Oper­a­tion­al Plan – Annex 1

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Nature

NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
A1 — Net zero	Deliv­er­ing baseline report, mon­it­or and annu­ally report on pro­gress towards CNP achiev­ing net-zero and sub­sequently act­ing as a car­bon sink Lead on deliv­er­ing Cairngorms 2030, empower­ing people to con­trib­ute to net zero ambitions	Park Author­ity will work with part­ners includ­ing SG to estab­lish a Com­munity Cli­mate Action Hub.	Gav­in Miles		0.25
	Deliv­er 1,000 ha of new or expan­ded woodland	CNPA will inspire, encour­age and provide	Colin McCle­an	£10k — wood­land Chal­lenge Fund	1.0

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
A2 Wood­land expansion	with new and innov­at­ive uses of the Forest Grant Scheme as part of Cairngorms 2030. Pro­mote and admin­is­ter a Wood­land Chal­lenge Fund to sup­port land man­agers in the pre­par­a­tion of FGS applications.	advice on wood­land cre­ation, poten­tial forestry applic­a­tions & forest plans in the Park to landown­ers and Scot­tish Forestry in line with NPPP, Cairngorms Nature & Cairngorms Forest Strategy.
A3 — Peat­land restoration	Sup­port and fin­ance the res­tor­a­tion of peat­land, with 6,500 hec­tares restored by 2027	Peat­land skills train­ing pro­gramme to be developed with part­ners Guid­ance on integ­ra­tion of peat­land and wood­land to be developed with part­ners includ­ing how to pro­tect from herbivores.	Colin McCle­an	Peat­land Res­tor­a­tion Budget	7.6

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
A4 — Deer and herb­i­vore impacts	Work with Deer Man­age­ment Groups, as part of Cairngorms 2030, to deliv­er stra­tegic land man­age­ment plans to sup­port a reduc­tion in deer num­bers. Invest­ig­ate and tri­al mod­els which achieve policy out­comes and retain skills and employ­ment in the sec­tor Invest­ig­ate the effic­acy and prac­tic­al­it­ies of meas­ures used in assess­ing impacts	CNPA will work with part­ners on the Stra­tegic Board and Work­ing Groups in imple­ment­ing recom­mend­a­tions from the Deer Work­ing Group.	Colin McCle­an	£40K — future mod­els work	0.6
A5 Moor­land management	Lead the East Cairngorms Moor­land Part­ner­ship (ECMP) as a	Con­trib­ute to the devel­op­ment and	Colin McCle­an	£40K — ECMP projects	0.6

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
	demon­stra­tion of sus­tain­able moor­land man­age­ment deliv­er­ing both pub­lic and private interests.	imple­ment­a­tion of grouse moor licens­ing Coordin­ate and sup­port Cairngorms Upland Advis­ory Group
A6 Gamebird management	Estab­lish baseline and assess impact of gamebird releases on nat­ive biod­iversity. Pro­duce report & recom­mend­a­tions on poten­tial options based on impact assessment.		Colin McCle­an	£30K — Impact Study	0.2
A7 — Fire management	Devel­op an integ­rated wild­fire man­age­ment plan Estab­lish a baseline of deep peat	Con­trib­ute to the devel­op­ment and imple­ment­a­tion of muir­burn good prac­tice and licens­ing régime and clear com­mu­nic­a­tion about the risk of fires	Colin McCle­an		0.2

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
		and appro­pri­ate behaviour.
A8 — Farming	Com­plete pilot RLUP and RLUF Lead over­sight of deliv­ery of Cairngorms Nature Action Plan Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 Future Farm­ing pro­jects sup­port­ing farm­ers in achiev­ing car­bon neut­ral­ity and help­ing address the twin crises in the con­text of a prof­it­able farm business.	Coordin­ate and sup­port Cairngorms Nature part­ner­ship and Cairngorms Upland Advis­ory Group Work with part­ners to sup­port farm­ers and crofters through transitions	Sarah Hen­shall	£42k — pro­ject support	1.4

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
A9 Fresh­wa­ter systems	Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 Cli­mate Resi­li­ent Catch­ment pro­jects demon­strat­ing res­tor­a­tion com­pli­ment­ary to sur­round­ing land use that bene­fits com­munit­ies and wildlife.	Sup­port Catch­ment Man­age­ment Part­ner­ships and Fish­er­ies Boards	Sarah Hen­shall	£60k ‑Catch­ment man­age­ment part­ner­ship sup­port £67k — res­tor­a­tion pro­jects £38K — sur­vey & monitoring	1.2
A10- Eco­lo­gic­al network	Design, deliv­er and show­case a tem­plate for Nature Net­works to guide hab­it­at res­tor­a­tion pri­or­it­ies and sup­port land use decision mak­ing. Devel­op, pub­li­cise and admin­is­ter a sys­tem for encour­aging land man­agers to engage	Encour­age using test cases in the Nation­al Park to devel­op new think­ing and mod­els for the role of des­ig­nated sites in meet­ing the nature and cli­mate crises	Sarah Hen­shall	£50k — Aspen Pro­ject £53k — Oth­er eco­lo­gic­al net­work pro­ject sup­port and mapping	2.4

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
	with cre­at­ing Nature Net­works includ­ing a call for sites.
A11 — Eco­lo­gic­al restoration	Define and estab­lish a baseline on land man­aged prin­cip­ally for eco­sys­tem res­tor­a­tion. Encour­age more land in the Nation­al Park to be man­aged prin­cip­ally for eco­sys­tem res­tor­a­tion to meet the tar­get in the Park Plan.	Show­case eco­lo­gic­al res­tor­a­tion through land­scape scale part­ner­ships in the Park Con­trib­ute to the devel­op­ment and imple­ment­a­tion of 30 x 30	Sarah Hen­shall	£20k — Spey res­tor­a­tion study Oth­er pro­ject sup­port, com­mu­nic­a­tion and engage­ment activ­it­ies — £80K ECMP ref A5	0.2
A12- Cairngorms Nature Index	Design, deliv­er and show­case a Cairngorms Nature Index	Sup­port Cairngorms Nature partnership	Sarah Hen­shall	£50k — Cairngorms Nature Index £15k — oth­er pro­ject investment	1.8

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
	Estab­lish a bio­lo­gic­al data portal
A13 — Spe­cies recovery	Lead on beaver rein­tro­duc­tion. Lead on a caper­cail­lie emer­gency plan and long ‑term strategy. Lead on the Cairngorms rap­tor project.	Coordin­ate and sup­port the Cairngorms Nature part­ner­ship and deliv­ery of the Cairngorms Nature Action Plan. Foster col­lab­or­a­tion with Police Scot­land, Rap­tor Study Groups and land managers	Sarah Hen­shall	£65k ‑Cairngorms Nature pro­jects £45k — Rap­tor pro­ject £33k — Beaver rein­tro­duc­tion pro­ject sup­port £60k — Oth­er pro­ject invest­ment includ­ing Caper emer­gency plan	7.1

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24 FTE
A14-Green invest­ment	Pilot approaches to blen­ded pub­lic and private fin­ance to deliv­er net zero and biod­iversity tar­gets, whilst also provid­ing long-term bene­fits for land man­agers, investors and loc­al communities.	Sup­port res­tor­a­tion activ­it­ies at scale via land­scape partnerships.	Andy Ford	£20k — Pilot projects	0.6

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People

NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
B1: Work­ing-age population	Deliv­er and mon­it­or Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 Lead devel­op­ment of new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Lead the coordin­a­tion and devel­op­ment of Cairngorms Youth Action Team	Pro­mote devel­op­ment of sites with­in LDP Work in part­ner­ship with LAs to pro­mote coordin­ated deliv­ery of LDP Sup­port part­ners deliv­er­ing green skills youth appren­tice­ship or equi­val­ent skills and train­ing initiatives.	Gav­in Miles	LDP costs under Place (C1) Cairngorms Youth Action Team sup­por­ted via CLLD funding	0.5
B2: Well­being economy	Lead the devel­op­ment of Corner­stone Indicators	Pro­mote accred­it­a­tion schemes to promote	Gav­in Miles	(Budget require­ment shown under B4)	0.6

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	Lead devel­op­ment of Well­being Eco­nomy Action Plan to integ­rate eco­nom­ic and com­munity-led development	equal­it­ies and equal oppor­tun­it­ies Coordin­ate and sup­port Eco­nom­ic Steer­ing Group
B3: Real Liv­ing Wage	Pro­mote the devel­op­ment of Real Liv­ing Wages through Eco­nom­ic Steer­ing Group as part of Well­being Eco­nomy Action Plan	Con­trib­ute to research on Real Liv­ing Wage and sup­port ini­ti­at­ives to increase participation	Mur­ray Ferguson		0.1

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
B4: Skills and training	Devel­op CNPA as exem­plar of good prac­tice in youth train­ing and skills – emphas­is on Plan­ning Ser­vice, Peat­land, Ranger Ser­vice and Out­door Access and Cor­por­ate functions	Fin­an­cially sup­port tar­geted skills ini­ti­at­ives, ment­or­ing schemes and col­lab­or­at­ive busi­ness organ­isa­tions (e.g. Grow­biz, Coun­tryside Learn­ing Scot­land, Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship) Pro­mote schol­ar­ships and train­ing opportunities	Gav­in Miles	£90k — Grants to com­munity focused organ­isa­tions includ­ing Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship Train­ee ranger £ shown under C9	0.2 1.5 Ranger trainees
B5: Com­munity assets and land	Coordin­ate and pro­mote the devel­op­ment of Loc­al Action Plans/​Loc­al Place Plans	Pro­mote LCS Guid­ance through all part­ner­ship work	Gav­in Miles	Fund­ing to come from B7	0.2

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects — com­munity man­aged grant scheme; effect­ive com­munity engage­ment, etc.	Coordin­ate and pro­mote the devel­op­ment of com­munity owned or man­aged assets in the Park.
B6: New approaches to cit­izen participation	Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects – com­munity man­aged grant scheme; effect­ive com­munity engage­ment, etc	Sup­port devel­op­ment of train­ing for com­munity par­ti­cip­a­tion in planning.	Gav­in Miles		0.2
B7: Com­munity-led plan­ning and development	Coordin­ate and pro­mote the devel­op­ment of Loc­al Action Plans/​Loc­al Place Plans Act as account­able body or oth­er sup­port­ing role as required to underpin	Influ­ence stra­tegic devel­op­ment of nation­al focus on and design of CLLD to secure an adequate level of resourcing which con­tin­ues to focus on Cairngorms NP as an	Gav­in Miles	£87k — Grants to com­munity led organ­isa­tions £20k — dir­ect sup­port for com­munity projects	2.4

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	deliv­ery of Com­munity Led Loc­al Devel­op­ment (CLLD) in Cairngorms.	admin­is­trat­ive boundary.		£20k — Loc­al Place Plans sup­port £300k — CLLD Grant fund­ing via Cairngorms Trust
B8: Gael­ic lan­guage and culture	Devel­op the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan for CNPA Lead devel­op­ment and deliv­ery of Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects — Green Health	Pro­mote Gael­ic espe­cially though work on sus­tain­able tour­ism, com­munity devel­op­ment and rel­ev­ant her­it­age pro­jects Sup­port suit­able ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice	Olly Dav­ies		0.1
B9: Men­tal and phys­ic­al health	Lead devel­op­ment and deliv­ery of Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan	Sup­port suit­able ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice	Colin Simpson	£10k — Health Walks	0.6

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects — Green Health
B10: A Park for All	Lead on devel­op­ing deliv­er­ing new Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan Deliv­er the Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan and Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Action Plan. See B1 above re Youth Action Team	Pro­mote suit­able schemes and inform­a­tion Sup­port suit­able pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice	Kate Christie Colin Simpson	Budgets alloc­ated under indi­vidu­al actions	0.6

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	Devel­op Equal­it­ies Main­stream­ing Report and Plan Refresh and pro­mote Park for All cam­paign Lead coordin­a­tion of Equal­it­ies Advis­ory Panel
B11: Volun­teer­ing and out­door learning	Lead on deliv­er­ing new Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan Lead on recruitment/​training/​coordin­a­tion of volun­teers to care for Park	Work in part­ner­ship with landown­ers, com­munit­ies and Third sec­tor bod­ies to use volun­teers to care for the Park	Colin Simpson	£25k — juni­or rangers / JMA / edu­ca­tion £55k — volun­teer coordin­a­tion & inclu­sion support	1.25

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Place

NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
C1: Access to housing	Deliv­er and mon­it­or Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (LDP) 2021 Lead devel­op­ment of new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. Coordin­ate com­munity-led hous­ing network	Pro­mote need for invest­ment in public/​community own­er­ship of land. Work with loc­al author­it­ies to pur­chase hous­ing land through loc­al hous­ing strategies and stra­tegic hous­ing invest­ment plans. Sup­port com­munity and busi­ness hous­ing pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice.	Gav­in Miles	£20k — LDP viab­il­ity review	3.1

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
C2: New housing	Deliv­er and mon­it­or Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan 2021 Lead devel­op­ment of new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan. Coordin­ate com­munity-led hous­ing network	Pro­mote need for invest­ment in public/​community own­er­ship of land. Work with loc­al author­it­ies to pur­chase hous­ing land through loc­al hous­ing strategies and stra­tegic hous­ing invest­ment plans. Sup­port com­munity and busi­ness hous­ing pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice.	Gav­in Miles	£20k — Com­munity Hous­ing Support	0.4

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
		Sup­port devel­op­ment and and mon­it­or­ing of mech­an­isms to pro­mote hous­ing for liv­ing work­ing in Park
C3: Hous­ing and com­munity benefit	Lead devel­op­ment of new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Coordin­ate com­munity-led hous­ing network	Share best prac­tice and sources of fund­ing with com­munit­ies. Pro­mote need for invest­ment in public/​community own­er­ship of land. Work with loc­al author­it­ies to pur­chase hous­ing land through loc­al housing	Gav­in Miles	Fund­ing would come from B7	0.1

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
		strategies and stra­tegic hous­ing invest­ment plans. Sup­port com­munity and busi­ness hous­ing pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice.
C4. Vil­lage and town centres	Pro­mote regen­er­a­tion through Well­being Eco­nomy Action Plan and Com­munity Action Plans Lead devel­op­ment of new Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan	Fin­an­cially sup­port tar­geted ini­ti­at­ives and col­lab­or­at­ive busi­ness organ­isa­tions (e.g. Grow­biz, Coun­tryside Learn­ing Scot­land, Cairngorms Busi­ness Partnership)	Gav­in Miles	Fund­ing would come from B7	0.4

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects – act­ive travel, com­munity grant scheme	Par­ti­cip­ate in Scotland’s Towns Part­ner­ship scheme Sup­port suit­able pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice
C5: Vis­it­ors to the Nation­al Park	Deliv­er Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Action Plan (TAP) and Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan.	Sup­port pro­jects to devel­op the leg­acy of pre­vi­ous pro­jects to devel­op the Park (eg Badenoch; The Story­lands, Dark Skies	Gav­in Miles	£20k — Deliv­er TAP £20k — STEAM/SPAN & vis­it­or surveys	1

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	Lead the devel­op­ment of Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan Under­take vis­it­or sur­veys and col­late and share vis­it­or data.	Park, Snow Roads, etc) Use digit­al tech­no­logy to mon­it­or and influ­ence vis­it­or dis­tri­bu­tion and beha­viour Sup­port suit­able ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice
C6: A sus­tain­able destination	Deliv­er Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Action Plan and Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan.	Sup­port suit­able pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice	Gav­in Miles	Covered by C5	0.2

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
	Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects — act­ive travel, com­munity grant scheme
C7: Trans­port to and around the Park	Deliv­er Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan. Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects – act­ive travel, com­munity grant scheme, Glen­more Trans­port project.	Sup­port suit­able pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice Pro­mote need for investment	Colin Simpson	Included under C8	1.1
C8: Access­ible	Deliv­er Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan	Work in part­ner­ship with CBP to increase	Colin Simpson		4.5

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
path and cycle network	Devel­op and deliv­er Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan includ­ing pro­pos­als to reduce dis­turb­ance to key spe­cies and hab­it­ats. Lead on plan­ning and invest­ment in the Spey­side Way Long Dis­tance Route Deliv­er Cairngorms 2030 pro­jects – act­ive travel, com­munity grant scheme.	the pro­mo­tion and busi­ness engage­ment in the Spey­side Way Work to sup­port com­munity path groups See B11 on volunteering		£375k — cap­it­al for VIIP includ­ing digit­al infra­struc­ture £165k — main­ten­ance and improve­ment £50k — Act­ive travel
C9: High-qual­ity	Deliv­er Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan	Assist HIE in deliv­ery of the Cairngorm Moun­tain Masterplan.	Colin Simpson	£180k — part­ner ranger grants	12.7

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NPPP Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Deliv­ery	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial Resource 23⁄24	Staff Resource 23⁄24
vis­it­or experience	Devel­op and deliv­er Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan. Dir­ect­ory deliv­er CNPA Ranger Ser­vice and coordin­ate and sup­port fam­ily of Ranger Services	Assist CBP to ensure pro­mo­tion of access­ible facil­it­ies to visitors.
C10: Cul­tur­al heritage	Lead the devel­op­ment of Cairngorms Cul­tur­al Her­it­age net­work as part of Well­being Eco­nomy Action Plan with focus on com­munity involve­ment and interpretation	Sup­port suit­able ini­ti­at­ives through grant aid and advice See B8 on Gael­ic Lan­guage and Culture	Gav­in Miles	£15k — Con­tract to sup­port her­it­age network	0.2

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Cor­por­ate Object­ives: Organ­isa­tion­al and Communications

Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Activ­ity	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial resource 23⁄24	Staff resource 23⁄24
Plan­ning Service	Deliv­er Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment Ser­vice Deliv­er Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan Mon­it­or­ing & Enforce­ment Ser­vice Improvement	See Nature, People and Place	Gav­in Miles	£30k — ser­vice improve­ments and pro­ject sup­port £30k — leg­al £40k — eplanning	7.6
Coordin­at­ing deliv­ery, mon­it­or­ing and eval­u­ation of the NPPP delivery	Devel­op and imple­ment effect­ive NPPP per­form­ance man­age­ment framework.	Influ­ence and advise on part­ners’ resourcing and deliv­ery plans as they relate to Cairngorms invest­ment and activity.	Dav­id Clyne (Pro­ject man­age­ment Office)		2.5

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Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Activ­ity	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial resource 23⁄24	Staff resource 23⁄24
The best small pub­lic body in Scot­land to work for	HR and wider organ­isa­tion­al policy and pro­ced­ures are in place which reflect and where appro­pri­ate go bey­ond nation­al policy, industry stand­ards and staff feed­back, and thereby con­trib­ute to pos­it­ive over­all staff sur­vey feed­back and engage­ment. Meet the unique and diverse needs of all staff. Achieve recruit­ment and reten­tion tar­gets, as well as absence		Kate Christie	£70k — Facil­it­ies Improve­ments £13k — organ­isa­tion­al devel­op­ment actions £70k — Audio visu­al / ICT investment	7

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Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Activ­ity	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial resource 23⁄24	Staff resource 23⁄24
A respons­ive, effect­ive account­able body for the com­munity led loc­al devel­op­ment (CLLD) pro­grammes we support	and staff safety stand­ards. Achieve equal­it­ies tar­gets and deliv­ery of equal­ity out­comes Provide Account­able Body Ser­vices: fin­an­cial stew­ard­ship, gov­ernance, HR and organ­isa­tion­al support.	Influ­ence the devel­op­ment of nation­al CLLD policy: Recog­nise NP as a dis­tinct CLLD area and achieve fund­ing aspirations.	Dav­id Cameron		0.9
Lead suc­cess­ful deliv­ery of the Her­it­age Hori­zons: Cairngorms 2030 programme	Pro­gramme Deliv­ery Phase Bid approved. Pro­gramme mile­stones met. Pro­gramme per­form­ance management		Dav­id Clyne		5

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Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Activ­ity	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial resource 23⁄24	Staff resource 23⁄24
	frame­work shows effect­ive deliv­ery of agreed pro­gramme outcomes.
Effect­ively com­mu­nic­ate the work of the Park Author­ity and part­ners in deliv­er­ing the NPPP.	New Comms and Engage­ment strategy delivered aligned to NPPP object­ives. Comms activ­ity coordin­ated across a range of chan­nels, matched to spe­cif­ic audi­ences and desired out­comes (incl. beha­viour change).	Work with part­ners to estab­lish reg­u­lar shar­ing of key suc­cesses /​project activ­it­ies. Demon­strat­ing value of part­ner­ship with CNPA, encour­aging oth­ers to collaborate.	Oliv­er Davies	£115k — new web­site plus cur­rent host­ing / main­ten­ance £68k non web pub­lic­a­tions and inter­pret­a­tion and media activ­ity £57K — Nature Fest­iv­al & Nature comms	5.5
Cel­eb­rate the diversity of stake­hold­ers that live, vis­it and work in the National	Refresh the ​‘Park for All’ campaign.	Provid­ing a plat­form for under-represented	Oliv­er Davies	£5k — Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan	2.7

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Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Activ­ity	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial resource 23⁄24	Staff resource 23⁄24
Park through our comms activity.	Deliv­er spe­cif­ic comms cam­paigns aligned to our Pub­lic Sec­tor Equal­it­ies Duty (includ­ing LGBTI com­munit­ies, eth­nic minor­it­ies and audi­ences with disabilities).	indi­vidu­als / com­munit­ies of interest to share their stor­ies. Provid­ing advice and train­ing for key part­ners on how to adopt a sim­il­ar approach.	Louise Allen Kate Christie	£60k — stake­hold­er engage­ment and access­ib­il­ity work £50k — com­mu­nic­a­tions, surveys
Imple­ment robust, effect­ive and effi­cient intern­al con­trol and admin­is­tra­tion sys­tems sup­port­ing deliv­ery of our cor­por­ate objectives	Sched­uled review and renew­al of policies and pro­ced­ures. Extern­al review mech­an­isms sup­port policy devel­op­ment. Agreed recom­mend­a­tions acted on with­in timetable.	Imple­ment robust, effect­ive and effi­cient intern­al con­trol and admin­is­tra­tion sys­tems sup­port­ing deliv­ery of our cor­por­ate objectives	Louise Allen Kate Christie	£55k — data man­age­ment and busi­ness con­tinu­ity plan­ning out­sourced sup­port £20k — UKNP/NPP	10.8

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Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Object­ive	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Dir­ect Deliv­ery	Draft Cor­por­ate Plan Indir­ect Activ­ity	Head of Ser­vice Lead	Fin­an­cial resource 23⁄24	Staff resource 23⁄24
	Data man­age­ment and IT ser­vices transitioned to fully sup­port hybrid and cloud based working.			£63k — IT hard­ware and soft­ware replace­ment and renew­al £50k Shared ser­vices sup­port with Loch Lomond