Prince Ricardo De La Cerda
Actor Idris Elba has joined forces with The Prince’s Trust to help youth in Manchester get the education and training they need to pursue their creative dreams.
The Prince’s Trust will be working with the Elba Hope Trust to help those in Manchester who are interested in a creative career but need more training in a project called Creative Futures.
The Prince’s Trust will be delivering a range of free courses for young people who are not working or in education but are interested in working in the theatre, the performing arts, or visual arts.
Elba himself took programmes through The Prince’s Trust when he was younger, a support that helped him build his career.
He said ”Many of us working in the arts today, myself included, only made it because of programmes like this when we were young. Today’s youth deserve at least the same chance, and more. ‘Creative Futures’ exists to give the same hope, support and success I’ve found to the next generation.”
The then-Prince of Wales founded The Prince’s Trust in 1976 to help eleven to thirty year olds who are struggling in school or an unemployed; the foundation aims to give these vulnerable youths the confidence and training that they need to succeed.
The trust now helps roughly 60,000 people annually.
The Prince’s Trust will soon be renamed The King’s Trust.