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Alasdair's contact details are: 01942 737910 alasdair.lindop@4nw.org.uk

Our Regional Coastal Trail Development Officer, Dave Perry, left us in December 2009 to join Natural England to work on the Walking for Health Programme. Dave has been invaluable in taking the North West Coastal Trail project forward and we wish him well in his new role.

Significant progress has been made in the last few years in the strategic development of the North West Coastal Trail. This has taken place within a changing national context due to the Marine and Coastal Access Act and associated developments within Natural England for taking forward coastal access on foot. As a result of these changes and the burgeoning workload across the range of Forum activity the Forum’s Board took the decision to use Dave’s departure as an unlooked for opportunity to review the staffing needs for the Forum Secretariat as a whole, with the result that the new post of Regional Coastal Project Assistant was created. This new post will support the Regional Coastal Project Officer, Caroline Salthouse, across the full North West Coastal Forum work programme. The North West Coastal Forum remains committed to the Coastal Trail project and its long term delivery. Strategic input for the Trail project will be provided by Caroline who performed this function prior to Dave’s appointment and Alasdair’s new post will provide, when necessary, two pairs of hands to progress the Trail project.