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Cairngorms Annex3, Paper 1 Resources Com­mit­tee Nation­al Park Author­ity 04 Octo­ber 2024 Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

Page 1 of 1 Annex 3, Paper 1 Pro­jec­ted out­turn to the year end – Oper­a­tion­al Plan

			Actu­al			Fore­cast
		Adjus­ted budget	To end of August	Septem­ber	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Out­turn	Pro­jec­ted­fi­nal under/(over) spend
		£	£	£	£	£	£	£
A2	Wood­land expansion	10,000	2,298	0	2,702	5,000	10,000	0
A3	Peat­land restoration	3,050,000	9,928	220,357	1,664,408	916,979	2,811,672	238,328
A4	Deer and herb­i­vore impacts	5,000	6,800	0	(49,000)	49,000	6,800	(1,800)
A5	Moor­land management	20,000	6,986	0	4,000	8,000	18,986	1,014
A6	Moor­land management	35,000	0	0	0	35,000	35,000	0
A7	Fire man­age­ment	15,000	0	0	0	15,000	15,000	0
A8	Farm­ing	110,000	29,287	10,158	35,000	35,555	110,000	0
A9	Fresh­wa­ter systems	107,000	151	13,469	5,000	88,380	107,000	0
A10	Eco­lo­gic­al network	157,000	5,685	50,315	56,000	45,000	157,000	0
A11	Eco­lo­gic­al restoration	86,000	40,969	23,629	21,402	0	86,000	0
A12	Cairngorms Nature Index	30,000	0	0	30,000	0	30,000	0
A13	Spe­cies recovery	236,000	33,291	61,396	66,948	74,365	236,000	0
B4	Skills and training	90,000	14,500	75,500	0	0	90,000	0
B7	Com­munity-led plan­ning and development	100,000	15,000	85,000	0	0	100,000	0
B8	Gael­ic lan­guage and culture	2,000	2,000	0	0	0	2,000	0
B9	Men­tal and phys­ic­al health	7,500	1,516	1,984	2,000	2,000	7,500	0
B10	A Park for All	37,500	23,357	3,001	6,500	7,250	40,108	(2,608)
B11	Volun­teer­ing and out­door learn­ing OP	40,000	30,714	0	4,286	5,000	40,000	(0)
C1	Devel­op­ment of new LDP	20,000	0	0	10,000	10,000	20,000	0
C5	Vis­it­ors to the Nation­al Park	40,000	8,685	12,000	15,585	3,730	40,000	0
C8	Access­ible path and cycle net­work OP	140,000	25,810	41,151	30,639	40,000	137,600	2,400
C9	High qual­ity vis­it­or exper­i­ence OP	644,200	47,006	19,539	216,400	360,256	643,201	999
C10	Cul­tur­al Heritage	10,000	0	0	0	10,000	10,000	0
Comms	Com­mu­nic­a­tions and Engagement	156,621	79,918	980	37,944	37,780	156,622	(0)
	Total	5,148,821	383,900	618,479	2,159,814	1,748,295	4,910,488	238,334

Actu­al spend does not include any commitments

Pre­dicted spend to the year end based on forecasts

1. Fore­casts for the com­ing three quar­ters indic­ate deliv­ery of oper­a­tion­al plan expendit­ure with­in the revised budget. Only £238k of the budget for peat­land res­tor­a­tion remains unal­loc­ated at present. Dis­cus­sions with the peat­land team in recent weeks reflect a pos­it­ive upturn in pro­jects being taken for­ward by land man­agers in part­ner­ship with the team and a sig­ni­fic­ant reduc­tion in the pro­jec­ted level of fore­cast under­spend. There is poten­tial that remain­ing fin­ance will be required to off­set cost increases in com­mit­ted, con­trac­ted projects.