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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY PER­FORM­ANCE COM­MIT­TEE 10^th March 2023: PAPER I

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Cairngorms 2030 Devel­op­ment Phase Q4 22 Update

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: HER­IT­AGE HORI­ZONS PRO­JECT UPDATE

Pre­pared by: DAV­ID CLYNE, HEAD OF HER­IT­AGE HORIZONS

Pur­pose

This paper presents the Q4 2022 deliv­ery update on the Her­it­age Hori­zons: Cairngorms 2030 Pro­gramme and the planned devel­op­ment work to end March 2023.

Per­form­ance Dash­board: Pro­gramme level

Per­form­ance Meas­ure	RAG status	Issue/​mitigation
Pro­gramme risk profile	Green	Pro­gramme being delivered with­in risk tolerances.
Future fund­ing profile	Amber	Extern­al eco­nom­ic factors (sig­ni­fic­ant rises in infla­tion and con­struc­tion industry costs) will impact on second phase budgets. Pro­gramme level expos­ure will be accoun­ted for in deliv­ery phase cost plan. Some lim­it­a­tion to range of works cap­able of being com­pleted with­in anti­cip­ated total fund­ing to be expec­ted par­tic­u­larly in major cap­it­al projects.
Fin­ance: impact on Cairngorms NΡΑ budget management	Green	NLHF agree to extend grant award peri­od to 17th Aug 23. CNPA has exten­ded HH staff employ­ment con­tracts exten­ded to end Dec 23 to reduce pro­gramme deliv­ery risks.
Pro­cure­ment	Green	All tenders awar­ded and con­sult­ants in place. SEFARI fel­low­ship appoin­ted to Uni­ver­sity of High­lands and Islands.
Staff­ing	Green	All staff in place. New Pro­gramme Man­ager now in post to sup­port Head of HH.
Pro­ject exe­cu­tion and NLHF second phase applic­a­tion timescales	Green	NLHF agree to extend grant award peri­od and second phase sub­mis­sion date from end June 23 to 17th Aug 23.
Deliv­ery of Sus­trans fun­ded projects	Amber	Align­ing NLHF times­cales to meet Sus­trans ​‘Places for Every­one’ design stages yet to be resolved, res­ult­ing in ongo­ing uncer­tainty around these pro­jects. Addi­tion­al time to resolve provided by NLHF sub­mis­sion date extension.

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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 was planned to be sub­mit­ted by end June 2023.

Per­form­ance Over­view: Deliv­ery Against Stra­tegic Expectations

1. NLHF second phase sub­mis­sion date a) NLHF pub­lished its sub­mis­sion dates for fund­ing applic­a­tions in Novem­ber 2022. b) The new reques­ted sub­mis­sion date of May 2023 was unachiev­able under pre­vi­ously approved pro­ject deliv­ery plans. c) NLHF has now agreed to extend the CNPA grant award peri­od and second phase fund­ing sub­mis­sion date to 17^th Aug 23.

2. Staff­ing a) Full com­ple­ment of staff and con­sult­ants now in place. b) Jenny Allen joined CNPA as Pro­gramme Man­ager to sup­port Head of Her­it­age Hori­zons with devel­op­ment phase plan­ning and report­ing. c) CNPA has exten­ded 7 CNPA/​Heritage Hori­zons fun­ded staff mem­bers employ­ment con­tracts from July 23 to end Dec 23 to reduce pro­gramme deliv­ery risks, with aim of retain­ing staff know­ledge in expect­a­tion of a suc­cess­ful deliv­ery phase bid announce­ment by the end of 2023 and to allow pre­par­at­ory work togeth­er with sub­mis­sion of fund­ing bids to oth­er sources to con­tin­ue pending announce­ment of NLHF deliv­ery phase funding.

3. Research and Know­ledge Exchange a) CNPA received two applic­a­tions for the research fel­low­ship with Scot­tish Envir­on­ment Food and Agri­cul­ture Research Insti­tu­tion (SEFARI). We are delighted to wel­come the team at Uni­ver­sity of High­lands and Islands: Centre for Moun­tain Stud­ies as the suc­cess­ful applic­ant for this fel­low­ship. b) The pur­pose of the Fel­low­ship is to recom­mend a set of indic­at­ors, and asso­ci­ated data collection/​analysis meth­od­o­lo­gies which demon­strate pro­gress towards achiev­ing the out­comes of the Cairngorms 2030 pro­gramme, and the out­comes of

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NLHF. These recom­mend­a­tions will inform the devel­op­ment of a 5 Year Mon­it­or­ing and Eval­u­ation Plan being pro­duced by MB Associates.

1. Con­sultancy awards a) No addi­tion­al con­sultancy con­tracts were awarded.

2. Stra­tegic Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (SEA) and Hab­it­ats Reg­u­la­tions Apprais­als (HRAs) a) Babbity Envir­on­ment­al appoin­ted to under­take SEA/HRA in accord­ance with Sec­tion 8 (1) of the Envir­on­ment­al Assess­ment (Scot­land) Act 2005. b) The pro­ject is pro­gress­ing at a pace that will allow for a timely com­ple­tion of the SEA, with baseline reviews well under­way in ref­er­ence to the exten­ded scope (see below) and a famil­i­ar­isa­tion of the plans com­pleted. c) Babbity has begun to expand the scope of the SEA to include all pro­ject plans with­in the pro­gramme, to fully show­case and cel­eb­rate the pos­it­ive impacts of the 2030 pro­gramme. High level scop­ing for each of the plans with­in the pro­gramme, for poten­tial envir­on­ment­al effects, using the broad cat­egor­ies out­lined by the below SEA Top­ics is cur­rently underway.

   Top­ic 1: Cli­mat­ic Factors Top­ic 2: Air Top­ic 3: Water Top­ic 4: Soil (includ­ing geo­di­versityl) Top­ic 5: Mater­i­al Assets Top­ic 6: Biod­iversity, Flora and Fauna Top­ic 7: Land­scape and Cul­tur­al Her­it­age Top­ic 8: Pop­u­la­tion and Human Health

3. Com­mu­nic­a­tions and engage­ment a) Press and online activity:

   * Press release and online promotion. Heritage Horizons: Cairngorms 2030 Roadshow Events. [Read more information here](Read more information here)
   * Press release and online promotion. Community Climate Emergency Workshops. [Read more information here.](Read more information here.)
   * News. Call for a SEFARI Fellowship to join the Cairngorms 2030 Programme Team. [Read more here.](Read more here.)
   * Press release and online promotion. Community Arts and Culture project - artist residency. [Read more information here.](Read more information here.)
   * News. Report finds Cairngorms National Park could reach net zero well ahead of target. [Read more information here](Read more information here) and picked up by titles such as [The Scotsman.](The Scotsman.)
   * News (Park Talk). End of year message. [Read more information here.](Read more information here.)
   * Cairngorms Voices: Able2Adventure: helping to make the Cairngorms more accessible. [Read more information here.](Read more information here.)
   * Cairngorms Voices. UK's first Outdoor Dementia Resource Centre at Badaguish. [Read more information here.](Read more information here.)
   

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b) Online consultation: Commonplace
1. [What do you think is special about the Cairngorms Landscape?](What do you think is special about the Cairngorms Landscape?)
2. [Attend the Scottish Land Commission's Good Practice Autumn-Winter Webinar Series](Attend the Scottish Land Commission's Good Practice Autumn-Winter Webinar Series)
3. [Come along to our Blair Atholl community drop-in session](Come along to our Blair Atholl community drop-in session)
4. [Drop-in to our community roadshow event in Ballater](Drop-in to our community roadshow event in Ballater)
5. [Come to one of our climate emergency workshops](Come to one of our climate emergency workshops)
6. [Naomi Mcintosh Selected for Bothy Project and Cairngorms National Park Authority Heritage Horizons Artist Residency](Naomi Mcintosh Selected for Bothy Project and Cairngorms National Park Authority Heritage Horizons Artist Residency)
7. [Thank you for taking part message to respondents](Thank you for taking part message to respondents)

c) Regular promotion of community engagement events and HH updates across the Cairngorms National Park Authority social channels:
    * 99 posts in total
    * Reach of 96,490
    * 3,227 engagements
    * Targeted promotion of community engagement events in relevant online community groups

Per­form­ance Over­view: Risks Under Management

1. Mon­it­or­ing: Risk mon­it­or­ing con­tin­ues at CNPA team, theme, pro­gramme and seni­or man­age­ment level. The Park Authority’s Audit and Risk Com­mit­tee is also provided with the programme’s risk ana­lys­is pos­i­tion in order that this Com­mit­tee can scru­tin­ise pro­gramme risk man­age­ment and con­sider wheth­er there are any risk impacts on the stra­tegic risk pos­i­tion of the Cairngorms NPA as lead body.

2. Gov­ernance: Pro­gramme exe­cu­tion stage ongo­ing. No issues to report.

3. Cash flow: No issues to report.

4. Pro­cure­ment: Pro­cure­ment stage complete.

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1. Pro­gramme deliv­ery actions to end March 2023

Action	When
SEFARI Cairngorms 2030 Fel­low­ship starts	Janu­ary
Devel­op­ment phase eval­u­ation inter­views with pro­ject staff	Janu­ary — February
Draft pro­ject level 5‑year action plans cre­ated for all com­pon­ent pro­jects and shared with gov­ernance groups for review.	28th Feb­ru­ary
NLHF second phase applic­a­tion draft VI complete	31st March
Draft deliv­ery phase cost plan	31st March
Sub­mis­sion of papers to NLHF for inter­im review meet­ing sched­uled for 20 – 21st April 23.	6th April

Sig­ni­fic­ant Pro­gramme Change Requests

1. Second phase sub­mis­sion date changed from end June 2023 to 17^th August 2023.

Sig­ni­fic­ant Budget Adjustments

1. Employ­ment cost exten­sions from 1^st July to 17^th August 2023 will be met by NLHF provided scope remains with­in approved pro­gramme fin­ances to accom­mod­ate these costs.

2. Employ­ment con­tract exten­sions from 18^th August – 31^st Decem­ber 2023 will be met by CNPA as the lead body for the pro­gramme, togeth­er with any unfun­ded ele­ments of con­tract exten­sion to 17 August. The Park Author­ity is mon­it­or­ing this situ­ation with regards to devel­op­ment of its ²⁰²³⁄₂₄ budget estimates.

Con­clu­sions: Per­form­ance Over­view and Mat­ters Mer­it­ing Stra­tegic Review

1. The main risk for deliv­ery con­tin­ues to be the tight times­cales asso­ci­ated with man­aging mul­tiple pro­jects and meet­ing the NLHF second phase fund­ing applic­a­tion dead­line. This pres­sure has been mit­ig­ated by the grant award and sub­mis­sion date exten­sion to 17^th August 2023. Fur­ther mit­ig­a­tion has been imple­men­ted through suc­cess­ful recruit­ment of the Pro­gramme Man­ager role, provid­ing addi­tion­al staff resource capa­city needed to sup­port the coordin­a­tion of this wide range of mul­tiple pro­jects and their dependencies.

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1. The pro­duc­tion of the second phase NLHF applic­a­tion and sup­ple­ment­ary sup­port­ing doc­u­ments is pro­ceed­ing well.

a) Mile­stone second phase applic­a­tion draft vl com­ple­tion date 31^st March 2023. b) Des­pite the sub­mis­sion date exten­sion, the devel­op­ment phase team will remain com­mit­ted to achiev­ing the ori­gin­al June 2023 dead­line, thus leav­ing a 6‑week res­ol­u­tion peri­od for risk res­ol­u­tion, final checks, and approvals and avoid peak work­flows occur­ring dur­ing the tra­di­tion­al staff sum­mer hol­i­day period.

Dav­id Clyne 13^th Feb­ru­ary 2023 davidclyne@​cairngorms.​co.​uk