The Prince of Wales met businesses involved in his Homewards project at the Vitality Stadium, home of AFC Bournemouth today and told attendees about his “interesting morning” meeting football legend Paul Gascoigne at a Pret a Manger café. Members of the Pret Foundation were among several national and local business representatives who joined William for a roundtable meeting about how companies can help tackle homelessness. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:13 I've never been to the Vitality Stadium, so it's very nice to be here.
00:15 Let's sneak in one day for a match.
00:17 (laughter)
00:18 It will be a bit warmer for Michael Malin and I'll have a watch.
00:21 (inaudible)
00:31 All these things that get lost in growing up.
00:34 So many schools and backgrounds,
00:35 we don't teach that, the basics, the fundamental, how to live a life.
00:38 How did you manage to navigate that to end up with a career here?
00:42 (inaudible)
00:47 How did you find that transition from the cost of care to the big wide world?
00:50 Was that quite a daunting phase for you?
00:51 I appreciate that for a while.
00:52 (inaudible)
00:56 Sorry, I'm running late.
00:57 - Thank you so much. - Please sit down.
00:59 Sorry to keep waiting.
01:00 Steve and I have had a rather interesting morning.
01:03 We've been to Marge, we've been to Bournemouth Football Club,
01:07 we've been gassing about time management.
01:09 - Even at Gatto. - Yes!
01:10 Even at Botton, so yeah, in prep.
01:12 So it's been a very interesting morning in Bournemouth.
01:14 So now I'll come to a finally.
01:17 It's been three months since we launched.
01:19 The first thing to say is thank you so much for all of you coming together.
01:22 And as is alluded to, it's obviously only a few months in,
01:25 but where did you guys manage to get around this?
01:26 I think that's a way away from here is how do I...
01:29 What is that blueprint for implementation?
01:31 ...within the project in terms of encouraging businesses to get involved with this.
01:35 Both in terms of the issue, it's actually a significant part of what...