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• Simon Harris will step down as chief executive of the Wales Co-operative Centre next month to become Business in the Community’s new director for Wales. The centre, through its chair David Jenkins, is now in the process of recruiting a replacement chief executive.

• Anne Sherriff is to leave Leeds-based re’new at the end of the month after agreeing a voluntary redundancy deal. The regeneration charity’s housing and neighbourhoods director intends to work as an independent consultant and trainer, as well as undertaking some ongoing responsibilities with re’new on a freelance consultancy basis.

• Bob Heapy has been appointed chief executive of Tunbridge Wells-based Town and Country Housing Group. Currently the chief executive of Enfield Homes, Mr Heapy will take up the position in October. Kay Vowles will continue to act as interim chief executive in the meantime.

• Social Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber has appointed a new chair and vice chair. Paula Denison is the managing director of the Social Enterprise Support Centre and newly-elected vice chair is Kathryn Sowerby, head of organisational development and special projects at the Goodwin Trust.

• Four new appointments have been made at the Welsh National Park Authorities. Melanie Doel, Carys Lloyd Howell and Alan Terence Arthur Lovell have joined the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and Marian Wyn Jones has been appointed to the Snowdonia Authority. It will be the first term of appointment for all four. Each appointment lasts four years.

• The Land Trust has welcomed Alan Carter as its new head of portfolio management. Mr Carter joins the Land Trust – the new operating name of the Land Restoration Trust - from British Waterways senior management team and brings 13 years of experience in estates and asset management.