2025 has been a great year for walking. Our fantastic Coast Path Connectors (CPC) team has been out in the heat of the summer, the wet of the autumn, and the cold of the winter, creating many opportunities for people to enjoy the wellbeing benefits of coastal walking.
We are delighted to welcome Andrea Mead as one of our guest writers. Andrea is currently on a mission to complete the Cornwall section of the SWCP and has written about the challenging Bude to Crackington Haven section, in a piece that makes you feel like you’re there too! For those that have walked this part, or for those that would like to, you’ll read this and get a vivid sense of what this walk entails.
Ingrid Brown is an artist based in Cornwall, who takes much of her inspiration from walks, time in nature, human interaction and the subtle rhythms of daily life at home and elsewhere. Her painted artworks are often created outside, ‘en plein air’; where she is exposed to the natural elements of the ever-changing Cornish weather.
This year, for World Mental Health Day, we reflect on the impact that our Coast Path Connectors programme is having on the groups we walk with and the people we have had join us. Our walks aim to encourage a step away from everyday life, and a step onto the Coast Path and a new environment, that can offer a sense of freedom and space for both mind and body, and boost mental health and wellbeing.
To celebrate World Rivers Day we hear from the Voices of Water Foundation (VoW) founder, Emmeline Hardisty, who is campaigning for better protection of the Rivers and Rias (drowned river valleys) in England and Wales, as she takes on a pilgrimage, a ‘tributary mission’, to raise awareness of VoW and its campaign.
Welcoming aboard one of our new Way Maker businesses, Cottages on the Coast, a family-owned holiday lettings agent in North Devon. In their guest blog, Oliver and Alice, the duo behind Cottages on the Coast, share with us their 5 favourite family walks in North Devon to help you slow down, connect, and enjoy the best of the North Devon coastline.
The South West Coast Path 