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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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EAP Meet­ing Held vir­tu­ally on the 25 April 2023 Present: Anna Ronayne Anita Howard Becca Mayo Brenna Jessie Fiona McLean (Chair) Heath­er Earn­shaw Kate Christie Kath­er­ine Will­ing Kev­in Hutchens Linda Bam­ford Peter Kennedy Sjo­erd Tel

Apo­lo­gies: Lil­liana Cor­ri­eri Lina Payne Stu­art Hall

1. Item one: Wel­come • Fiona wel­comed the group to the meeting.
2. Item two: Recap and actions from pre­vi­ous meet­ing on 28 March 2023 • Minutes from the pre­vi­ous meet­ing were agreed. • The action log was reviewed.
3. Item three: Act­ive Com­munit­ies Badenoch and Strath­spey — Sjo­erd Tel and Anna Ronayne, Sus­tain­able Trans­port Officers • Sjo­erd and Anna informed the pan­el of the pro­gress since they last presen­ted to the pan­el a year ago. Sjo­erd and Anna updated the pan­el on how com­mu­nic­a­tion and con­sultancy with com­munit­ies had pro­gressed. The pan­el were asked to con­sider the pro­gress to date, the approach to equal­ity, diversity, and inclu­sion in deliv­er­ing the pro­jects and advise, if appro­pri­ate, about how the team could fur­ther improve their approach. • The pan­el advised the speak­ers to review the use of lan­guage, the pan­el sug­ges­ted that in places the lan­guage reflec­ted the med­ic­al mod­el of dis­ab­il­ity as opposed to the social model

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Page 2 of 3 • of dis­ab­il­ity which is prefer­able. There was also dis­cus­sion sur­round­ing the word ​‘wheel­ing’, the speak­ers gave an explan­a­tion as to why this was not being used in this con­text. • The pan­el asked wheth­er the Act­ive Travel Prin­ciples reflec­ted the 20-minute neigh­bour­hoods. The speak­ers advised that due to the rur­al loc­a­tion this was not always pos­sible, and the inten­tion is not to over­prom­ise. The speak­ers explained that instead they had tried to incor­por­ate the bene­fits and focus on liv­ing well loc­ally. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted that the pro­jects should con­sider the Inclus­ive Mobil­ity Guidelines, the Place Stand­ard Tool, and the Out­door Access Design Guide. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted ensur­ing that there are paper cop­ies for those who do not have access to the inter­net. The pan­el also sug­ges­ted speak­ing to coun­cil com­mit­tees who are look­ing at poverty, speak­ing to loc­al Cit­izens Advice Bur­eaus, dis­cuss­ing with home­less­ness groups, provid­ing social work­ers and com­munity work­ers with the inform­a­tion, and the high­land coun­cil equal­ity officer. The pan­el also sug­ges­ted speak­ing to the Fam­ily Hol­i­day Fund and users of the Spey­side way. The speak­ers explained the import­ance of dis­tin­guish­ing between walk­ing and cyc­ling for leis­ure verses for trans­port and this pro­ject focuses on the trans­port side so some of these con­tacts may be more applic­able to oth­er col­leagues and pro­jects. • The chair encour­aged the speak­ers to return later to dis­cuss bey­ond the infra­struc­tur­al changes.

1. Item four: Broad Dis­cus­sion on Equal­it­ies and Com­mu­nic­a­tions – Brenna Jessie, Digit­al Con­tent Man­ager • Brenna gave an over­view of the change in the CNPA com­mu­nic­a­tions approach. Brenna explained that the cur­rent focus if try­ing to pri­or­it­ise voices from with­in the park where this is pos­it­iv­ity and where there are chal­lenges. Brenna asked the pan­el for areas where pos­it­ive sig­nals could be sent and for any feed­back on the social media chan­nels and web­site. • The pan­el felt the main thing miss­ing from social media chan­nels and web­site was a defin­i­tion or state­ment of what a ​“park for all” is. The pan­el sug­ges­ted that this could be done in video format such as a non-scrip­ted video with indi­vidu­als explain­ing what they felt a park for all meant. • To avoid the work becom­ing per­form­at­ive, the pan­el sug­ges­ted that the events and actions that are truly rep­res­ent­at­ive should be com­mu­nic­ated, for example the Equal­ity Advis­ory Pan­el but to be clear in com­mu­nic­at­ing that there is work to still be done, the pan­el sug­ges­ted that the web­site should clearly com­mu­nic­ate where improve­ments are needed. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted using a web access­ib­il­ity tool on the cur­rent web­site to see where poten­tial improve­ments could be made. • The pan­el sug­ges­ted the cur­rent search func­tion on the web­site is dif­fi­cult to use.

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Page 3 of 3 • The pan­el sug­ges­ted that inform­a­tion on access­ib­il­ity should be front and centre on the web­site. Cur­rently it is either dif­fi­cult to find or does not exist. The pan­el sug­ges­ted that cur­rently access­ible and rep­res­ent­at­ive inform­a­tion felt hid­den. • The pan­el also dis­cussed with Brenna how some part­ners, busi­ness or organ­isa­tions are rep­res­ent­at­ives of the cairngorms brand but do not have good access­ib­il­ity prac­tices. The pan­el dis­cussed with Brenna how import­ant it is that all those using the brand under­stand access­ib­il­ity prac­tices such as use of back­ground col­our in prin­ted media.

1. Item five: Any oth­er busi­ness • The equal­ity mon­it­or­ing sur­vey has been shared with all mem­bers of the pan­el as agreed. • The SCVO gath­er­ing was dis­cussed but it was agreed that CNPA do not cur­rently have the resources. • The tim­ing of a poten­tial in-per­son meet­ing was briefly dis­cussed. It was agreed that July and August were not an appro­pri­ate time, it was agreed that Septem­ber of Octo­ber may be more appropriate.

End of meeting

Next meet­ing 30 May 2023