Our Trustees

Heather Hancock LVO DL
Chair, The Prince’s Countryside Fund
Master of St John’s College, Cambridge
Heather’s non-executive appointments include being a Director of Rural Solutions Ltd.

Rob Collins
Vice Chair, The Prince’s Countryside Fund
Rob was Managing Director of Waitrose & Partners from 2016 to 2020 and a member of the Main Board for The John Lewis Partnership.

Edwin Booth CBE DL
Chairman & CEO E H Booth & Co Ltd
Edwin has put provenance and local sourcing at the forefront of the offering at Booths stores in the North of England.

Elizabeth Buchanan CVO
Consultant and Farmer
Elizabeth was, until December 2009, the Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Mark Duddridge
Chair, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP
Mark is Chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP and is soon to Chair the Coastline a Cornish Housing Association.

David Fursdon
Chairman, The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture
David was educated at St John’s College, Oxford and at the RAU Cirencester, where he is now an honorary Fellow.

Lord Jamie Lindsay
Chairman, UKAS
Jamie Lindsay is currently Chairman of UKAS (the UK’s National Accreditation Body) and BPI Pension Trustees Ltd., and a Non-Executive Director of Brockwell Energy Ltd.

Janet McCollum CBE
Janet currently serves as Non-Executive Director with several leading businesses within the agri-food industry – Glanbia Ireland, W & R Barnett, Mash Direct and Foyle Food Group.

Steve Murrells CBE
CEO, Co-op Group
Steve Murrells became Co-op Group CEO in March 2017 having previously led the Co-op’s Food business.

Meurig Raymond MBE, CBE, FRAgS
Farmer
Raymond is a farmer and an advocate of British farming. He was President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales (NFU) until 2018.

Allan Wilkinson
Head of Agrifoods, HSBC Bank plc
Allan Wilkinson is a dairy farmer’s son from the North East of England, who joined Midland Bank in the late 1980’s becoming HSBC’s Head of Agriculture in 2010.
As well as quarterly meetings of the board of trustees, The Prince’s Countryside Fund benefits from the advice of our board through a number of subcommittees.
Grants subcommittee
Chair: Janet McCollum
Development committee
Chair: Rob Collins
The Farm Advisory Group
Chair: Allan Wilkinson
Nominations committee
Chair: Edwin Booth