Town ready to welcome Prince
GROWERS, sellers and food enthusiasts of all types will be the focus of the royal visit to Todmorden next week.
Prince Charles will arrive next Wednesday at Todmorden station on the Royal Train, which runs on sustainable bio-fuel, and then conduct a tour of the town centre visiting the market, Hippodrome theatre and health centre along the way. He will be shown around the growing spaces in the town centre by Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET) volunteers as well as meeting those who sell and make local produce.
Paul Clarke, of Incredible Edible, said he hoped the visit will benefit the wider community of Todmorden. "IET is a group that is actually doing things in the town so it's good for Prince Charles to visit Todmorden to see a community project in action. His ideas on sustainability have a lot in common with what we are doing here already. It will be interesting to find out what he thinks of Todmorden after he's been."
The visit is part of the prince's Start tour to promote sustainable community living, which also includes three national festivals, and a garden party at the prince's home, Clarence House. Billed as a garden party to make a difference the Clarence House event will take place over 12 days from September 8 to 19.
The week-long tour will begin in Glasgow, before heading to Edinburgh, Carmarthen, Bristol and Newcastle before stopping off at Todmorden. The tour will then continue on to Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham and London as the prince highlights some of the best community sustainability projects in the country.
Members of IET met Prince Charles last year at an event organised by the Sustainable Development Commission in London, at which IET was named as one of 19 break-through projects nationally recognised for their work into sustainable living.
Start builds on the work already promoted through Business in the Community (BITC), an organisation of which he has been president for 25 years. Liz Needleman, the Yorkshire and Humber regional director of BITC, said: "Start is the next phase in this journey, aimed at inspiring and supporting individuals as well as businesses to understand what a sustainable future looks like; that it is a better future, and how they might start moving towards it."
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