HRH Duke of Gloucester presents a Queen's award in Sussex

The Duke of Gloucester visited County Hall in Chichester on Tuesday 5th December to present the award to Building Heroes

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00:00 have this very pleasant duty of handing over the Queen's Award. I've done this from time

00:06 to time over the last few years and it's always given me pleasure to find out all sorts of

00:15 things that clever people have done and to have seen how the Queen's Award encourages

00:24 them and helps them and impresses their clients or customers. And I think this is the first

00:35 time, certainly for me, that I've handed over one to something so closely connected to County

00:43 Council and I congratulate those who first thought of it and those who put it into practice.

00:52 I seem to remember there's an alarming statistic that the building industry needs 100,000 new

00:59 recruits every year and they can only get about 60,000 from this country because they

01:08 all think, "Oh no, I should sit at a desk with a computer doing that. If I join the

01:13 building industry I'll get wet when it rains." And you have to prove that it's a much more

01:21 exciting business than doing this all day and show them that they can learn skill and

01:30 I think anybody who has a skill should be proud of it, particularly if they're paid

01:36 quite a lot, which they are in the building industry. So can I wish you every success

01:45 in your five years of this. You've then got to think of something else clever. I don't

01:52 quite know what you can do. Building industry and the church, do you think, or some other

02:01 means of employment. But may I wish you every luck and offer you my congratulations.