We must save the over-50s from the 職業 scrapheap says Charles: Prince speaks of 欠如（する） of value 苦しむd by middle-老年の who are out of work

• Talked with pride about PRIME - The Prince's 率先 For 円熟した 企業
  
• Charity helps 失業した 円熟した 労働者s start their own 商売／仕事
  
• It has already helped more than 23,000 in England and むちの跡s

By Rebecca English for the Daily Mail

Published: 00:40 BST, 11 September 2013 | Updated: 12:33 BST, 11 September 2013

Prince Charles has 配達するd an 情熱的な 嘆願 to save the spiralling number of over-50s 粉々にするd by redundancy from the scrapheap.

He spoke from the heart about the ‘欠如（する） of value’ 苦しむd by many of the 概算の 425,000 middle-老年の men and women 現在／一般に 失業した in Britain.

But he also talked with pride about a charity he has 始める，決める up to help 円熟した 労働者s who are out of a 職業 or 直面するing the 脅し of redundancy to start their own 商売／仕事.

Prince Charles talked with pride about a charity he has 始める，決める up to help 円熟した 労働者s who are out of a 職業 or 直面するing the 脅し of redundancy to start their own 商売／仕事

PRIME ? The Prince’s 率先 For 円熟した 企業 ? is the only organisation of its 肉親，親類d in the country to 申し込む／申し出 商売／仕事 advice and 助言者ing to older people and has already helped more than 23,000 in England and むちの跡s.

Charles said: ‘People feel they have no value any more and once you’re made redundant 明確に it’s very difficult.

‘The 広大な／多数の／重要な thing about all this 成果／努力 is that no one should be afraid of 支援 someone because of their age because at the end of the day, if it’s a good idea, it’s a good idea, whatever age you are.

‘So we 目的（とする）, through PRIME, to show that there’s still life in the old dog yet! And so often we find that over-50s who start their own 商売／仕事s 現実に are more 維持できる, ーに関して／ーの点でs of a 百分率 of the success 率, than those who are younger.

‘So I think probably age and experience and 知恵 does help you.’

Speaking at St James’s Palace after a 歓迎会 to celebrate the entrepreneurs PRIME has helped to create, Charles, who turns 65 himself this year, could barely hide his 失望／欲求不満 that so many older people are 効果的に 存在 put out to pasture after redundancy.

Support: Charles, who turns 65 himself this year, hosted a 歓迎会 at St. James's Palace, where guests 含むd actress Lynda Bellingham (pictured)

He talked about the dent in self-信用／信任 that a once working, 生産力のある member of society can experience when they suddenly lose their 職業 ? ‘a crying shame’, he said ? when so many still need to 供給する for their families and have a 願望（する） to 与える／捧げる.

人物／姿／数字s from the Office for 国家の 統計（学） 最高潮の場面 the nightmare 直面するing a 世代 of older people when they are made redundant in their 50s.

Since the 後退，不況 began in 2008, the number of 失業した people 老年の 50 and above has ロケット／急騰するd by nearly 80 per cent to 425,000.

Of the total, one in four has been 猛烈に looking for work without success for more than two years ? which means self-雇用 is a hugely attractive proposition.

Charles said that while he was proud of the work that his more 井戸／弁護士席-known charity, The Prince’s 信用, had done in helping young people on to the 職業 ladder, he felt that there was an 平等に important ? and 攻撃を受けやすい ? section of society that needed his help.

PRIME, 始める，決める up in 199 9, has 活発に helped to 始める，決める up more than 5,000 商売／仕事s, with a 殺到する of people 捜し出すing support in 最近の years.

Charles said: ‘People were 令状ing to me, they still do, that there isn’t anything out there to give them any help.

‘We can help people who want to develop a hobby いつかs into a viable 商売／仕事. We run courses which give them an idea about 企業 and 商売／仕事 計画（する）s and how you manage cashflow and marketing and all these things, and 供給する them with a 助言者.

‘We need to spread the word that PRIME 存在するs and we’re here to help.’

Read more at www.prime.org.uk