 When Milburn joined the Prince's Trust in 2004, the charity was helping 41,680 young people a year, and by 2007–08 41,324.During Milburn's time as chief executive the charity has increasingly directed its help to young people who are long term unemployed, and the charity has increasingly measured its success as an organisation by how many young people they have got off the unemployment register, by getting them into some employment, training or education.This figure has risen over four years from 76% to 79%.