NOVEM­BER

2023

QUARTERLY

REPORT

PRE­PARED BY Nancy Chambers

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

PART OF THE Cairngorms Nation­al Park

NOVEM­BER 2023 QUARTERLY UPDATE

Updates

GRF – 3 pro­jects have now closed with some lovely res­ults. Wood­land Wheels quickly laid down their extra tar and par­ents with young chil­dren are enjoy­ing the extra space for run­ning beside their young cyc­lists on the track. Adapt­ive Snowsports very quickly bought their cam­era equip­ment, and it is being used reg­u­larly by groups, see our social posts and news updates for details. Badenoch Com­munity Con­nec­tions have been on their volun­teer recruit­ment drive and have the infra­struc­ture at the allot­ments in place. 3 pro­jects are still ongo­ing and will be updat­ing soon.

Nature Resi­li­ence Fund 22 – 23– All 4 pol­lin­at­or fund pro­jects are now closed. On the main fund, the Dee Fish­er­ies ripari­an tree plant­ing has closed. Skills for Bees pro­ject has closed and the RSPB wet­lands pro­ject at Ballin­lag­gan has now closed. There is one final pro­ject to close which has a final date of 30^th October.

Nature Resi­li­ence Fund 23 — 24 – Thanks to the CNPA there has been a fur­ther £50,000 alloc­ated to pro­jects bring­ing the total fund size to £110,000. All pro­jects have now accep­ted their OOG with two pro­jects hav­ing had a chance to get started.

Com­mu­nic­a­tions — Jen­nifer is con­tinu­ing to work with us 2.5 days per month. The day-to-day com­mu­nic­a­tions work well with monthly news­let­ters going out, social media posts and press releases as required. You will have noticed the web­site is in a new format and the 2024 cal­en­dar is ready for sale.

NOVEM­BER 2023 QUARTERLY UPDATE

Fun­drais­ing – I have spoken to a loc­al freel­ance fun­draiser who will re-design our fun­drais­ing pack for us to gain more know­ledge about us as an organ­isa­tion. If all goes well, she is happy to look at tak­ing on the Cam­paigns fun­drais­ing of around £5 – 8,000 with ideally around 50% to be raised through crowd­fund­ing and 50% to be raised through con­tacts with loc­al busi­nesses and an event. I will be con­tinu­ing to work along­side her if this goes ahead , she has a good net­work loc­ally and has a good track record in a fun­drais­ing environment.

Big Nature Fest­iv­al – I have recently spoken to Josie Slade who organ­ises the BNF. It is look­ing like it will move to Septem­ber. I am look­ing at cre­at­ing a fun­drais­ing event that works on 10 days – 10 walks and try­ing to raise funds through that for path main­ten­ance through the event.

New Funds

Park for All Fund – Tal­at Yaqoob will be co- ordin­at­ing the pro­ject and will be in touch to offer trust­ees the oppor­tun­ity to be a par­ti­cipant in the work­shops, both online and in per­son to look at the best way to devel­op a fund for equal­it­ies with­in the Cairngorms.

Path Main­ten­ance Cam­paigns Fund­ing ²³⁄₂₄ – | have attached the guid­ance and applic­a­tion for this next cam­paign fund. I have again set the aim to raise around £5,000 — £8,000. You will notice that I have broken this down into sev­er­al parts.Community Events, Online Crowd­fund­ing, and gen­er­al CT fun­drais­ing. I hope that by being very up front with this the com­munit­ies apply­ing to us for these pro­jects will be very much more engaged with alert­ing their com­munity that their pro­jects are hap­pen­ing and engage more with the fundraising.

ACE BIKE PROJECT

NOVEM­BER 2023

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

PART OF THE Cairngorms Nation­al Park

ACE pro­ject update The pro­ject is going well with 17 ebikes, 3 cargo ebikes and 1 etrike.

Most of the bikes are out on loan on a rotat­ing basis. In addi­tion to this the 3 NHS bikes now out and about with NHS staff in Aviemore.

I have re-issued the annu­al con­tract with Aviemore bikes.

There have been some lovely pos­it­ive stor­ies com­ing from the pro­ject this quarter, with a num­ber of par­ti­cipants going on to pur­chase their own ebikes and one par­ti­cipant has pur­chased an e- trike of the same design as the pro­ject has. Anoth­er par­ti­cipant was unable to fund the repairs to his car and used the ebike loan peri­od of 6 weeks to save for this and com­muted to work from near Boat of Garten to a hotel near Kin­craig on a daily basis by ebike for the full 6 week peri­od, they have attrib­uted the pro­ject to sav­ing his job over this period.

The quarterly report is attached for information.

CAM­PAIGNS PATH MAIN­TEN­ANCE FUND UPDATE

NOVEM­BER 2023

CAIRNGORMS TRUST GIVE PRO­TECT GROW

PART OF THE Cairngorms Nation­al Park

Brae­mar Soci­ety Bridge / Future Path Main­ten­ance cam­paigns funding

We are await­ing a fur­ther update from Brae­mar about the start date of the repairs. They are aware that all fund­ing will need to be spent in this fin­an­cial year.

Path Main­ten­ance Cam­paigns Fund­ing ²³⁄₂₄ — I have attached the guid­ance and applic­a­tion for this next cam­paign fund. I have again set the aim to raise around £5,000 — £8,000. You will notice that I have broken this down into sev­er­al parts .Com­munity Events, Online Crowd­fund­ing, and gen­er­al CT fun­drais­ing. I hope that by being very up front with this the com­munit­ies apply­ing to us for these pro­jects will be very much more engaged with alert­ing their com­munity that their pro­jects are hap­pen­ing and engage more with the fundraising.

Scor­ing and decisions for applic­a­tions will come to the Feb­ru­ary LAG meeting.

Quarterly Over­view DONA­TIONS IN AND CLAIMS OUT

NOVEM­BER 2023

Bank bal­ance 26^th June 2023 £241,269.37 Bank bal­ance 28^th Sept 2023 £199,570.39 July — Septem­ber 23 Dona­tions & Income In | Expenses Out Just Giv­ing (ACE) | £348.30 | Oper­at­ing Costs | £5,658.76 Glen­col­don (UR) | £283.12 | Comms freel­ance | £3,550.80 | | staff costs | Event­brite (pol­lin­at­or wkp — NR) | £21.61 | ACE pro­ject | £5,368 Payp­al (UR) | £1,140.45 | YLAG pro­ject costs | £8,098.40 Cal­en­dar 8 x months (UR) | £2,000 | YLAG claims out | £8,143.45 Wil­li­am Wilson (UR) | £150 | Green Recov­ery | £7,474.37 | | Claims Out | Interest (UR) | £701.01 | Nature Resi­li­ence | £8,399.34 | | Claims out | Cash Dona­tions (UR 220/ACE | £330 | Nature Resi­li­ence | £130.35 110) | | costs | ACE | £150 | | Total Dona­tions & Income | £5,124.49 | Total Expenses | £46,823.47