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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY UGH­DAR­RAS PAIRC NAISEANTA Α’ MHON­AIDH RUAIDH

Cairngorms Equal­ity Advis­ory Panel

30^th August 2022

5:00pm — 6:30pm — Held virtually

Minutes

Present | Anita Howard | Becca Mayo | | — -| — -| | Heath­er Earn­shaw | Lina Payne | | Linda Bam­ford | Peter Kennedy | | Stu­art Hall | Vanessa Altweck |

Attend­ing | Car­oline Stan­ton (CNPA) | Fiona Holmes (CNPA) | | — -| — -| | Fiona McLean (Chair) | Kate Christie | | Kath­er­ine Will­ing | Mat­thew Hawkins | | Sally Mackenzie | |

Apo­lo­gies | Kev­in Hutchens | Lili­ana Corrieri |

1. Wel­come 1.1. Fiona wel­comed the group back after the sum­mer break and wel­comed the speak­ers to the meet­ing. 1.2. Kate gave the group an update on the face-to-face event and itin­er­ary. It was pro­posed that the Septem­ber vir­tu­al meet­ing be can­celled due to the time com­mit­ment for EAP mem­bers attend­ing the face-to-face event.

2. Re-cap and Actions from Pre­vi­ous Meet­ing on 28^th June 2022 2.1. The minutes from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing were agreed and are ready to be pub­lished on the web­site. 2.2. The actions arising from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing were agreed upon.

3. Item I: Her­it­age Hori­zons Cairngorm 2030 – Nature Based Solu­tions — Con­ser­va­tion Mat­thew Hawkins 3.1. Mat­thew gave a brief over­view of Her­it­age Hori­zons with a spe­cif­ic focus on nature-based solu­tions pro­jects. Mat­thew asked the pan­el to think about the fol­low­ing ques­tions as they heard about each project:

   • What is the poten­tial to achieve this principle?
   • What would be the priorities?
   • Where are we likely to miss?
   • Do we need to adopt a com­mon approach or a pro­ject by pro­jects basis?

Pro­ject I: Cli­mate Resi­li­ent Catch­ments — Sally Mack­en­zie 3.2. Sally gave a present­a­tion on the pro­ject. 3.3. The pan­el raised that it would be bene­fi­cial if the core prin­ciples and con­sid­er­a­tion of the soci­et­al impact of the Nature Based Solu­tion pro­jects echo the core prin­ciples of the ​“Just Trans­ition”. Mat­thew explained that this has already been con­sidered, trans­par­ency and fair­ness are import­ant, and the focus is on how the bene­fits can be shared amongst all. 3.4. The river res­tor­a­tion was wel­comed. The pan­el asked that if as part of the engage­ment and plan­ning phase any thought had been giv­en to open­ing the green and blue spaces to more than just cars to help people access the river­side to help with their men­tal health. Sally explained there was a good like­li­hood of doing this, par­tic­u­larly with the Brechin pro­ject. 3.5. The pan­el explained that to help with engage­ment it was import­ant to con­sider how the inform­a­tion was presen­ted to encour­age equal access. The pan­el sug­ges­ted con­sid­er­ing who lived in the area, how was the land used his­tor­ic­ally and what impres­sion people may cur­rently have because of this and to use diverse images. 3.6. The pan­el sug­ges­ted involving loc­al schools to help build con­nec­tion between the com­munity and the pro­ject. Sally felt the pro­ject opened itself up to those kind of learn­ing oppor­tun­it­ies and felt there was more that could be done in this area.

Pro­ject 2: Future Farm­ing Pro­ject – Fiona Holmes 3.7. Fiona gave an over­view of the pro­ject. 3.8. Mul­tiple pan­el mem­bers raised that the res­ults were being shared with the sci­entif­ic com­munity and farm­ers, but it was import­ant that this should also be shared with the com­munity. Fiona dis­cussed how this was chal­len­ging as the loc­al com­munity will see big bene­fits, but this is due to lots of small changes which the com­munity may not be inter­ested in. The pan­el felt strongly that the com­munity would be inter­ested in the small changes and that this should be com­mu­nic­ated with the com­munity. 3.9. The pan­el sug­ges­ted that to encour­age com­munity engage­ment, com­mu­nic­at­ing to the com­munity what is going on and how this can relate to them is key., The pan­el expressed that it is import­ant to show the jour­ney as well as the des­tin­a­tion to keep con­ver­sa­tion going and cre­ate interest. Mat­thew dis­cussed some com­mu­nic­a­tion ideas around art­icles and social media. The pan­el suggested

ensur­ing com­mu­nic­a­tion and engage­ment is act­ive as well as pass­ive and gave examples of involve­ment such as volun­teer­ing to help gath­er data.

Pro­ject 3: Cairngorms Com­munity Land­scape Engage­ment – Car­oline Stan­ton 3.10. Car­oline gave an over­view of the pro­ject. 3.11. The pan­el reflec­ted that the pro­ject soun­ded pos­it­ive, with the ini­tial stages listen­ing to the com­munity. The pan­el asked wheth­er the data would include qual­it­at­ive as well as quant­it­at­ive data. Car­oline explained the pro­ject will be col­lect­ing both. 3.12. The pan­el sug­ges­ted that to ensure a diverse range of responses afford­ab­il­ity and access­ib­il­ity would need to be con­sidered, for example some people may find it dif­fi­cult to engage in per­son or some people may struggle with the costs asso­ci­ated with filling out online meth­ods. 3.13. The pan­el sug­ges­ted that SPICE, the Scot­tish House­hold Sur­vey, Census and Pub­lic Health Scot­land all hold data that may be rel­ev­ant. 3.14. The pan­el sug­ges­ted work­ing with schools to help find the right lan­guage, sug­gest­ing this may tie in with les­sons around lan­guage and com­mu­nic­a­tion. Build­ing links with loc­al schools may help to cre­ate pos­it­ive and act­ive engage­ment and co-cre­ation. Car­oline explained that they have already picked this up as a part of the poten­tial meth­od­o­logy and that the ranger team has been help­ing to facil­it­ate this.

Key Points 3.15. Mat­thew then sum­mar­ised the key points such as mak­ing sure there is access to river­side, act­ive com­mu­nic­a­tion of what the pro­jects are doing and act­ive engage­ment through ini­ti­at­ives such as volun­teer­ing. Mat­thew reflec­ted that they would like to come to a future meet­ing closer to the deliv­ery phase to show how they have imple­men­ted some of these ideas.

AOBS 3.16. Travel arrange­ments for Face-to-Face event – the pan­el asked wheth­er they should go ahead and book trans­port. Kate asked that the pan­el book their own trans­port and it will be reimbursed.

Next Meet­ing 25^th October

END OF MEETING