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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee 20 Septem­ber 2024

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Annex 1

Cairngorms 2030: Pro­gramme milestones

In column A: Blue Mile­stone word­ing has been changed Green Mile­stone added since last report Orange Mile­stone removed

In columns B‑E: Com­plete Mile­stone com­plete 31/08/2024 Mile­stone new since last report, or date has been added 31/08/2024 Mile­stone unchanged since last report 31/08/2024 Mile­stone has moved later but still with­in an appro­pri­ate times­cale 31/08/2024 Mile­stone has moved later with con­cerns about the time­frame for deliv­ery Mile­stone not noted in this quarter

Cairngorms 2030: Trans­form­ing land­scapes Pro­ject / mile­stones | Planned com­ple­tion as at —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| | | end Q1 | end Q2 | end Q3 | end Q4

1. Wood­land expan­sion Glen Fend­er; fen­cing; Phase 1 plant­ing; Phase 2 ground prep & plant­ing | | | 31/12/2024 | Dal­namein; Phase 1 fen­cing & ground prep; Phase 2 fen­cing & ground prep | | | 31/12/2024 | Aspen; engage Trees for Life to do Cairngorms Aspen Net­work devel­op­ment; com­plete a frame­work and spa­tial plan for Cairngorms Aspen net­work | | | | 30/06/2025 Mont­ane; com­plete nature net­works oppor­tun­ity map­ping; assess suit­ab­il­ity of Glen­shee scheme; devel­op pre­ferred scheme | | | | 31/12/2024 Ripari­an; com­plete nature net­works oppor­tun­ity map­ping; devel­op pre­ferred scheme | | | | 31/12/2024
2. Peat­land res­tor­a­tion Devel­op­ment phase — in pro­gress (16 pro­jects, Jan 24-Jun 24) | 13 | | | Devel­op­ment phase — com­plete (16 pro­jects, Jan 24 ‑Jun 24) | 12 | | | Deliv­ery phase — in pro­gress (16 pro­jects, March 24 — March 25) | 3 | 0 | | Deliv­ery phase — com­plete (16 pro­jects, March 24 — March 25) | 3 | 0 | | Close­down & com­ple­tion in pro­gress (16 pro­jects, June 24 — March 25) | 2 | 0 | | Close­down & com­ple­tion com­plete (16 pro­jects, June 24 — March 25) | 2 | 0 | |
3. Nature recov­ery Com­munity Agri Dam­age (WGDMG): 1.1 Devel­op Grant t’s and c’s, agree and sign | May 2024 | Aug-24 | | 1.2 Con­firm lar­der specs, place order for 2 lar­ders | June 2024 | Aug-24 | | 1.3 Lar­der ground works, deliv­ery, install­a­tion | Sept 2024 | Oct-24 | | 1.4 Begin cull, pro­cess ven­ison, deliv­er to foodbanks/​charities | Dec 2024 | Dec-24 | | C2030 Mon­it­or Estate: 2.1 Devel­op and agree Expres­sion of Interest (Eol), cir­cu­late to CNP landown­ers | May 2024 | Dec-24 | | 2.2 Identi­fy projects/​activities/​budgets with landowner(s) and agree imple­ment­a­tion sched­ule | June 2024 | Sep-24 | | 2.3 Devel­op matched fund­ing and oper­a­tion­al mod­el with part­ner landowner(s) | Sept 2024 | Sept-24 | | South Deeside North Angus DMG: 3.1 Con­firm riparian/​catchment pro­jects with SDNA mem­bers | May 2024 | Sep-24 | | 3.2 Con­firm Glen­muick ripari­an pro­ject, man­age bid­ding pro­ced­ure, agree start date | Sept 2024 | Sep-24 | | West Grampi­an DMG: 4.1 Con­firm deliv­ery phase organ­isa­tion­al struc­ture with WGDMG Steer­ing Group | May 2024 | Aug-24 | | 4.2 Con­firm cli­mate mit­ig­a­tion and biod­iversity pro­jects with WGDMG mem­bers, identi­fy sup­port­ing activ­it­ies and alloc­ate budget | June 2024 | Com­plete | | South Grampi­an DMG: 5.1 Reserve £40K budget for poten­tial FLS pro­jects | Apr 2024 | Com­plete | | 5.2 Real­loc­ate SGDMG budget to oth­er NbS pro­jects | Apr 2024 | Complete | |
4. Cairngorms future farm­ing Grant award let­ters signed | 09/04/2024 | Com­plete | | | Farm advice call-off con­tract on PCS | 16/04/2024 | Com­plete | | | Farm advisors appoin­ted | 23/05/2024 | Com­plete | | | Farm­ers locked in at least 1 option to try | 28/11/2024 | | | 28/11/2024 Farm­ers car­ried out at least 1 option | 30/07/2025 | | | 30/07/2025
5. Cli­mate resi­li­ent catch­ments Upper Dee Pre-plan­ning engage­ment com­plete | May 2024 | Com­plete | | | PoAN sub­mit­ted | May 2024 | July 2024 | | | Major plan­ning app sub­mit­ted | August 2024 | Oct 2024 | | | Plan­ning per­mis­sion received | Nov 2024 | | | Jan 2025 Slu­gain Bridge pro­cure­ment approach agreed with High­land Coun­cil — | April 2024 | Com­plete | | | Design con­sult­ant appoin­ted | June 2024 | July 2024 | | | Plan­ning app stage 1 sub­mit­ted | Sept 2024 | Aug 2024 | | | Dalghety Buy-out or altern­at­ive pro­cess agreed to take for­ward | Nov 2024 | | | Nov 2024
6. Green Fin­ance and com­munity wealth build­ing Pro­ject Ini­ti­ation Report | Com­plete | | | 29/3/2024 Devel­op Part­ner­ship agree­ments | | | 31/08/2024 | MoU agreed and signed | Com­plete | | | 20/6/2024 recruit­ment of GFO | 06/12/2024 | | | 06/12/2024 GFO appoint­ment made | 3/5/2024 | | | 06/12/2024 Devel­op pro­ject scope | 31/7/2024 | | | 06/12/2024
7. Land­scape & com­munit­ies Estab­lish meth­od­o­logy | | | | 31/12/2027 Estab­lish and main­tain links with com­munit­ies for engage­ment: Devel­op and estab­lish Cairngorms land­scape for­um, cham­pi­ons and/​or volun­teers | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2025 Stage one com­munity engage­ment: online sur­vey: Online sur­vey devel­op­ment (includ­ing test­ing) | | | 30/09/2024 | 28/02/2025 Pro­vi­sion­al iden­ti­fic­a­tion, illus­tra­tion and map­ping of SLQs | | | | 31/12/2024

Cairngorms 2030: Empower­ment Pro­ject / mile­stones | Planned com­ple­tion as at —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| | | end Q1 | end Q2 | end Q3 | end Q4

1. Effect­ive Com­munity engage­ment Estab­lish engage­ment team Train engage­ment team and C2030 staff | | | 30/06/2024 | Com­plete Devel­op work­ing prac­tices and engage­ment pro­cesses | | | 31/12/2024 | Devel­op plan of engage­ment for the first year | | 31/08/2024 | 31/08/2024 | Test and learn engage­ment mod­els Cit­izens assembly (or equi­val­ent form of par­ti­cip­at­ory demo­cracy) in pro­ces | | 30/09/2024 | 30/09/2024 Gami­fic­a­tion pro­ject estab­lished | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Research innov­at­ive meth­ods | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Engage­ment work­ing group meet­ings estab­lished | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Devel­op engage­ment mater­i­als, work­ing closely with comms col­leagues | tbc | | | 31/12/2024 Estab­lish and deliv­er engage­ment activ­ity for year 1 | | | 31/12/2024 Eval­u­ate, devel­op, refine — year 1 reflec­tions | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Volun­teer­ing — man­aged by Volun­teer­ing Man­agers | | | 31/12/2024 | Map and build on rela­tion­ships | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024
2. Cli­mate learn­ing & edu­ca­tion School Engage­ment picked up with each part­ner school | | | | Shared Learn­ing Event for School Staff before aca­dem­ic year end | 31/03/2024 | Com­plete | | James Ade induc­ted and work plan in place | | 30/06/2024 | Com­plete | | Engage­ment Plat­form Oper­a­tion­al and being used by schools | | 30/06/2024 | Com­plete | | Yr1 Activ­ity Plans in Place | | 30/06/2024 | Com­plete | | Yr. 1 Activ­ity Plans under­way | | 30/06/2024 | Com­plete | | Stor­ies of Change Yr. 1 iden­ti­fied | | | 30/09/2024 | LfS School Activ­ity Audit com­pleted and being updated reg­u­larly | | | 30/10/2024 | 30/10/2024 | | | 15/12/2024 | 15/12/2024
3. Cli­mate con­scious com­munit­ies Con­tact Loc­al Cli­mate Hubs (x4) indi­vidu­ally to share object­ives and pri­or­it­ies and explore where we can sup­port them and add value to their work and encour­age activ­ity in the Nation­al Park | | | 11/11/2024 | 11/11/2024 Con­tact Com­munity Cli­mate Groups to share object­ives, know­ledge re loc­al net­works / Hubs and explore where we can sup­port them and add value to their activ­it­ies | | 31/05/2024 | Com­plete | | Bring togeth­er Cli­mate Hubs to share inform­a­tion and identi­fy where we can add value to Hub areas in the Park, includ­ing pan Park | | 31/05/2024 | 01/11/2024 | Sup­port­ing activ­it­ies and events tak­ing place across the Park dur­ing Cli­mate Week | | Com­plete | | Con­sider devel­op­ing a web portal on new CNPA web­site to sign­post com­munit­ies to Cli­mate Hubs, news­let­ters and fund­ing oppor­tun­it­ies depend­ent on tim­ing of new web­site launch and capa­city in digit­al comms team | | 30/09/2024 | 30/09/2024 | Final­ise and deliv­er activ­ity plan in col­lab­or­a­tion with Cli­mate hubs and oth­er organ­isa­tions across the Nation­al Park | | 30/09/2024 | 30/12/2024 |
4. Com­munity Arts & Cul­ture Col­lab­or­a­tion Work­shops com­pleted | | 28/08/2024 | | Yr. 1 Cre­at­ive Activ­ity Plan in place / approved | | 15/09/2024 | 15/09/2024 | | Yr. 1 Cre­at­ive Activ­ity Plan Launched | | 16/10/2024 | 16/10/2024 | | Yr. 1 Res­id­ency com­pleted, and report approved | | 30/11/2024 | 30/11/2024 | |
5. Com­munity man­aged cli­mate grants Employ Cli­mate Grants Officer | | | 20/03/2025 | 20/03/2025 Induc­tion of Cli­mate Grants Officer & Admin Officer | | 31/03/2024 | Com­plete | | Test & learn across Cli­mate Adapt­a­tion Fund — work with Com­munity Grants team to test sys­tems & pro­cesses. Fund set up by August 2024 | | 31/05/2024 | Com­plete | | Engage­ment and workup | | 31/08/2024 | | | Decision mak­ing pro­cess | | | 31/08/2024 | | Out­puts and shar­ing | | 30/04/2024 | Com­plete | | Con­tin­ue work with Social Value Engine & make recom­mend­a­tions | | 30/06/2024 | 31/12/2024 | | Research cur­rent cli­mate funds avail­able to com­munit­ies with­in CNP & identi­fy gaps | | 31/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Decision mak­ing | | | 30/09/2024 | Look at scope of £50k fund for ²⁰²⁴⁄₂₅, work with engage­ment team & make recom­mend­a­tions to C2030 pro­gramme | | 30/09/2024 | 30/09/2024 | | Engage­ment and workup | | | 31/07/2024 | 31/07/2024 Out­puts and shar­ing | | | 30/09/2024 | Write work plan — will inform the rest of the mile­stones — to include: | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 M&E frame­work | | | 31/12/2025 | 31/12/2025 Engage with Lived Exper­i­ence Group; les­sons learned for EDI grants alloc­a­tion. Pro­cess agreed by Decem­ber 2024. | | 31/05/2024 | (Com­plete) | | | | | Com­plete | | | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024

Cairngorms 2030: Sus­tain­able trans­port Pro­ject / mile­stones | Planned com­ple­tion as at —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| | | end Q1 | end Q2 | end Q3 | end Q4

1. Cycle friendly Cairngorms Identi­fy pre­ferred sup­pli­er for E bike char­gers | | | | Install 5 E‑Bike char­ging sta­tions | | 31/07/2024 | 31/07/2024 | Pro­mo­tion­al cam­paign to raise aware­ness of the new E bike char­gers | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Deliv­er Skills ses­sions to min­im­um 2 primary schools | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Meet with rel­ev­ant com­munit­ies to devel­op sup­port for com­munity led loan schemes | | 30/06/2024 | 30/06/2024 | Tri­al scheme to allow rangers to use cargo bikes in 2 loc­a­tions | | | | 31/03/2025 Attend min­im­um 3 pub­lic events to raise aware­ness of pro­ject | | 31/10/2024 | 31/10/2024 | | Pro­cure pre­ferred supplier/​s for deliv­ery of com­munity training/​skills ses­sions | | 30/09/2024 | 30/09/2024 | | Determ­ine loc­a­tion for two Com­munity led loan hubs | | | |
2. Act­ive Com­munit­ies Recruit Sus­tain­able Trans­port Man­ager | | | | 31/12/2024 Recruit Sus­tain­able Trans­port Officer | | | | Recruit Gradu­ate Trans­port Officer | | | | 31/12/2024 Pre­pare and Sub­mit fund­ing applic­a­tions for Aviemore + 5 oth­er com­munit­ies. | | | | Secure con­struc­tion fund­ing grant offer for Dul­nain Bridge NMU | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 | Pre­pare ITT for design stages for PfE suc­cess­ful pro­jects | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 | Pro­cure and appoint con­sult­ants (where fund­ing is secured) | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 | Devel­op mon­it­or­ing baseline for indi­vidu­al pro­jects | | | Com­plete | Remainder to be defined once out­come of fund­ing bids is known (expec­ted April 24) | | | Complete |
3. Sus­tain­able travel P1 Per­sona devel­op­ment Detailed deliv­ery plan com­plete | | | Com­plete | Per­so­nas V1.0 com­plete | | | | P2 DRT — Badenoch & Strath­spey | | Sep-24 | Pro­ject deliv­ery plan — sign-off | | Com­plete | Com­plete | DRT act­ive in area | 14/06/2024 | | P3 Com­munity Trans­port — Upper Deeside | 26/07/2024 | 17/01/2025 Pro­ject deliv­ery plan — sign-off | | 13/10/2024 | | P4 Data and digit­al infra­struc­ture | | 01/11/2024 | 31/12/2025 | Nation­al data­sets — baselin­ing com­plete | 05/07/2024 | 13/10/2024 | | Bus pat­ron­age data — baselin­ing com­plete | | | 30/06/2025 | | P5 Glen­more Sus­tain­able Trans­port Plan | | | 30/06/2025 | | Pro­ject re-ini­tial­isa­tion com­plete | | | | Pro­ject deliv­ery plan sign-off | | | | P6 Pub­lic Trans­port improve­ments | | 13/10/2024 | On hold | Bikes on buses — Part­ner­ship and fund­ing pack­age agreed (Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil) | | | | Bus stops — exist­ing infra­struc­ture mapped | 12/07/2024 | | Aviemore Adven­turer — oppor­tun­it­ies for improve­ment doc­u­mented | 16/08/2024 | | Engage­ment complete | | | |
4. Chan­ging travel beha­viour Recruit Sus­tain­able Trans­port Man­ager | | 01/10/2024 | 01/10/2024 | Recruit Sus­tain­able Travel Beha­viours Officer | | | | Oppor­tun­it­ies for col­lab­or­a­tion found and pos­it­ive rela­tion­ships built with part­ner organ­isa­tions | | 01/10/2024 | 01/10/2024 | Detailed pro­ject plan­ning com­plete | | 01/10/2024 | 01/10/2024 | Deliv­ery of con­fid­ence build­ing activ­it­ies under­way | | | | 5 events atten­ded | | | | Ini­ti­at­ives to over­come bar­ri­ers iden­ti­fied | | | | Pro­mo­tion deliv­ery under­way | | | | Sig­nage and way­find­ing audit com­plete | 29/11/2024 | | Sig­nage and way­find­ing improve­ments under­way | | | | Com­plete | | Com­plete | | 30/09/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024

Cairngorms 2030: Health and well­being Pro­ject / mile­stones | Planned com­ple­tion as at —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| | | end Q1 | end Q2 | end Q3 | end Q4

1. Well­being Eco­nomy Well­being eco­nomy action plan approv­al (WEAP), CNPA Board | | | | Track Indic­at­ors through C2030 pro­jects — estab­lish actu­al baselines with key pro­jects dur­ing Q2. | | 30/09/2024 | 30/09/2024 | Devel­op resources — devel­op 2 case stud­ies for WE In year 1 | | 30/06/2024 | Com­plete | | Engage­ment activ­ity | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/03/2025 Annu­al mon­it­or­ing check on WE Indic­at­ors, and ME work on WE with­in C2030, and wider WEAP | | | 31/12/2024 | |
2. Pub­lic health & the out­doors Pro­mote Green Health Week and use feed­back to identi­fy groups and oppor­tun­it­ies that sup­port the pro­ject | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Devel­op resources for Nature Pre­scrip­tion pro­gramme (includ­ing a wel­come pack and indoor activ­ity kit). | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Com­plete devel­op­ment of an appro­pri­ate pro­gramme of train­ing for activ­ity pro­viders and loc­al organ­isa­tions, and com­mence deliv­ery (future dates tbc) | 30/11/2024 | Com­plete | | | Estab­lish aver­age patient con­tact capa­city pat­terns from refer­rals to inform ongo­ing plan­ning and deliv­ery | | 30/09/2024 | 30/10/2024 | | Roll out pro­vider agree­ment for cur­rently engaged rel­ev­ant organ­isa­tions across Badenoch and Strath­spey | | 30/09/2024 | 31/12/2024 | | Risk Man­age­ment pro­ced­ures are developed and signed-off. | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 | |
3. Out­door demen­tia resource centre Out­put 1. The monthly pro­gram of activ­it­ies will con­tin­ue to devel­op | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024 Out­put 2A: Explore the pos­sib­il­ity of cre­at­ing a net­work of demen­tia friendly paths at Bad­aguish. | | | | Out­put 2B: Explore the pos­sib­il­ity of obtain­ing more adapt­ive bikes for our par­ti­cipants to use. | | 29/05/2026 | 29/05/2026 Out­put 2C: The ODRC build­ing will be a more demen­tia friendly envir­on­ment | | 31/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Out­put 2D: A Green Health Refer­ral path­way for people with demen­tia will be estab­lished loc­ally | | | | | | | 31/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 Com­plete | | | | 31/12/2024 | 31/12/2024

Cairngorms 2030: Know­ledge exchange Pro­ject / mile­stones | Planned com­ple­tion as at —-| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| | | end Q1 | end Q2 | end Q3 | end Q4

1. Know­ledge exchange and research Pro­ject tasks Appoint eval­u­ation con­sult­ants | | | | Appoint and induct Know­ledge Exchange Co-ordin­at­or | 15/04/2024 | Com­plete | | | Appoint and induct PhD stu­dent | 13/05/2024 | Com­plete | | | M&E frame­work in place | 30/09/2024 | 30/09/2024 | | | M&E ini­tial review with con­sult­ants | 11/06/2024 | 02/10/2024 | | | Mon­it­or­ing plans for all pro­jects | 01/08/2024 | 27/09/2024 | | | KE web­site | 02/08/2024 | 30/08/2024 | | | Data review for year 1 | 28/03/2025 | 29/07/2025 | | | Pro­gramme tasks Recruit­ment | 24/01/2025 | 24/01/2025 | | | Pro­gramme shar­ing — team day | 14/06/2024 | Com­plete | | | Quarterly report­ing sys­tem | 23/04/2024 | Com­plete | | | Budget report­ing sys­tem | 15/03/2024 | Com­plete | | | Risk report­ing sys­tem | 29/03/2024 | Com­plete | | | Pro­gramme team review for year 1 | 29/03/2024 | 28/06/2024 | | | | 20/12/2024 | 20/12/2024 | | |