Donald Curry has been a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords since 2011.
A trustee of Anglican International Development (AID), a charity leading on a range of development projects in South Sudan. He is also Chair of Food and Farming Futures and a founder and Chair of The Rural Design Centre in the North East of England. In 2017 he became President of Community Action Northumberland.
He was until the end of 2024 a trustee of Clinton Devon Estates. From 2014 to 2021 he was Chair of Cawood Scientific, an independent provider of accredited analytical laboratory testing services for the land-based sector.
He was a founding trustee of the Prince’s Countryside Fund and was Chair from March 2016 to December 2021. He was Chair of the Council of the Royal Veterinary College from 2012 until 2019.