{"id":186784,"date":"2025-12-16T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186784\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:35:08","slug":"prince-william-stars-in-film-as-new-role-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186784\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William stars in film as new role announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William and former England footballer Jill Scott MBE appear together in a new short film launched today by Fields in Trust to celebrate the charity’s centenary.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales, who serves as the organisation’s patron, and Scott, its president, are featured walking through Windlesham Field of Remembrance Park in the footage.<\/p>\n

The park is among nearly 3,000 green spaces across the UK that have been permanently safeguarded through the charity’s work.<\/p>\n

Fields in Trust released the film to draw attention to the critical role that parks and playing fields play in community wellbeing during this landmark anniversary year.<\/p>\n

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Prince William and former England footballer Jill Scott MBE appear together in a new short film launched today by Fields in Trust to celebrate the charity’s centenary.<\/p>\n

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Fileds In Trust<\/p>\n

Throughout the film, the pair explore the significance of outdoor spaces for local communities before engaging with residents who use the park regularly.<\/p>\n

The footage also captures them taking part in coaching a football session with pupils from a nearby school.<\/p>\n

Fields in Trust describes itself as the only UK charity with a sole focus on safeguarding parks, playgrounds, playing fields and other green areas.<\/p>\n

The organisation emphasises that its work has become increasingly vital, noting that most of these spaces currently lack any form of legal protection.<\/p>\n

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The Prince of Wales, who serves as the organisation’s patron, and Scott, its president, are featured walking through Windlesham Field of Remembrance Park in the footage.<\/p>\n

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Fileds In Trust<\/p>\n

Once such land is lost to development, the charity warns, it cannot be recovered.<\/p>\n

The charity’s statistics paint a stark picture of the current situation: just 6 per cent of green space in the UK benefits from legal protection.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, half the population resides more than a ten-minute walk from their nearest playing field, whilst a third of children do not have access to a playground within easy reach of their home.<\/p>\n

In its YouTube caption accompanying the film, Fields in Trust stated: “We believe access to green space is a right, not a privilege.<\/p>\n

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The organisation emphasises that its work has become increasingly vital, noting that most of these spaces currently lack any form of legal protection.<\/p>\n

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Fileds In Trust<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s why we legally protect the UK’s parks, playgrounds, playing fields and green spaces. Forever.”<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales is often seen supporting the Lionesses and England\u2019s men\u2019s team at football matches in the UK and abroad.<\/p>\n

England star Lucy Bronze opened up on the personal connection Prince William has developed with the Lionesses in his role as Patron of the Football Association.<\/p>\n

She told Hello: “He’s been to almost every pre-camp, and he always comes and says good luck to us in person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William and former England footballer Jill Scott MBE appear together in a new short film launched today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,8346,111,139,69,4289,9855],"class_list":["post-186784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-middleton","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-william","tag-royal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}