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CAIRNGORM NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper I 25^th Novem­ber 2022 Q3 2022 (July — Sept)

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Cairngorms 2030 Devel­op­ment Phase Q3 22 Update

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: HER­IT­AGE HORI­ZONS PRO­JECT UPDATE Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CLYNE, HEAD OF HER­IT­AGE HORI­ZONS Purpose

This paper presents the Q3 2022 deliv­ery update on the Her­it­age Hori­zons: Cairngorms 2030 Pro­gramme and the planned devel­op­ment work to end Decem­ber 2022.

Per­form­ance Dash­board: Pro­gramme level

Per­form­ance Meas­ure	RAG status	Issue/​mitigation
Pro­gramme risk profile	Green	Pro­gramme being delivered with­in risk tolerances
Fin­ance: impact on Cairngorms NPA budget management	Amber	Pro­pos­al to extend HH staff employ­ment con­tracts to reduce pro­gramme deliv­ery risk.
Future fund­ing profile	Amber	Extern­al 2022 eco­nom­ic factors (sig­ni­fic­ant rises in infla­tion and con­struc­tion industry costs) will impact on ​“buy­ing power/​real value” of Stage 2 budget. Cur­rently being quan­ti­fied but expec­ted to impact par­tic­u­larly on staff costs and Trans­port pro­jects, both in terms of scale of con­struc­tion and match fund­ing contributions.
Pro­cure­ment	Green	Tenders awar­ded and con­sult­ants in place
Staff­ing	Amber	Staff employ­ment con­tracts end­ing June 2023. Risk of staff turnover pri­or to sub­mis­sion date res­ult­ing Jin loss of skills, know­ledge and exper­i­ence. SMT to con­sider extend­ing con­tracts to March 2024 to reduce risk of los­ing staff between sub­mis­sion and award notice dates.
SEFARI fel­low­ship	Amber	SEFARI fel­low­ship recruit­ment unsuc­cess­ful in first round. Oppor­tun­ity has been re-designed and re-published.
Pro­ject exe­cu­tion and NLHF second phase applic­a­tion timescales	Amber	NLHF has con­firmed earli­est sub­mis­sion date as 25th May 23 (award Sept 23) or 17th August 23 (award Dec 23).
Deliv­ery of Sus­trans fun­ded projects	Amber	Align­ing NLHF times­cales to meet Sus­trans ​‘Places for Every­one’ design stages and uncon­firmed fund­ing com­mit­tee meet­ing schedule

CAIRNGORM NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper I 25^th Novem­ber 2022 Q3 2022 (July — Sept)

Stra­tegic Background

1. CNPA was suc­cess­ful in its bid to the Nation­al Lot­tery Her­it­age Fund (NLHF): Her­it­age Horizons.

2. The CNPA Cairngorms 2030: People and Nature Thriv­ing Togeth­er Pro­gramme was awar­ded £1.7 mil­lion from NLHF to com­plete the devel­op­ment phase from 7^th July 2021 — 7^th July 2023. The total devel­op­ment phase budget is £3.8 million.

3. The devel­op­ment phase con­sists of a pro­gramme of works to engage, empower, and inspire res­id­ents, busi­nesses, and vis­it­ors to tackle the joint cli­mate, nature, and pub­lic health emer­gen­cies. It will add detail to the stage I NLHF pro­ject pro­pos­als, provide more accur­ate costs and devel­op the know­ledge exchange programme.

4. The devel­op­ment phase will focus on deliv­er­ing action research type activ­it­ies so that evid­ence-based plans can be cre­ated for the 5‑year deliv­ery phase.

5. A stage 2 NLHF fund­ing applic­a­tion will be sub­mit­ted by end June 2023.

Per­form­ance Over­view: Deliv­ery Against Stra­tegic Expectations

1. Staff­ing a) Jenny Allen has been appoin­ted as Pro­gramme Man­ager. b) High Life High­land appoin­ted to back­fill the role of the Green Health Ranger who took mater­nity leave from 1^st Septem­ber 2022. c) The Com­mu­nic­a­tions and Engage­ment Officer Post left her post in August 2022 due to ill health. The duties have been re-alloc­ated to oth­er mem­bers of the CNPA com­mu­nic­a­tions team with fund­ing costs shared by NLHF.

2. Research and Know­ledge Exchange a) MB Con­sult­ants on-boarded as mon­it­or­ing and eval­u­ation con­sult­ants. b) There were no suc­cess­ful applic­a­tions for the research fel­low­ship with Scot­tish Envir­on­ment Food and Agri­cul­ture Research Insti­tu­tion (SEFARI). Post has been re-advertised.

3. Con­sultancy awards a) 29 tenders awar­ded b) 0 tenders live on PCS

4. Stra­tegic Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (SEA) and Hab­it­ats Reg­u­la­tions Apprais­als (HRAs) a) Babbity Envir­on­ment­al have been appoin­ted to under­take SEA/HRA in accord­ance with Sec­tion 8 (1) of the Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (Scot­land) Act 2005.

CAIRNGORM NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper I 25^th Novem­ber 2022 Q3 2022 (July — Sept)

1. Com­mu­nic­a­tions and engagement

a. Park Talk in Badenoch and Strath­spey Her­ald. Also pub­lished online on our web site: https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​p​a​r​k​-​t​a​l​k​-​e​n​s​u​r​i​n​g​-​w​e​-​h​a​v​e​-​a​-​w​e​l​l​-​b​e​i​n​g​-​e​c​o​nomy/ b. Press release (Park-wide) to announce Trans­form­ing Trans­port online and in-per­son engage­ment, also pub­lished on our web site and e‑news to com­mon­place audi­ences (1000 people). Picked up by titles such as The Scots­man. c. Press release (Park-wide) to announce call for artist res­id­ence for Com­munity Arts and Cul­ture pro­ject. Pub­lished on our web site and e‑news to com­mon­place audi­ences (1000 people). d. Press release (Park-wide) to announce Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munit­ies engage­ment and work­shops. Pub­lished on our web site and e‑news to com­mon­place audi­ences (1000 people). Picked up by titles includ­ing The Scots­man. e. Press release (Park-wide) to call for pub­lic feed­back to E‑bike sur­vey as part of the Trans­form­ing Trans­port group of pro­jects. Pub­lished on our web site and e‑news to com­mon­place audi­ences (1000 people). f. Online pro­mo­tion around the work­shops for Land Rights and Respons­ib­il­it­ies pro­ject. Pub­lished on our web site and e‑news to com­mon­place audi­ences (1000 people). g. Press release (Park-wide) to announce road­show of com­munity drop-in events cov­er­ing vari­ous Her­it­age Hori­zons themes/​projects. Also pub­lished on our web site and e‑news to com­mon­place audi­ences. Picked up by titles includ­ing The Strathy. h. Online pro­mo­tion around Future Walks as part of the Trans­form­ing Trans­port pro­jects. Pub­lished on our web site and com­mon­place i. Press release (loc­al) to high­light con­tinu­ation of Road­show events with date in Blair Atholl. Pub­lished on com­mon­place j. Com­mon­place Q3 – Her­it­age Hori­zons: Cairngorms 2030 Land­ing page and tiles of con­sulta­tions: https://​cairngorm​s2030​.com​mon​place​.is

i. Visitors to the site - 3,265
ii. Respondents – 332
iii. Contributions – 1,343

Per­form­ance Over­view: Risks Under Management

1. Mon­it­or­ing: Risk mon­it­or­ing con­tin­ues at CNPA team, theme, and seni­or man­age­ment level.

2. Gov­ernance: Pro­gramme exe­cu­tion stage ongo­ing. New theme leads in place to man­age oper­a­tion­al delivery.

3. Cash flow: No issues.

4. Pro­cure­ment: Pro­cure­ment pro­ceed­ing well with con­sult­ant incep­tion meet­ings underway.

CAIRNGORM NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper I 25^th Novem­ber 2022 Q3 2022 (July — Sept)

1. Pro­gramme deliv­ery actions to end Decem­ber 2022

Action	When
Pro­ject con­nectiv­ity draft report	Novem­ber
Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munity Workshops	Novem­ber
Devel­op­ment phase eval­u­ation interviews	Novem­ber — December
Appoint SEFARI Cairngorms 2030 Fellowship	Decem­ber
Draft pro­ject level 5‑year action plan created	Decem­ber
Fort­nightly update meet­ings with NLHF consultant	On-going
Pro­ject execution	On-going

Sig­ni­fic­ant Pro­gramme Change Requests

1. Dis­cus­sions on-going with NLHF to agree second phase applic­a­tion date.

Sig­ni­fic­ant Budget Adjustments

1. Employ­ment con­tract exten­sions may be required from July 2023 — March 2024. NLHF grant exten­sion nego­ti­ations in progress.

Con­clu­sions: Per­form­ance Over­view and Mat­ters Mer­it­ing Stra­tegic Review

1. The main risk for deliv­ery con­tin­ues to be the tight times­cales asso­ci­ated with man­aging 24 com­plex pro­jects and meet­ing the NLHF second phase fund­ing applic­a­tion dead­line. This was ori­gin­ally sched­uled as end June 2023 but may be exten­ded to 17^th August 2023 to com­ply with new NLHF guidelines.

2. Staff employ­ment con­tracts end­ing June 2023 presents a sig­ni­fic­ant risk of staff turnover pri­or to sub­mis­sion date. This will res­ult in loss of skills, know­ledge and exper­i­ence. Recom­mend extend­ing con­tracts to March 2024 to reduce risk of los­ing staff between sub­mis­sion (August 23) and award (Dec 23) notice dates.

3. Plan­ning to pro­duce the second phase NLHF applic­a­tion and sup­ple­ment­ary sup­port­ing doc­u­ments in pro­gress. Mile­stone draft com­ple­tion dates at end March 2023 and June 2023.

Dav­id Clyne 11^th Novem­ber 2022 davidclyne@​cairngorms.​co.​uk