AUGUST 2021

QUARTERLY REPORT

PRE­PARED BY Nancy Chambers

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper 2 Annex 2 29/10/2021

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

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CAIRNGORMS TRUST AUGUST 2021

AUGUST 2021 QUARTERLY UPDATE

This quarter has con­tin­ued with interest. The cam­paign pro­jects are now both nearly fin­ished with both pro­jects con­tinu­ing to devel­op their pro­jects fur­ther. The Osprey nest for the Osprey Vil­lage pro­ject has found fund­ing for a fur­ther set of com­munity wil­low weav­ing work­shops and com­munity events in the Milton Loch site, these have been a real suc­cess, they are still await­ing pro­duc­tion of inter­pret­a­tion. The Kin­gussie Path net­work Improve­ment pro­ject has been nom­in­ated for ​“Paths for All” Volun­teer group of the year for their work sup­por­ted by the Cairngorms Trust. The 2021 Cairngorms Green Recov­ery Fund Pro­jects have now all star­ted, and the 2020 pro­jects have all com­pleted. The TICK pro­ject has been ongo­ing and has been work­ing well in part­ner­ship with the LEAD­ER team and oth­er extern­al agen­cies with Cyc­ling UK look­ing at extend­ing the pro­ject work­ers role until the end of the cal­en­dar year.

LOOK­ING FORWARD

Look­ing for­ward this quarter, there is a need to con­tin­ue mar­ket­ing and increas­ing the vis­ib­il­ity of the Cairngorms Trust as well as con­tact­ing and increas­ing loc­al busi­nesses who have a know­ledge about us. The GRF2021 pro­jects con­tin­ue and reg­u­lar updates will be reques­ted from each of the pro­jects to ensure they are pro­gress­ing as planned. The guid­ance and sup­port­ing doc­u­ments for the 3 new cam­paign funds in the fields of Nature, Infra­struc­ture and Youth are now writ­ten and ready for LAG approv­al before going live later in the year.

The Vol­un­tary Giv­ing Steer­ing Group has met and giv­en valu­able guid­ance. I have been writ­ing a num­ber of grant applic­a­tions to try to increase core fund­ing and allow the trust to employ addi­tion­al employ­ees in a fun­drais­ing and or mar­ket­ing capacity.

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CAIRNGORMS TRUST AUGUST 2021

CAM­PAIGN PROJECT

An Osprey Nest for the Osprey Village

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

The Osprey Nest for the Osprey Vil­lage pro­ject in Boat of Garten is still in the same pos­i­tion and has almost fin­ished. They are await­ing inter­pret­a­tion arriv­ing from Acorn Signs. Once the inter­pret­a­tion is in place they will draw down their final claim from us. The pro­ject has been a real suc­cess with­in the vil­lage with increas­ing num­bers of young fam­il­ies vis­it­ing the site, play­ing in the wil­low sculp­ture and enjoy­ing the trans­form­a­tion of the area.

The Boat of Garten Wild­life Group are con­tinu­ing to devel­op the pro­ject fol­low­ing our involve­ment and have held addi­tion­al com­munity wil­low weav­ing ses­sions in the sum­mer months of 2021 along with oth­er com­munity activ­it­ies on the site. They are plan­ning to use some of the smal­ler fig­ures to increase the interest in the Milton Loch area.

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CAIRNGORMS TRUST AUGUST 2021

CAM­PAIGN PROJECT

Kin­gussie Path Net­work Improve­ment Project

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

The Kin­gussie Path Net­work Improve­ment Pro­ject has now been fully claimed. they have com­pleted all aspects of the pro­ject that they set out to do and have bought mater­i­als with the final por­tion of the grant to con­tin­ue main­ten­ance with oth­er sections.

The pro­ject have updated their web­site with path main­ten­ance details. www​.kcdc​.co​.uk/​p​a​t​h​s​/​p​a​t​h​-​m​a​i​n​t​e​n​ance/

The pro­ject is in the pro­cess of being nom­in­ated for Volun­teer pro­ject of the year from ​“Paths for All” for the work done through out the pro­ject and their con­tinu­ing work.

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LOVE THE CAIRNGORMS

CAIRNGORMS

GREEN

RECOV­ERY

FUND 2021

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

Cairngorms NATION­AL PARK Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

28 PRO­JECTS

SUP­POR­TED

THROUGH­OUT

THE

CAIRNGORMS

Total fund­ing com­mit­ted £303,318

CT £53318 – 7 pro­jects CNPA £247007 — 15 pro­jects Lit­ter Pick­ing £2993 — 6 projects

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TICK PRO­JECT

Cairngorms Trust Update

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

TICK Pro­ject 1^st April

2021 — 1^st July 2021

Please see addi­tion­al inform­a­tion from Brid­get and the LEAD­ER team.

The cyc­ling pro­ject has been exten­ded with the pro­ject officer’s con­tract con­tinu­ing until the end of the cal­en­dar year.

The trans­port hub is on-going with install­a­tion and plan­ning hap­pen­ing from HITRANS.

The minibus pur­chase is ongo­ing through procurement.

Claims 1 – 3 now received Claims 4 — 6 anti­cip­ated to be between August to Decem­ber 2021.

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CAIRNGORMS TRUST AUGUST 2021

OTH­ER PROJECTS

Cairngorms Trust Update

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

A Bridge to your Community

As the Her­it­age lot­tery Bid has been suc­cess­ful the Spey Catch­ment Ini­ti­at­ive are now start­ing the pro­cess of the Slugan Burn Pro­ject which the bridge will be used in. Updates to fol­low as they occur.

Back­bone Update

Eric atten­ded the Back­bone online con­fer­ence and repor­ted back the fol­low­ing points that the CT can fol­low up on.

• Ensur­ing that the Cairngorms Trust are ​‘inclu­sion aware’
• Mak­ing inclu­sion a key cri­terion for applic­ants to our fund­ing streams: a good way to do this could be to provide a ​‘menu’ of actions/​options: this would encour­age applic­ants to address the issue con­struct­ively and cre­at­ively, and not simply under­take a ​‘tick box’ exercise.

Fol­low­ing on from this the next gath­er­ing will be on Sat­urday 11^th & Sunday 12^th Septem­ber 10am — 4pm Bat­tle­by Perth 2 phys­ic­al gath­er­ings for a max­im­um of 50 par­ti­cipants each. There will be an option to join either of those dates.

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quarterly over­view

DONA­TIONS IN

AND CLAIMS

OUT

Bank Bal­ance at 1^st July 2021

£161,220.74

Between April to July 2021 dona­tions were received from the fol­low­ing organisations.

Glen­col­don Cot­tage — £40

Angels Nec­tar — £105

Smile.amazon — £19.04

Just Giv­ing — £97.90

Web­site / stripe — £24.45

Char­it­ies Trust — £104.46

Cash dona­tions — £7

Total dona­tions £397.85

Oth­er Income

CNPA TICK Grant — £45,000

LEAD­ER TICK Claim — £25,127.58

Interest — £3.4

Total Oth­er income — £70,130.98

Claims out

Com­munity Grants — all fully claimed

Cam­paign Projects

An Osprey Nest for the Osprey Vil­lage — £6,635 of £8,500.

Cairngorms Green Recov­ery 2020

RSPB — Final pay­ment of £2,400.

Brae­mar Com­munity Ltd — Final Pay­ment of £7,200.

BOG Com­munity Hall — Final pay­ment of £6,500

Cairngorms Green Recov­ery 2021

Claims start­ing July 2021

Addi­tion­al Claims Out

Back­bone — £250 TICK — £13,969.45

Total Claims Out — £30,319.45