PRINCESS Anne will be taking in both city and countryside when she visits Worcestershire next month.

The Princess Royal will be visiting Worcester’s Citizens Advice Bureau followed by two community-based projects at Top Barn just outside of Worcester.

She will start her tour of the two places on Monday, September 22, when she visits staff and volunteers at Worcester Citizens Advice in Hopmarket.

Centre manager Michael Gardner said they invited the Princess as she was the patron of the national Citizens Advice Bureaux, and they wanted her to see the work they did.

Mr Gardner said: “She is coming to see a working day and also to recognise the work we and the volunteers do, particularly those who have been long-serving.”

The Worcester CAB, which has been running in the city for the past 33 years, gives advice to people on anything from debt and welfare to benefits and employment.

Afterwards the Princess will go to Top Barn Farm, Holt Heath, where she will meet staff, volunteers and service users of the Good Soil Project and the Special Needs Training Centre.

Rocky Hudson, project co-ordinator for the Good Soil Project said: “It is a tremendous honour for everyone involved in the project and we look forward to her visiting us on the day.”

The project has been running at Top Barn for the past 18 months and has up to 10 men and women who have become offenders because of their drug habit. It is based on the Monty Don Project, launched by the TV gardener star, which was set up near Leominster in 2004 and teaches offenders how to grow their own produce.

Princess Anne will then move on to the Green Start Project Training Centre at Top Barn where she will meet students with physical or learning disabilities who are gaining practical life skills.

The Princess Royal was last in the county in April when she met residents of Sedgeberrow who were affected by last summer’s floods.