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Annex 1- Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan Delivery

Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Man­aging for Visitors
Devel­op the Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Group to bring togeth­er key pub­lic sec­tor part­ners, land man­agers and busi­nesses and par­ti­cip­ate in nation­al arrangements.	Meet­ings delivered	Ongo­ing	Fort­nightly meet­ings held between April and Octo­ber mov­ing to monthly meet­ing held in the winter.
Influ­ence vis­it­or beha­viour through a series of ini­ti­at­ives that include:
Pro­mot­ing mes­saging that vis­it­ors should ​‘tread lightly’ as the main means of pro­mot­ing the Scot­tish Out­door Access Code in the Nation­al Park	Updated Tread lightly in the Park con­cer­tina leaflet	Ongo­ing	Tread lightly leaf­let re-prin­ted and Fire leaf­let updated; both in circulation.
Provid­ing clear guid­ance on recre­ation­al activ­it­ies such as wild camp­ing and water sports	Updated inform­al camp­ing advice note Water users advice published	Water sports — March 24. Camp­ing — May 25	Water access guid­ance note writ­ten, con­sul­ted on and published.
Devel­op­ing stand­ard sig­nage for key mes­sages that pro­mote the Scot­tish Out­door Access Code and sup­port­ing land	Caper­cail­lie and dogs on lead signs dis­trib­uted Updated SOAC posters.	Caper­cail­lie signs — end Feb 24. SOAC posters — ongoing.	New Caper­cail­lie sens­it­ive site sign pro­duced and dis­trib­uted to rel­ev­ant land man­agers in Mar 24.

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
man­agers to use signs to help them pro­mote respons­ible access
Ensure a wide range of audi­ences are engaged with through the use of dif­fer­ent plat­forms, access­ible formats, and dif­fer­ent languages	Tread lightly mes­saging avail­able in for­eign languages	Ongo­ing	Tread Lightly leaf­let avail­able in 10 lan­guages — avail­able to down­load from Nation­al Park website.
Work­ing well with Police Scot­land and Scot­tish Fire and Res­cue Ser­vice to reduce rur­al crime and ensure appro­pri­ate enforce­ment meas­ures are in place	Stand­ard oper­at­ing pro­ced­ures agreed with all rel­ev­ant forces	Ongo­ing	Police Patrols with rangers organ­ised in Glen­more and Deeside with oper­a­tion­al orders writ­ten for each Police divi­sion involved. Guid­ance for ranger ser­vices pro­duced in part­ner­ship with Police Scot­land on when and how to escal­ate incid­ents to 101 and 999.
Devel­op ded­ic­ated cam­paigns for new audi­ences in part­ner­ship with part­ners to pos­it­ively influ­ence spe­cif­ic vis­it­or beha­viours such as fires, toi­let­ing and road­side or overnight parking	Revised and update Cairngorms Busi­ness part­ner­ship SOAC materials	2026 / 2027	To be developed
Con­sult on options around fire byelaws for the Nation­al Park [inclu­sion in plan	10 week pub­lic con­sulta­tion completed	2024 / 2025	Bylaw word­ing con­sulta­tion underway

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
sub­ject to Board decision in Nov 23]
Invest­ig­ate the viab­il­ity of a vis­it­or wel­come app for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park, provid­ing guid­ance to vis­it­ors and giv­ing real-time data on vis­it­or distribution	Vis­it­or facing app developed	March 2026 — March 2027	To be developed but also linked to deliv­ery of new website
Devel­op our cap­ab­il­ity to col­lect and ana­lyse inform­a­tion about vis­it­or dis­tri­bu­tion and beha­viour spa­tially using digit­al technology.	Annu­al vis­it­or data report published	2025 / 2026	To be developed
Deliv­er a pro­gramme to sup­port best prac­tice with­in the land man­age­ment sec­tor on safe­guard­ing access rights to reduce access obstructions	Two events delivered	2026 / 2027	To be developed
Min­im­ising impacts on sens­it­ive spe­cies and habitats
Devel­op and util­ise meth­ods for meas­ur­ing the impact of dis­turb­ance on sens­it­ive hab­it­ats and spe­cies – to be used to build a strong evid­ence base to help inform future	Mon­it­or­ing and eval­u­ation frame­work in place	April 2025 — March 2026	To be developed

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
man­age­ment measures
Util­ise a spa­tial plan to pri­or­it­ise the man­age­ment of reduc­tions in recre­ation­al dis­turb­ance to spe­cies and habitats	Map pub­lished	April 2024 — March 2025	Dis­cus­sions under­way with key part­ners to identi­fy key man­age­ment meas­ures for sens­it­ive sites.
Reduce the impact of recre­ation on ground-nest­ing birds by imple­ment­ing site-spe­cif­ic actions and ini­ti­at­ives with land managers	Man­age­ment agree­ments in place	Ongo­ing	Ranger patrols under­taken on iden­ti­fied sens­it­ive sites
Devel­op and deliv­er ​“Dog Friendly Cairngorms” pack­age for the Nation­al Park including:
Sup­port­ing com­munit­ies to cre­ate and devel­op dog walk­ing spaces to meet the needs of dogs and reduce pres­sure on sens­it­ive areas for wildlife.	Boat of Garten pilot delivered two com­munity dog walk­ing ini­ti­at­ives delivered	2025 – 2028	Boat of Garten com­munity dog walk­ing pilot com­pleted in Octo­ber 2024. Com­munity cam­paign delivered based on beha­viour sci­ence prin­ciples. Pos­it­ive changes wit­nessed ie more dogs on leads and improved Caper­cail­lie breed­ing indic­at­ors. Pilot to con­tin­ue with phase II to respond to feed­back, include work with wider audi­ences / nearby sites and further

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
		invest­ig­a­tion of dog walk­ing space.
Build know­ledge and sup­port by devel­op­ing an act­ive com­munity of dog own­ers with inform­a­tion and understanding.	Com­munity dog walk­ing group in place	2025 – 2028	To be developed
Devel­op fur­ther with users best prac­tice for bikes includ­ing sup­port­ing the deliv­ery of the Moun­tain Bik­ing Recre­ation Man­age­ment Plan for Badenoch and Strathspey	Trail Feath­ers devel­op­ment plan delivered	Ongo­ing	Map­ping of inform­al trails on sens­it­ive sites in Aber­deen­shire near­ing com­ple­tion. Will be used to devel­op a man­age­ment plan going forward
Update guid­ance on out­door events to pro­mote best practice	Updated guid­ance published	2025	To be developed

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Work with wild­life and activ­ity guides to devel­op spe­cif­ic loc­al train­ing and codes of con­duct for sens­it­ive sites and spe­cies e.g., twin flower, beavers, rap­tors and leks.	Code of con­duct pro­duced. Train­ing ses­sions run	Ongo­ing	Access officer presen­ted to wild­life / activ­ity guides at two Beaver train­ing ses­sions (April 2024). Lek it Be cam­paign ran in Spring includ­ing sup­port from dawn ranger patrols.
Ranger Ser­vices
Coordin­ate and devel­op the fam­ily of ranger ser­vices to ensure cov­er­age and deploy­ment across the whole Nation­al Park and align­ment with nation­al arrangements	Devel­op­ment of region­al ranger groups and for each a sched­ule of meet­ings, train­ing and work pro­grammes. Annu­al ranger get togeth­er. Devel­op­ment of Ranger hand­book and induc­tion pro­gramme. Con­sist­ent data col­lec­tion across ser­vices to feed into nation­al report­ing programmes.	Ongo­ing	Three region­al ranger groups have been set up and have met four times this year. Meet­ings con­sist of site vis­its and shar­ing best prac­tice, with form­al meet­ings cov­er­ing train­ing, key mes­sages, part­ner­ship work­ing and communications.
Devel­op the Ranger Man­agers Group that brings togeth­er pub­lic sec­tor and site-spe­cif­ic ranger ser­vices to ensure a coordin­ated approach and to feed into the national	Annu­al man­agers meet­ing. Involve­ment in agen­das and minutes from region­al ranger group meet­ings and annu­al get — together	On-going	Update news­let­ter to go to ranger man­agers in Novem­ber 2024 detail­ing activ­ity through the year and plans going forward.

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
arrange­ments for rangers.
Devel­op the pro­gramme of train­ing to devel­op best prac­tice and a com­mit­ted and skilled workforce	The Park Author­ity Fam­ily of Ranger Ser­vices annu­al train­ing pro­gramme, shaped from region­al ranger groups and the core com­pet­en­cies of a pro­fes­sion­al ranger as iden­ti­fied by Scot­tish Coun­tryside Rangers Asso­ci­ation (SCRA).	March 2025 — March 2026	Train­ing delivered to fam­ily of rangers this sea­son (March-Octo­ber): a) Police Scot­land b) Scot­tish fire and res­cue Ser­vice c) Safe and Sound con­flict man­age­ment d) Listen up Speak Up child pro­tec­tion training.
Devel­op skills and new career path­ways to help people into employ­ment with ranger services	Train­ee ranger train­ing pro­gramme developed pro­mot­ing this and oth­er pro­grammes ran by partners.	On-going	Four train­ee rangers com­pleted a three-month train­ee­ship in 2024, with train­ing and skills delivered through pro­fes­sion­al bod­ies and part­ner ranger ser­vices across the Nation­al Park.
Pub­lic Health and the Outdoors
Embed path­ways to green health and nature with­in GP Prac­tices, social care and education	Num­ber of refer­rals via GP and self-refer­ral options	2024 – 2029	Total refer­rals to date — 50 (Octo­ber 2024), with 62% uptake. Ongo­ing six- monthly meet­ings with GP Prac­tices and Health and Social Care Teams

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
		delivered to pro­mote project.
Make Green Health oppor­tun­it­ies more visible:
Main­tain up-to-date inform­a­tion for green health oppor­tun­it­ies and pro­mote widely with­in communities:	Monthly What’s On for Badenoch and Strath­spey Net­work. Con­tent pub­lished on Think Health Think Nature (THTN) website	2024 – 2029	Posters and leaf­lets have been made for com­munit­ies, primary care (Vis­ion users) and sec­ond­ary care NHS staff. Final­ised by Comms team (Octo­ber 2024) and shared more widely with NHS High­land comms team.
Devel­op ​“green health” inform­a­tion on the Park Author­ity website:	Green Health web page	April 2025 — March 2026	Web­site con­tent sub­mit­ted for inclu­sion on new website
Pro­mote Green Health Week	Green Health Week activ­it­ies delivered	ongo­ing	Com­pleted May 2024. Comms plan and pro­gramme to be developed for May 2025.
Nur­ture strong com­munity net­works that will provide, and sup­port access to, recre­ation­al oppor­tun­it­ies for wellbeing:

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Fur­ther devel­op Green Health oppor­tun­it­ies with key players:	Con­tin­ued email cor­res­pond­ence to the Badenoch and Strath­spey Green Health Net­work with monthly event updates, quarterly in- per­son meet­ings, and promotion/​fund­ing of appro­pri­ate training.	2024 – 2029	Spring net­work meet­ing held in March 2024 hos­ted by Trail Ther­apy / Cairngorm Con­fid­ence Out­doors. Sum­mer net­work meet­ing held in August 2024, hos­ted by Grant­own Hub. Train­ing needs iden­ti­fied: Men­tal Health First Aid Train­ing and fund­ing guid­ance. Monthly news­let­ter issued to net­work. Con­tin­ue to identi­fy and add new mem­bers to the net­work (60+ mem­bers Oct 2024).
Work with Ranger Ser­vices to integ­rate Green Health into the wider learn­ing and engage­ment work (e.g. school vis­its, Juni­or Rangers etc).	Col­lab­or­at­ive pro­jects and var­ied path­ways to Green Health	2025	In pro­gress. Chal­lenges with capa­city to sup­port indi­vidu­al young people (unless with a parent/​guard­i­an or carer). Col­lab­or­at­ive work with Volun­teer Cairngorms to identi­fy oppor­tun­it­ies for refer­rals and increase provision.
Liaise with spe­cif­ic com­munity sup­port organ­isa­tions to sup­port par­tic­u­lar groups, eg, carers and young carers, eth­nic minor­it­ies, sea­son­al work­ers, etc	Ongo­ing — tar­geted sup­port through Green Health Week	2024 – 2029	Green Health Week (GHW) 2024 — iden­ti­fied spe­cif­ic groups to invite to events. Will apply sim­il­ar meth­od to GHW 2025.

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Devel­op demen­tia- friendly walks in each com­munity with­in the Nation­al Park	Num­ber of Health Walks accred­ited as ​‘Demen­tia Friendly’	2024 – 2029	Demen­tia Friends online train­ing will be offered to all Health Walk Lead­ers in Novem­ber 2024 with a view to assess­ing interest in becom­ing Demen­tia Friendly accred­ited Health Walks. One volun­teer man­ager recently under­took refresh­er train­ing from Paths for All in Demen­tia Friendly Health Walk Lead­er train­ing ready to train volun­teers. Staff from Bad­aguish Out­door Demen­tia Resource Centre have begun attend­ing Health Walks with clients
Devel­op and pro­mote a health walks pro­gramme in each com­munity of the Park	Num­ber of Health Walks supported	2024 – 2029	In the pro­cess of estab­lish­ing a new Health Walk in Kin­craig: New lead­er iden­ti­fied and trained, aim­ing to launch in Spring 2025. Tri­al­ling new approach to Health Walk deliv­ery in part­ner­ship with the High­land Wild­life Park. Con­tinu­ing to sup­port 11 exist­ing Health Walks across the Nation­al Park area with train­ing, pub­li­city, guid­ance and celebration

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Devel­op tar­geted pro­mo­tion activ­it­ies for those liv­ing sedent­ary life­styles (for example, Green Health Week, World Men­tal Health day, Nature Fest­iv­al etc,) to deliv­er and pro­mote Green Health opportunities.	Green Health Week/​Requires sup­port from Comms	2024 – 2029	Comms plan for 2025 being developed through Cairngorms 2030 programme
Volun­teer Cairngorms
Increase the num­ber of volun­teer rangers to meet the needs of part­ners and the Park Authority:
Deliv­ery of recruit­ment programmes	Volun­teer Ranger recruit­ment takes place at least annually	2024 – 2029	26 new volun­teer rangers com­menced spring 2024. Next Volun­teer Ranger intake late 2025
Mon­it­or and eval­u­ate the demand and need of part­ners who provide oppor­tun­it­ies for Volun­teer Rangers:	Ongo­ing part­ner­ship reviews with exist­ing part­ners. Engage­ment with new poten­tial partners	2024 – 2029	Cur­rently under­tak­ing annu­al review of Volun­teer Ranger involve­ment with part­ners across the Nation­al Park
Main­tain high qual­ity volun­teer man­age­ment and the Volun­teer Cairngorms portal:	Oppor­tun­it­ies on CER­VIS portal for Volun­teer Rangers	2024 – 2029	4234 hours of Volun­teer Ranger (VR) activ­it­ies in 2024 (as of 21 Octo­ber) across 21 part­ner organisations/​landown­ers. 896 hours of VR train­ing delivered. Tri­alled VR-led train­ing, with demand for more from VRs.
Main­tain and deliv­er high qual­ity Volun­teer Ranger Pro­gramme and mon­it­or capa­city of the Park Author­ity to deliv­er it.	Ongo­ing sur­veys and feed­back to mon­it­or qual­ity of volun­teer experience

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Devel­op and man­age the Volun­teer Exper­i­ence Pro­gramme (VEP) to spe­cific­ally encour­age new and under-rep­res­en­ted groups into volun­teer­ing (e.g. carers and young carers, eth­nic minor­it­ies, LGB­TQ people, dis­ab­il­ity audi­ences, sea­son­al work­ers, etc)	Engage­ment groups each year to sup­port VEP visits	2024 – 2029	Four sep­ar­ate groups (one new) have been involved in the Volun­teer Exper­i­ence Pro­gramme in 2024, with 169 par­ti­cipant places filled
Increase volun­teer­ing oppor­tun­it­ies linked to green health activ­it­ies, and sup­port a vibrant com­munity of volun­teer Health Walk Lead­ers across the Park to deliv­er a Health Walks Pro­gramme with a health walk in every community	Sup­port to com­munit­ies seek­ing to devel­op their own green health opportunities	2024 – 2029	To be developed
Pro­mote aware­ness of envir­on­ment­al volunteering:
Advert­ising oppor­tun­it­ies through the Volun­teer Cairngorms portal	Grow the num­ber of part­ners and oppor­tun­it­ies advert­ised on the portal	2024 – 2029	Oppor­tun­it­ies — both new and exist­ing — con­tin­ue to be advert­ised through the CER­VIS portal for the pub­lic. 2166 volun­teer­ing hours delivered through Volun­teer Cairngorms in 2024 (as of 21 October)

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Devel­op­ing / sup­port­ing a series of awareness/​recruit­ment events	Events held	2024 – 2029	across 15 sep­ar­ate organisations/​landowners To be developed
Pro­mot­ing value of envir­on­ment­al volun­teer­ing through media outlets.	Com­mu­nic­a­tions (with comms sup­port) through the Park Author­ity and Volun­teer Cairngorms channels	2024 – 2029	Com­mu­nic­a­tions con­tin­ue to be ongo­ing through the Park Author­ity (social media and Cairn magazine) and Volun­teer Cairngorms chan­nels (news­let­ter). Spe­cif­ic volun­teer­ing oppor­tun­it­ies offered as part of UK- wide Nation­al Parks Big Week­end of Volun­teer­ing with asso­ci­ated col­lab­or­at­ive publicity
Cre­ate a Cairngorms Lit­ter Net­work to coordin­ate and encour­age com­munity-based lit­ter pick­ing and sup­port rel­ev­ant lit­ter­ing aware­ness campaigns	Num­ber of online meetings	2024 – 2029	To be developed
Young People and Out­door Learning
Pro­mote and man­age the use of the John Muir Award in the Nation­al Park to pro­mote and inspire young people	Num­ber of John Muir Awards delivered in schools and by out­door centres	Ongo­ing on annu­al basis	Cur­rently on hold until John Muir Trust decision on the future of the award, expec­ted to be made in mid-2025
Deliv­er Juni­or Ranger pro­grammes to six loc­al secondary	Six Juni­or Ranger schools	Ongo­ing on annu­al basis	256 Juni­or Rangers have taken part in 114 ses­sions through work with six

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
schools and monthly Juni­or Ranger activ­it­ies in Badenoch and Strath­spey and Deeside	pro­grammes delivered		loc­al sec­ond­ary schools and our monthly groups in Badenoch and Strath­spey and Deeside. 38 part­ners, includ­ing 17 Ranger ser­vices, have delivered a mix of prac­tic­al con­ser­va­tion, eco­lo­gic­al mon­it­or­ing, land man­age­ment, Scot­tish Out­door Access Code (SOAC) and cre­at­ive activ­it­ies. A group of 15 Juni­or Rangers jour­neyed through the heart of the Cairngorms over three days immers­ing them­selves in the nat­ur­al envir­on­ment and under­tak­ing con­ser­va­tion activities.
Deliv­er edu­ca­tion ses­sions for all schools in the Nation­al Park to pro­mote Scot­tish Out­door Access Code and out­door learning	Num­ber of ses­sions delivered to schools	Ongo­ing on annu­al basis	Ranger Team have delivered SOAC ses­sions to 292 pupils from Bal­later Primary, Aboyne Primary, Spey­side HS and Kin­gussie HS. Team have now set up pro­grammes to deliv­er SOAC ses­sions to all the S1s annu­ally at Kin­gussie and Spey­side High Schools. A teach­ers’ work­shop was also delivered at Web­sters HS (Kirriemuir) in part­ner­ship with NatureScot. 15 teach­ers attended.

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
Col­lab­or­ate with oth­er pub­lic sec­tor part­ners to deliv­er and devel­op nation­al edu­ca­tion and skills- devel­op­ment programmes	Attend nation­al Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment Out­door Learn­ing meetings	Ongo­ing on annu­al basis	Staff attend­ing reg­u­lar Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment Out­door Learn­ing Group
Pro­mote and man­age the Cairngorms Nation­al Park edu­ca­tion travel grant which sup­ports school and oth­er edu­ca­tion groups to access the Park	Num­ber of travel grants awarded	Ongo­ing on annu­al basis	35 grants issued which break down into 10 x Sec­ond­ary Schools, 23 x primary schools, and two x ​‘oth­er’ (Grampi­an Soci­ety for the Blind and Badenoch & Strath­spey Men­tal Health Team).
Devel­op and facil­it­ate the Cairngorms Youth Action Team events programme	Deliv­er res­id­en­tials, youth volun­teer­ing days and admin­is­ter youth fund	Ongo­ing on annu­al basis	Cairngorms Youth Action Team (CYAT) have had reg­u­lar online meet­ings. Since August CYAT have com­pleted Round 4 of the Youth Loc­al Action Group (YLAG) fund: 13 pro­jects com­pleted for a total spend of £6,281.18. YLAG Round five has opened for new applic­a­tions. On 26 Octo­ber CYAT hos­ted one under 30s volun­teer event in Glen­liv­et. From 04 – 06 Octo­ber, they organ­ised and ran their own res­id­en­tial for the first time. This was a Devel­op­ment Week­end, in which new mem­bers bon­ded with old, they did adven­tur­ous activ­it­ies and made plans for their future. Fol­low­ing this

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Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
		week­end CYAT pro­duced a 21-page report, and we are work­ing on the next steps.
Sup­port con­tinu­ing youth col­lab­or­a­tion with oth­er nation­al parks, youth ini­ti­at­ives and events to share and cel­eb­rate best prac­tice, e.g. through EURO­PARC or Youth Par­lia­ment events	Par­ti­cip­ate in Nation­al Park UK (NPUK) and EURO­PARC youth devel­op­ment projects	Ongo­ing on annu­al basis	Staff involved in reg­u­lar NPUK Learn­ing and Engage­ment meetings.
Paths, trails and out­door access
Review and pub­lish an updated Core Paths Plan by end of 2026	Com­munity con­sulta­tion under­taken Plan published	Plan con­sulta­tion 2025/2026 Plan pub­lished 2026	Pro­ject plan­ning under way with Loc­al Access For­um con­sid­er­a­tion in Novem­ber 24 and inform­al con­sulta­tion phase to follow
Refresh the Cairngorms Loc­al Out­door Access For­um (LOAF) to ensure it plays an act­ive role in advising on all aspects of the Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan	New mem­bers recruited	2024 – 2025	LOAF group met in per­son for pro­ject vis­it in June, and two new mem­bers recruited to the group.
Devel­op more robust range of data- gath­er­ing tools as a basis for sup­port­ing vis­it­or man­age­ment and path invest­ment pri­or­it­ies including:
A stra­tegic review of mon­it­or­ing at indic­at­or sites (low­land paths,	Audit of coun­ters completed	2026 – 2027	To be developed

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Form­al Board Paper 5, Annex 1 22 Novem­ber 2024

Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh Page 17 of 18

Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
upland paths, trail- heads, core paths and Long Dis­tances Routes)
Use of people coun­ters and oth­er data gath­er­ing tech­no­lo­gies to meas­ure usage on key paths and car parks	Review of Act­ive X sys­tem and agreed way forward	2024 – 2025	To be developed
Pro­mote path net­works across the Park by:
Main­tain­ing a suite of com­munity path leaf­lets in paper and access­ible digit­al formats	All leaf­lets fea­ture path grad­ing Leaf­lets reviewed on five-yearly cycle	Review and update four leaf­lets 2024, four leaf­lets — 2025. Six leaf­lets — 2026 – 2028.	Strath­don leaf­let reviewed and pub­lished in col­lab­or­a­tion with loc­al path group. Review of Lag­gan and Dal­whin­nie leaf­lets star­ted likely to be com­pleted in Spring 2025
Sup­port­ing part­ners to deliv­er appro­pri­ate pub­lic­a­tions (e.g. Hill Tracks Leaflet)	Updated Hill Tracks Leaflet	2027 – 2028	To be developed
Ensure paths around com­munit­ies are well-sign­posted and way­marked with good com­munity map boards in every com­munity across the Nation­al Park	• Sign­post plan developed • Pro­gramme of sign replace­ments • Walk pan­els installed in communities	Spey­side way sign­posts — 2024 – 2025 Com­munity replace­ments 2025 – 2028	Install­a­tion of new way­mark­ing along Spey­side Way from Aviemore to Park bound­ary (bey­ond Crom­dale) under­way. Expec­ted to be com­pleted by end of 2024
Sup­port and expand the num­ber of com­munity path groups to deliv­er path pro­jects through	Com­munity path group train­ing event delivered	2026 – 2027	Under devel­op­ment

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Form­al Board Paper 5, Annex 1 22 Novem­ber 2024

Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh Page 18 of 18

Key meas­ur­able out­puts	Deliv­ery peri­od	Notes on 2024 delivery
fund­ing, train­ing and shar­ing best practice
Review the Upland Path Audit to identi­fy invest­ment pri­or­it­ies for the upland path net­work and devel­op innov­at­ive tech­niques to reduce upland path erosion	Revised upland path audit published	2025 – 2026	Under devel­op­ment
Expand the exist­ing ​‘Adopt a path’ scheme to pro­mote volun­teer-led approach to cov­er all upland paths in the Park	Increase from 47 upland paths to 50 upland paths	Ongo­ing	Under devel­op­ment