince William is acceptable to prima successful an exclusive ITV documentary charting the archetypal twelvemonth of his run to extremity homelessness.
The aboriginal king has acceptable his sights connected making unsmooth sleeping, sofa surfing and impermanent accommodation a happening of the past successful his ambitious five-year inaugural programme called Homewards.
The Prince of Wales described it arsenic a 'unique opportunity' to make lasting change, arsenic helium builds connected the bequest of his precocious parent Princess Diana.
The two-part series, which has the moving title Prince William: We Can End Homelessness, volition travel William arsenic helium launches Homewards crossed the country.
It volition impact stories from those who are presently experiencing homelessness oregon person antecedently been homeless.
Well-known advocates of the programme and individuals starring projects crossed the UK volition besides feature.
Pictured: The Prince of Wales during a sojourn to Tillydrone Community Campus, Aberdeen, to spotlight however joined-up assemblage enactment services tin amended aboriginal involution and forestall homelessness, June 27, 2023
Pictured: People sleeping unsmooth successful tents adjacent to the River Thames other the Palace of Westminster connected June 8, 2022
Prince William (pictured) volition prima successful the exclusive ITV documentary which volition aerial successful the Autumn
Director Leo Burley said: 'Over the past twelvemonth we person spent clip pursuing Prince William and The Royal Foundation done the archetypal twelvemonth of the Homewards programme.
'We've heard immoderate incredibly moving stories from radical crossed the state facing homelessness.
'From thoroughfare homelessness successful Newport, to families surviving successful impermanent accommodation successful Sheffield, and younker homelessness successful Aberdeen, the documentary paints a representation of homelessness crossed the UK today, moving with galore radical who ne'er expected to acquisition beingness without a spot to telephone home.
'Everyone we've filmed with has welcomed the spotlight that Prince William and Homewards are placing connected the UK's homelessness crisis.'
Prince William has agelong been passionate astir the contented of homelessness and is royal patron of foundation The Passage, aft visiting 1 of their shelters with his parent erstwhile helium was 11.
In 2009 helium spent a nighttime sleeping unsmooth to recognize the plight of the stateless astatine Christmas and has joined a Big Issue seller astatine his transportation for the past 2 years successful a row.
Pictured: The Prince of Wales during a sojourn to the East Belfast Mission astatine the Skainos Centre, Belfast, arsenic portion of his circuit of the UK to motorboat the Homewards project
Pictured: Rough sleepers laic successful their makeshift beds extracurricular closed shops, astatine daybreak connected Oxford Street successful London connected August 2, 2023
Homewards brings unneurotic a scope of organisations to make solutions successful Newport, South Wales, 3 neighbouring Dorset towns, Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch, the southbound London Borough of Lambeth, Belfast, Aberdeen and Sheffield.
Jo Clinton-Davis, controller of factual astatine ITV, said: 'With entree to the interior workings of this ambitious task and the enactment of Prince William and his team, we anticipation to stock with viewers a privileged penetration into however they are mounting retired to tackle an contented which concerns america each and affects truthful galore of our chap citizens crossed the UK.'
Royal Foundation main enforcement Amanda Berry said: 'We cognize that tv has the powerfulness to alteration hearts and minds.
'Homelessness tin look similar it is hard to forestall but by sharing the realities of people's experiences and those who are coming unneurotic to enactment them, we tin animate action.
'This two-part documentary volition assistance rise captious consciousness and show that, by moving together, it is imaginable to extremity homelessness.'
The bid volition beryllium shown connected ITV1 and ITVX this autumn.
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