NOVEM­BER 2021

QUARTERLY REPORT

PRE­PARED BY Nancy Chambers

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper 3 Annex 1 11/02/22

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

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CAIRNGORMS TRUST AUGUST 2021

NOVEM­BER 2021

QUARTERLY UPDATE

The third quarter of the year has been busy with pro­jects and re-estab­lish­ing con­tacts with loc­al busi­nesses, busi­ness asso­ci­ations and oth­er poten­tial donat­ors to the Trust. We were sucess­ful in gain­ing £1,000 dona­tion from Yeokens, this will show in the next update.

The Osprey nest for the Osprey Vil­lage pro­ject has changed design­er and sup­pli­er for the inter­pret­a­tion and have been mak­ing small steps for­ward with get­ting it into place. They con­tin­ue to hold suc­cess­ful volun­teer days at the site and have more plans for the wil­low weav­ing project.

The 2021 Cairngorms Green Recov­ery Fund Pro­jects are all mak­ing good pro­gress. See details below for the pro­jects that CT have supported.

RCTC fund­ing has star­ted well with both the Green Change Fund and the Youth LAG get­ting going. TICK, cyc­ling pro­ject brought to a close, and we are cur­rently look­ing at future mod­els for the bikes usage. The Trans­port Hub is being installed in Aviemore mid November.

LOOK­ING FORWARD

Look­ing for­ward to the next quarter, there is a need to con­tin­ue mar­ket­ing and increas­ing the vis­ib­il­ity of the Cairngorms Trust as well as con­tinu­ing to con­tact and increas­ing loc­al busi­nesses who have a know­ledge about us. This has already increased the dona­tions com­ing into the char­ity via the web­site and face­book, this will show on the next update.

The GRF2021 pro­jects will con­tin­ue and reg­u­lar updates will be reques­ted from each of the pro­jects to ensure they are pro­gress­ing as planned.

Green Change Fund Pro­jects will start this pro­cess with a view to fin­ish­ing on or before the 31^st March. The guid­ance and sup­port­ing doc­u­ments for the 3 new cam­paign funds in the fields of Nature, Infra­struc­ture and Youth are now writ­ten and ready to go when it is deemed appro­pri­ate timing.

Fund­ing applic­a­tions for core fund­ing will con­tin­ue to look at increas­ing the time avail­able for fun­drais­ing and mar­ket­ing activities.

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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 have changed design­ers for the inter­pret­a­tion and once that is in place they will draw down their final claim from us. They are hop­ing that the first of the pan­els will be in place around the end of Novem­ber. 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 con­tin­ued to devel­op the site, includ­ing sit­ing benches and seat­ing for vis­it­ors to the wil­low ark. They con­tin­ue to organ­ise com­munity volun­teer days at the site. The last was to re- weave the wil­low ark and tidy the wood­land path for the winter months.

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LOVE THE CAIRNGORMS

CAIRNGORMS

GREEN

RECOV­ERY

FUND 2021

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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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Cairngorms Green Recov­ery Fund

7 PRO­JECTS

01 Caber­feidh Hori­zons — Food Prep area com­pleted, work­shop tools being bought, Salary costs will start later in the year

02 Roots and Shoots — first ses­sions have star­ted running

03 Green Health Part­ner­ship — First work­shops have been run

04 Loch Insh Launch Site Res­tor­a­tion — Plan­ning per­mis­sion applied for.

05 Dulaig Park Renov­a­tion — Plant­ing will be start­ing in autumn and play equip­ment will be bought early 2022.

06 Mob Graz­ing — farms iden­ti­fied and ini­tial work­shop days completed

07 Badenoch Broad­band Ardgael

• satel­lite reciev­er in place and near completion.

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TICK PRO­JECT

Cairngorms Trust Update

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TICK Pro­ject 1^st July

2021 — 1^st Octo­ber 2021

Please see addi­tion­al inform­a­tion from Brid­get and the LEAD­ER team.

The cyc­ling pro­ject was exten­ded to end Septem­ber. Cyc­ling UK have now fin­ished the con­tract. Cur­rently we are look­ing at stor­age options for the bikes and how we may re-start the pro­ject in the future.

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

The minibus pur­chase has not been able to happen.

Claims 1 – 3 received Claims 4 is immin­ent and final claims will be before Decem­ber 2021.

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OTH­ER PROJECTS

Cairngorms Trust Update

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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.

Rur­al Com­munit­ies Test­ing Change Fund £50,000

Cairngorms Youth LAG £25,000 fund­ing • Cairngorms Young Action Team are keen to be the start­ing point for the youth LAG. • Anna Flem­ming con­trac­ted to devel­op and run the pro­ject. • Alan Smith over­see­ing the day to day run­ning of the pro­ject. Fur­ther updates from Bridget.

Cairngorms Green Change Fund £25,000 • Scheme mod­i­fied from pre­vi­ous funds and set up • Applic­a­tions, opened and closed • Scor­ing and decision mak­ing hap­pen­ing on grants at the LAG meet­ing Updates to fol­low on as the fund progresses.

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quarterly over­view

DONA­TIONS IN

AND CLAIMS

OUT

Bank Bal­ance at 1^st Octo­ber 2021 £147,390.19

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

Angels Nec­tar — £155

Smile.amazon £9.30

Web­site / stripe — £77.58

Cash dona­tions £46.53

Total dona­tions £288.41

Oth­er Income

Claims out Cam­paign Projects

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

Cairngorms Green Recov­ery 2021

Dulaig Park — £2296

Ardgael Com­munity Broad­band — £3100

Roots and Shoots — £3210.40

Mob Graz­ing — £4,464

Interest- £3.72

Total Income — £292.13

Total Claims Out — £13,070.40