Our Trustees
Lord Curry of Kirkharle Kt, CBE, FRAgS
Chair, The Prince’s Countryside Fund
Donald was a founding trustee of The Prince’s Countryside Fund and has been Chair since March 2016.
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.
Sara Bennison
Chief Product & Marketing Officer, Nationwide Building Society
Sara joined Nationwide in 2016 as a member of its Executive Committee following 7 years at Barclays.
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.
Heather Hancock LVO DL
Master of St John’s College, Cambridge
Heather’s non-executive appointments include being a Director of Rural Solutions Ltd.
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 McLean
Head of Agriculture & Fisheries, Marks & Spencer plc
Steve became Head of Agriculture & Fisheries Sourcing at M&S in April 2012, and has overall responsibility for agricultural and fisheries supply chain sourcing and supply chain sustainability across the M&S Food business.
Steve Murrells
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.
Baroness Kate Rock
Kate has a portfolio of non executive directoriships.
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.
