Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York will spend time on a housing estate in a new programme for ITV1 called The Sarah Ferguson Project.

Having spent much of the last decade in the States, Sarah was shocked to return to the UK to find a place she didn’t recognise with a lack of community spirit. As a mother, she believes that women in fractured communities hold the key to making things better. She wants to galvanise the women in the households and empower them to raise standards, expectations and ambitions. And Sarah wants to inject a heart into the neighbourhood – could a local hall harness the wasted potential and pull the community together to make a difference?

She said ‘Some of our communities are so fragmented and I’m convinced that if we can start to give people a sense of community spirit they can start to work together to improve their local area and lifestyles.’

Sarah will attempt to come up with a blueprint for change that could help the families she meets. She will be shown the ropes by one family and tour the locality with them to learn as much as she can from the area and make her better equipped to attempt change – then set about making it happen.

The commissioner of the two part series, ITV’s Controller of Entertainment Layla Smith said ‘Sarah is a passionate force in instigating change and we are delighted that we have persuaded her to make another programme for ITV.’