A new international charity launched last week to deliver the work of the Prince's Trust overseas, and has announced Ruth Ruderham as its fundraising director.

Prince’s Trust International was registered with the Charity Commission on 5 January 2015 and has been working on projects in Jordan, Oman, and Malta, but did not officially launch until last week. 

Prince Charles announced the launch of the charity at a special reception hosted by the Maltese president, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, and attended by several Commonwealth heads of state.

Prince’s Trust International aims to help unemployed young people around the globe into education, training and work by partnering with governments, agencies and corporates.

The charity’s chief executive is Alan Kennedy, who has been director of operations at the Prince’s Trust since 2011.

Its chairman is Sir Nigel Knowles, global co-chairman of international law firm DLA Piper.

Ruth Ruderham to be fundraising director

Ruderham (pictured) will join the youth charity in January from the Canal & River Trust, where she has also set up the fundraising function from scratch.

Ruderham has spent her career in the voluntary sector, leading fundraising strategies and teams at charities including Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth and Crisis. She is currently head of fundraising at the Canal & River Trust, one of the UK’s largest ever start-up charities, where she has built a mass fundraising programme from scratch, secured multiple seven-figure donations and built relationships with a range of major companies including Google and Marks & Spencer.

She is a member of several advisory panels including Rogare, the Fundraising Think Tank of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Plymouth University and the Institute of Fundraising National Convention. She is also a trustee of Oxfam GB and of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.