CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper 3 Annex 1 13/05/22

JANU­ARY

2022

QUARTERLY

REPORT

PRE­PARED BY Nancy Chambers

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

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JANU­ARY 2022

JANU­ARY 2022

QUAR­TERI

UPDATE

The last quarter of 2021 has been very busy with pro­jects and con­tinu­ing to re-estab­lish­ing con­tacts with loc­al busi­nesses, busi­ness asso­ci­ations and oth­er poten­tial donat­ors to the Trust. Vol­un­tary giv­ing was very pos­it­ive this quarter with some good dona­tions made to the trust and pos­it­ive noises made for future donations.

The Osprey nest for the Osprey Vil­lage pro­ject now has designs in place for the inter­pret­a­tion and are hop­ing to have it in place in the next two months. 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. The Green Change Fund has sup­por­ted sev­en pro­jects and the Youth LAG has sup­por­ted 25 projects.

TICK, cyc­ling pro­ject has been brought to a close, and we are cur­rently look­ing at future mod­els for the bikes usage. The Trans­port Hub is now installed in Aviemore.

LOOK­ING FORWARD

Look­ing for­ward to the first quarter of 2022, pro­jects have been demand­ing most atten­tion with the Youth LAG and Green Change Fund tak­ing pre­ced­ence in their set up and run­ning with the short times­cales they have.

The ACE pro­ject is in the pro­cess of being re-mapped and is get­ting ready to be able to get people back out on the bikes. The GRF2021 pro­jects are all pro­gress­ing with the exclu­sion of one pro­ject at present.

The Green Change Fund Pro­jects have all star­ted and the first update has happened.

New cam­paign pro­ject inform­a­tion is ready for the Trust­ees to approve and get out.

Fund­ing applic­a­tions for core fund­ing have con­tin­ued to look at increas­ing the time avail­able for fun­drais­ing and mar­ket­ing activ­it­ies and oth­er pro­jects (ACE, Youth LAG).

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CAM­PAIGN PROJECT

An Osprey Nest for the Osprey Village

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

It is a liv­ing wil­low sculp­ture to rep­res­ent a safe haven for the fauna of Scot­land. It is built in the Milton Loch Com­munity Wood­lands where the Boat of Garten Com­munity Com­pany are try­ing to live up to its ideals.

THE ARK OF CALE­DON is an ori­gin­al concept of Bob Jones MBE FAHI

The wood­land area is the trans­form­a­tion of the vil­lage rub­bish dump into wild­life hab­it­at that can also be enjoyed by vil­la­gers and vis­it­ors. Extra hab­it­at has been cre­ated by the plant­ing of trees, the build­ing of We have raised the level of the loch, which provides bet­ter hab­ita for the anim­als that live on in the loch and also increases the amount of car­bon stored in the loch. an osprey nest and a pleth­ora of bird and bat boxes. We have built a pond dip­ping plat­form and a dragon­fly plat­form (that doubles as a duck feed­ing plat­form) so that people can learn about the creatures who use the loch. Our Ark is made of wil­low cop­picing, a nat­ive sus­tain­able source of wood, and we have held work­shops for people to learn about the wood and how to use it for crafts. You will see wil­low anim­als all round the area.

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. The pan­els are now designed and they are look­ing to get them man­u­fac­tured and in place soon. 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. With th enext com­ing up in March, date to be confirmed.

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LOVE THE CAIRNGORMS

CAIRNGORMS

GREEN

RECOV­ERY

FUND 2021

28 PRO­JECTS SUP­POR­TED THROUGH­OUT THE CAIRNGORMS

Total fund­ing com­mit­ted £303,318

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

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. Ist claim completed.

02 Roots and Shoots — ses­sions run­ning, chal­lenges with ses­sions due to COV­ID clos­ure in Decem­ber and Janu­ary. An agreed exten­sion to end April.

03 Green Health Part­ner­ship — Under budget, addi­tion­al work­shops being planned pri­or to end March.

04 Loch Insh Launch Site Res­tor­a­tion — SCA now involved as well as. This will over run time wise.

05 Dulaig Park Renov­a­tion — Slight delays due to COV­ID, but aim­ing to be fin­ished pri­or to 31^st March.

06 Mob Graz­ing — ongo­ing work­ing with farm­ers and ment­ors, sev­er­al work­shops have been completed.

07 Badenoch Broad­band Ardgael satel­lite reciev­er in place and near completion.

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TICK PRO­JECT

Cairngorms Trust Update

TICK Pro­ject 1^st Octo­ber 2021 — 1^st Janu­ary 2022

Please see addi­tion­al inform­a­tion from Brid­get and the LEAD­ER team.

The ACE pro­ject has now had all bikes col­lec­ted in from par­ti­cipants. The bikes are now stored in Grant­own in a secure unit. Brid­get and I are look­ing at how best to get bikes back out with par­ti­cipants as soon as pos­sible and if there are any changes that would be use­ful to the pro­ject in the future.

The trans­port hub is now in place in front of Aviemore train station.

All Claims and report­ing done.

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OTH­ER PROJECTS

Cairngorms Trust Update

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. They have been in dir­ect con­tact with Mox­on Archi­tects to start the pro­cess of get­ting the bridge in place.

Rur­al Com­munit­ies Test­ing Change Fund £50,000

Cairngorms Youth LAG £25,000 fund­ing Anna Flem­ming con­trac­ted to devel­op and run the pro­ject. Alan Smith over­see­ing the day to day run­ning of the pro­ject. Brid­get over­see­ing on behalf of CT. Nancy man­aging fin­ances. Res­id­en­tial com­pleted, applic­a­tion pro­cess opened and closed 25 applic­a­tions received and scored addi­tion­al fund­ing sought from CNPA to cov­er shortfall

Cairngorms Green Change Fund £25,000. NC man­aging on behalf of the CT. Scheme mod­i­fied from pre­vi­ous funds and set up Applic­a­tions, opened and closed 7 suc­cess­ful applic­a­tions All pro­jects now star­ted and some claimed for their first 40% of the funds.

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quarterly over­view

DONA­TIONS IN

AND CLAIMS

OUT

Bank Bal­ance at 1^st Janu­ary 2022 £136,778.11

Between Octo­ber to Decem­ber 2021 dona­tions were received from the fol­low­ing organisations.

Tom’s Lodge — £400

Glen­col­don Cot­tage — £120

Web­site / stripe — £117.92

Face­book — £94

Just Giv­ing — £35.70

Yeokens Dona­tion — £1,000

Total dona­tions £1767.62

Oth­er Income Cairngorms Archive Trust Clos­ure — £597.02

Interest- £3.56

LEAD­ER repay­ments -£54,038.26

Total oth­er income — £54,638.84

Total Income — £56,406.46

Claims out

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

Green Change Fund Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­it — £2,000

B&S Shinty Memor­ies — £2,120

Youth LAG Youth LAG — salary — £867.58

TICK Cyc­ling UK — ACE — £24,038.26 Hitrans — Trans­port totem £30,000

ACE pro­ject — £85

Char­ity Run­ning Costs — £652.30

Total Out — £59,763.14