His Royal Highness, Prince William’s visit to Wolf Studios Wales

His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, recently visited Bad Wolf Studios Wales in Cardiff as part of his ongoing commitment to supporting the creative industries. During the engagement, Prince William spoke with some of the trainees who have been nurtured through Bad Wolf’s Screen Alliance Wales training initiative and who have subsequently gone on to build their TV careers in South Wales, they are also recipients of The Prince William BAFTA Bursary programme.

During the visit, Bad Wolf CEO Jane Tranter gave The Prince a tour around the set of the forthcoming BBC/BritBox series ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ and gave him the opportunity to step foot inside the TARDIS on the Doctor Who set.  Allison Dowzell, Managing Director of Screen Alliance Wales (SAW) also introduced His Royal Highness to SAW trainees who have all gained their first experience of working in television through paid traineeships.

His Royal Highness also met schoolchildren from St Albans R.C. Primary School in Tremorfa, Cardiff, in the Screen Alliance Wales classroom during a puppetry workshop held by SAW Education and Training Executive Sarah O’Keefe.  The puppets were used to represent characters’ daemons in the BBC series His Dark Materials and the class was one of many workshops that SAW holds to give young people in Wales first-hand experience of the many different roles in the TV industry.

Screen Alliance Wales has arranged 3,772 studio visits including classroom lessons since its inception and created 149 paid traineeships on Welsh TV productions including Industry, Doctor Who and The Other Bennet Sister.

Jane Tranter said: “It was a complete joy to show Prince William around Bad Wolf.  We are so incredibly proud of the outreach work being done by Allison Dowzell and the team at Screen Alliance Wales, and for Prince William to help highlight the work being done at the studios means a great deal. He was introduced to trainees from a wide range of departments, and it was fantastic to see him take such an interest in the new generation of TV creatives. We are so proud that many of the SAW trainees have gone on to be awarded Prince William BAFTA bursaries, and His Royal Highness was fascinated to hear how each of the trainees was using their bursary to further their careers.”