Who we are

Fraser Woodward (Chair)

Fraser qualified as a barrister before moving into communications and public and patient engagement for the NHS where he has worked for the last 20 years. Before moving to Saltdean in 2012 he was a volunteer special inspector with the Metropolitan Police in London for 11 years and a trustee of youth homeless charity the Albert Kennedy Trust. As well as being Chair of the SCA he is currently a trustee of Brighton & Hove Citizens Advice and mental health charity MindOUT. A keen music fan, he also spends several weekends over the summer volunteering with Oxfam at various music festivals.

Michael Marks (Treasurer)

Michael moved to Saltdean in 2024 after 20 years in Raynes Park, South West London. He served as a committee member of the Raynes Park and West Barnes Residents' Association, representing 1,800 households on issues ranging from traffic and licensing to planning applications and open space usage. As a volunteer on the Raynes Park railway embankment project, he helped transform an overgrown area through terracing and planting, with the team winning both an RHS Outstanding Neighbourhood Award and South Western Railway's Sustainable Community Initiative of the Year Award. He brings fresh perspective as a new Saltdean resident without involvement in local politics, enabling him to contribute his community experience with an open mind. He lives in Saltdean with his wife.

Toby Keynes (Secretary)

Toby moved to Saltdean in 2021 and became an SCA trustee at the 2024 AGM, focusing on the charity's administration. He was also elected to the Saltdean Residents' Association committee in 2025. Previously, he founded two residents' associations in central London, with the second leading to the creation of the Lexham Gardens Conservation Area in 1995. Toby has a long history of involvement in gay rights. A former dedicated long-distance runner, he now pursues language learning after a fifty-year break. 

Bridget Fishleigh

Bridget has been a city councillor for West Saltdean, Rottingdean and Ovingdean since 2019 and became an SCA trustee in 2024. A past chair and committee member of the Saltdean Residents' Association, she was a leading figure in the Save Saltdean Lido group and Saltdean Lido CIC for six years. She has raised the profile of the area, bringing investment and multiple improvements to public infrastructure. During COVID, she established the Saltdean Food Bank which she continues to operate, and created the annual Saltdean Party in the Park initiative. She is regularly seen organising and participating in community activities from litter picks to beach clean-ups across the neighbourhood.

David Wilson

David took early retirement from a career in the motor industry in 2017 where he held senior roles including at Porsche and BMW.  With his wife, Sonia, he relocated to  Saltdean, where there was always something that needed doing.  David took the lead in transforming the Saltdean tunnel, creating a mural celebrating the vast array of sea life that defines our stretch of coast. He also turned his attention to the cliff-top toilets, another overlooked necessity that deserved to be more than merely functional.  You’ll often find David with a paintbrush in hand, retouching the railings, freshening up plant pots, giving new life to anything that can be mended without undue expense or just opening and closing the charity beach hut, and opening and closing the toilets at the park and cliffs daily.  All of this lead to David being shortlisted for the 2025 BBC Make a Difference Awards.  Away from volunteering he plays walking football for the over 60’s & 70’s for Eastbourne United.

Rebecca Crook

Rebecca is the CEO of a global digital transformation company and regular media commentator across business and technology matters. Passionate about heritage, she co-founded the Save Saltdean Lido campaign group and established Saltdean Lido CIC which enabled the lido to be restored and brought back to life. During this time she was Chair writing the successful Grade II* listing application, various business plans for funding and the bid to the Council which secured the lease for the community. She is currently a Director of RPMT (Royal Pavilion & Museum Trust) and the Chair of The Diana Award. She has sat on the strategic advisory board for the National Trust, the enterprise board for London Transport Museum and the NHS as the digital expert. Rebecca has lived in Saltdean for almost 20 year and lives in East Saltdean with her husband.

Anthony Delow

Anthony started married life in Saltdean in 1974 with their two daughters attending Saltdean Primary School. In 1980 Anthony was approached to join the crew of the new RNLI station in Brighton Marina and for the first time in his life he felt he put something back into the local community spending five wonderful years messing about in boats! 

In 2011 with the children having left home he stood for election as a Rottingdean Parish Councillor and was duly elected. The local projects that he undertook included the complete rebuild of the disused public toilets on Rottingdean promenade into a modern block of public loos and Molly’s café. Slightly tongue in cheek he suggested to Brighton & Hove City Council that they should enter the loos into a national competition to find the best public toilets in the UK. To his surprise and delight they won one of the gold awards for the best public toilets in the country.

In 2024 Energise Sussex Coast were advertising their Energy Champion course at Saltdean Lido which Anthony attended and became one of their Energy Champions. This reawakened his thoughts of again putting something back into the community and to this end found a wonderful organisation called SRCA and joined at the AGM in March 2025.