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Cairngorms Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper 1, Annex 2 Nation­al Park Author­ity Ùgh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh 13 Decem­ber 2024

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Paper 1

Annex 2

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
  2. Glen Fend­er; fen­cing; Phase 1 plant­ing; Phase 2 ground prep & plant­ing 31/12/2024 31/12/2024
  3. Dal­namein; Phase 1 fen­cing & ground prep; Phase 2 fen­cing & ground prep 31/12/2024 31/12/2024
  4. Aspen; engage Trees for Life to do Cairngorms Aspen Net­work devel­op­ment; 30/06/2025 30/06/2025 com­plete a frame­work and spa­tial plan for Cairngorms Aspen network
  5. Mont­ane; com­plete nature net­works oppor­tun­ity map­ping; assess suit­ab­il­ity of 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 Glen­shee scheme; devel­op pre­ferred scheme
  6. Ripari­an; com­plete nature net­works oppor­tun­ity map­ping; devel­op pre­ferred 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 scheme
  7. Peat­land res­tor­a­tion Devel­op­ment phase — in pro­gress (16 pro­jects, Jan 24-Jun 24) 13 12 1 Devel­op­ment phase — com­plete (16 pro­jects, Jan 24-Jun 24) 1 1 Deliv­ery phase — in pro­gress (16 pro­jects, March 24 — March 25) 3 2 2 Deliv­ery phase — com­plete (16 pro­jects, March 24 — March 25) 8 0 0 Close­down & com­ple­tion in pro­gress (16 pro­jects, June 24 – March 25) 0 0 0 Close­down & com­ple­tion com­plete (16 pro­jects, June 24 – March 25) 0 0 0 4
  8. Nature recov­ery Com­munity Agri Dam­age (WGDMG): 1.1 Devel­op Grant t’s and c’s, agree and sign May 2024 Aug-24 Com­plete 1.2 Con­firm lar­der specs, place order for 2 lar­ders June 2024 Aug-24 Com­plete 1.3 Lar­der ground works, deliv­ery, install­a­tion Sept 2024 Oct-24 Nov-24 1.4 Begin cull, pro­cess ven­ison, deliv­er to foodbanks/​charities Dec 2024 Dec-24 Dec-24 C2030 Mon­it­or Estate: 2.1 Devel­op and agree Expres­sion of Interest (Eol), cir­cu­late to CNP landown­ers May 2024 Dec-24 Dec-24 2.2 Identi­fy projects/​activities/​budgets with landowner(s) and agree imple­ment­a­tion June 2024 Sep-24 Mar-25 sched­ule 2.3 Devel­op matched fund­ing and oper­a­tion­al mod­el with part­ner landowner(s) Sept 2024 Sep-24 Mar-25 South Deeside North Angus DMG: 3.1 Con­firm riparian/​catchment pro­jects with SDNA mem­bers May 2024 Sep-24 Dec-24 3.2 Con­firm Glen­muick ripari­an pro­ject, man­age bid­ding pro­ced­ure, agree start date Sept 2024 Sep-24 Dec-24 West Grampi­an DMG: 4.1 Con­firm deliv­ery phase organ­isa­tion­al struc­ture with WGDMG Steer­ing Group May 2024 Aug-24 Oct-24 4.2 Con­firm cli­mate mit­ig­a­tion and biod­iversity pro­jects with WGDMG mem­bers, June 2024 Com­plete identi­fy sup­port­ing activ­it­ies and alloc­ate budget 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
  9. 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 28/11/2024 Farm­ers car­ried out at least 1 option 30/07/2025 30/07/2025 30/07/2025
  10. Cli­mate resi­li­ent catch­ments Upper Dee Pre-plan­ning engage­ment com­plete May 2024 Com­plete PoAN sub­mit­ted May 2024 July 2024 Com­plete Major plan­ning app sub­mit­ted August 2024 Oct 2024 Nov 2024 Plan­ning per­mis­sion received Nov 2024 Jan 2025 Mar 2025 Slu­gain Bridge pro­cure­ment approach agreed with High­land Coun­cil April 2024 Com­plete Design con­sult­ant appoin­ted June 2024 July 2024 Jan 2025 Plan­ning app stage 1 sub­mit­ted Sept 2024 Aug 2024 Aug 2025 Dalghety Buy-out or altern­at­ive pro­cess agreed to take for­ward Nov 2024 Nov 2024 Nov 2024
  11. Green Fin­ance and com­munity wealth build­ing Pro­ject Ini­ti­ation Report Com­plete Devel­op Part­ner­ship agree­ments 29/3/2024 31/08/2024 Com­plete MoU agreed and signed Com­plete recruit­ment of GFO 20/6/2024 06/12/2024 06/12/2024 GFO appoint­ment made 3/5/2024 06/12/2024 06/12/2024 Devel­op pro­ject scope 31/7/2024 06/12/2024 28/03/2025
  12. Land­scape & com­munit­ies Estab­lish meth­od­o­logy 31/12/2027 31/12/2027 Estab­lish and main­tain links with com­munit­ies for engage­ment: Devel­op and 31/12/2024 31/12/2025 31/12/2025 estab­lish Cairngorms land­scape for­um, cham­pi­ons and/​or volun­teers Stage one com­munity engage­ment: online sur­vey: Online sur­vey devel­op­ment 30/09/2024 28/02/2025 28/02/2025 (includ­ing test­ing) Pro­vi­sion­al iden­ti­fic­a­tion, illus­tra­tion and map­ping of SLQs 31/12/2024 28/02/2025

Cairngorms 2030: Empower­ment Pro­ject / milestones

  1. Effect­ive Com­munity engage­ment 1. a. Estab­lish engage­ment team b. Train engage­ment team and C2030 staff Planned com­ple­tion as at end Q1 end Q2 end Q3 end Q4 30/06/2024 Com­plete 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 2. Devel­op work­ing prac­tices and engage­ment pro­cesses 3. Devel­op plan of engage­ment for the first year 31/08/2024 31/08/2024 Com­plete 30/09/2024 30/09/2024 Com­plete 4. Test and learn engage­ment mod­els a. Cit­izens assembly (or equi­val­ent form of par­ti­cip­at­ory demo­cracy) in pro­cess 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 b. Gami­fic­a­tion pro­ject estab­lished 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 30/05/2025 c. Research innov­at­ive meth­ods 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 5. Engage­ment work­ing group meet­ings estab­lished tbc 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 6. Devel­op engage­ment mater­i­als, work­ing closely with comms col­leagues 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 7. Estab­lish and deliv­er engage­ment activ­ity for year 1 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 8. Eval­u­ate, devel­op, refine year 1 reflec­tions 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 9. Volun­teer­ing — man­aged by Volun­teer­ing Man­agers 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024
  2. Map and build on rela­tion­ships 31/12/2024
  3. Cli­mate learn­ing & edu­ca­tion 1. School Engage­ment picked up with each part­ner school 2. Shared Learn­ing Event for School Staff before aca­dem­ic year end 3. James Ade induc­ted and work plan in place 4. Engage­ment Plat­form Oper­a­tion­al and being used by schools 5. Yr1 Activ­ity Plans in Place 31/03/2024 Com­plete 30/06/2024 Com­plete 30/06/2024 Com­plete 30/06/2024 Com­plete 30/06/2024 Com­plete 30/10/2024 30/10/2024 30/10/2024 6. Yr. 1 Activ­ity Plans under­way 7. Stor­ies of Change Yr. 1 iden­ti­fied 15/12/2024 11/11/2024 15/12/2024 15/12/2024 11/11/2024 11/11/2024
  4. LfS School Activ­ity Audit com­pleted and being updated regularly
  5. Cli­mate con­scious com­munit­ies 1. 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 31/05/2024 Com­plete 2. 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
  6. Bring togeth­er Cli­mate Hubs to share inform­a­tion and identi­fy where we can add value to Hub areas in the Park, includ­ing pan Park 4. Week 5. Sup­port­ing activ­it­ies and events tak­ing place across the Park dur­ing Cli­mate 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 6a. Final­ise activ­ity plan in col­lab­or­a­tion with Cli­mate hubs and oth­er organ­isa­tions across the Nation­al Park. 6b. Deliv­er activ­ity plan in col­lab­or­a­tion with Cli­mate hubs and oth­er organ­isa­tions across the Nation­al Park.
  7. Com­munity Arts & Cul­ture Col­lab­or­a­tion Work­shops com­pleted 1. 2. Yr. 1 Cre­at­ive Activ­ity Plan in place / approved 3. Yr. 1 Cre­at­ive Activ­ity Plan Launched 4. Yr. 1 Res­id­ency com­pleted, and report approved
  8. Com­munity man­aged cli­mate grants 31/05/2024 01/11/2024 01/12/2024 Com­plete 30/09/2024 30/09/2024 Com­plete 30/09/2024 30/12/2024 30/12/2024 29/11/2024 30/06/2025 15/09/2024 15/09/2024 Com­plete 16/10/2024 16/10/2024 16/10/2024 30/11/2024 30/11/2024 30/11/2024 20/03/2025 20/03/2025 20/03/2025
  9. Employ Cli­mate Grants Officer 2. Induc­tion of Cli­mate Grants Officer & Admin Officer 3. Test & learn across Cli­mate Adapt­a­tion Fund — work with Com­munity Grants team to test sys­tems & pro­cesses. Fund set up by August 2024 4. 5. gaps 6. Engage­ment and workup Decision mak­ing pro­cess Out­puts and shar­ing Con­tin­ue work with Social Value Engine & make recom­mend­a­tions Research cur­rent cli­mate funds avail­able to com­munit­ies with­in CNP & identi­fy Look at scope of £50k fund for 2024⁄25, work with engage­ment team & make recom­mend­a­tions to C2030 pro­gramme 7. 8. Engage­ment and workup Decision mak­ing Out­puts and shar­ing Write work plan — will inform the rest of the mile­stones — to include: M&E frame­work Engage with Lived Exper­i­ence Group; les­sons learned for EDI grants alloc­a­tion. Pro­cess agreed by Decem­ber 2024. 31/03/2024 Com­plete 31/05/2024 Com­plete 31/08/2024 31/08/2024 ? Com­plete 30/04/2024 30/06/2024 31/12/2024 Com­plete 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 30/09/2024 30/09/2024 Com­plete 31/07/2024 31/07/2024 Com­plete 31/07/2024 31/07/2024 31/12/2024 30/09/2024 30/09/2024 ? 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2025 31/12/2025 31/12/2025 31/05/2024 (Com­plete) Com­plete 31/12/2024 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
  2. Identi­fy pre­ferred sup­pli­er for E bike char­gers 31/07/2024 31/07/2024 Complete
  3. Install 5 E‑Bike char­ging sta­tions 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/03/2025
  4. Pro­mo­tion­al cam­paign to raise aware­ness of the new E bike char­gers 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/03/2025
  5. Deliv­er Skills ses­sions to min­im­um 2 primary schools 30/06/2024 30/06/2024 Complete
  6. Meet with rel­ev­ant com­munit­ies to devel­op sup­port for com­munity led loan 31/10/2024 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 schemes
  7. Tri­al scheme to allow rangers to use cargo bikes in 2 loc­a­tions 30/09/2024 30/09/2024 31/03/2025
  8. Attend min­im­um 3 pub­lic events to raise aware­ness of pro­ject 31/10/2024 31/10/2024 Complete
  9. Pro­cure pre­ferred supplier/​s for deliv­ery of com­munity training/​skills 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 sessions
  10. Determ­ine loc­a­tion for two Com­munity led loan hubs 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024
  11. Act­ive Communities
  12. Recruit Sus­tain­able Trans­port Man­ager Complete
  13. Recruit Sus­tain­able Trans­port Officer Complete
  14. Recruit Gradu­ate Trans­port Officer Dec-24 Jun-25
  15. Pre­pare and Sub­mit fund­ing applic­a­tions for Aviemore + 5 oth­er Com­plete com­munit­ies. 5a. Secure con­struc­tion fund­ing grant offer for Dul­nain Bridge NMU Sep-24 5b. (To super­sede 5a). Final­ise han­dover of Dul­nain Bridge-Grant­own pro­ject Dec-25 from com­munity. Pre­pare ITT to final­ise tech­nic­al design, and stat­utory require­ments, includ­ing land trans­fer require­ments. 6a. Pre­pare ITT for design stages for PfE suc­cess­ful pro­jects Sep-24 6b. (To super­sede 6a). Pre­pare ITTs for three design pro­jects — Inver­druie to Jun-25 Coylumbridge, Act­ive Com­munit­ies Boat of Garten and Dul­nain Bridge, Dul­nain Bridge to Grantown.
  16. Pro­cure and appoint con­sult­ants (where fund­ing is secured) Mar-25 Mar-25
  17. Devel­op mon­it­or­ing baseline for indi­vidu­al pro­jects Mar-25 Mar-25
  18. Remainder to be defined once out­come of fund­ing bids is known Sep-24 (expec­ted April 24)
  19. Sus­tain­able travel P1 Per­sona devel­op­ment 30/08/2024 Detailed deliv­ery plan com­plete 31/12/2024 Per­so­nas V1.0 com­plete 26/07/2024 17/01/2025 17/01/2025 P2 DRT — Badenoch & Strath­spey Bus / DRT part­ner­ship estab­lished 14/06/2024 13/10/2024 01/12/2024 DRT act­ive in area 01/11/2024 31/12/2025 31/12/2025 P3 Com­munity Trans­port — Upper Deeside Pro­ject deliv­ery plan sign-off 05/07/2024 13/10/2024 P4 Data and digit­al infra­struc­ture Nation­al data­sets — baselin­ing com­plete 30/06/2025 30/06/2025 Bus pat­ron­age data — baselin­ing com­plete 30/06/2025 30/06/2025 P5 Glen­more Sus­tain­able Trans­port Plan Pro­ject re-ini­tial­isa­tion com­plete 12/07/2024 On hold On hold Pro­ject deliv­ery plan sign-off 16/08/2024 P6 Pub­lic Trans­port improve­ments Bikes on buses — bus con­ver­sion com­plete 01/10/2024 31/12/2024 Bal­later Mobil­ity Hub — con­sult­ant appoin­ted 01/12/2024 Bus stops — exist­ing infra­struc­ture mapped 01/10/2024 31/12/2024 Aviemore Adven­turer — oppor­tun­it­ies for improve­ment doc­u­mented 29/11/2024 01/10/2024 01/12/2024 Engage­ment complete
  20. Chan­ging travel behaviour
  21. Recruit Sus­tain­able Trans­port Man­ager Complete
  22. Recruit Sus­tain­able Travel Beha­viours Officer Complete
  23. Oppor­tun­it­ies for col­lab­or­a­tion found and pos­it­ive rela­tion­ships built with part­ner 31/12/2024 organisations
  24. Detailed pro­ject plan­ning com­plete 31/12/2024
  25. Deliv­ery of con­fid­ence build­ing activ­it­ies under­way 30/09/2024 Complete
  26. 5 events atten­ded 31/12/2024
  27. Ini­ti­at­ives to over­come bar­ri­ers iden­ti­fied 31/12/2024
  28. Pro­mo­tion deliv­ery under­way 31/12/2024
  29. Sig­nage and way­find­ing audit com­plete 31/12/2024
  30. Sig­nage and way­find­ing improve­ments under­way 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 30/09/2024 30/09/2024 22/11/2024 Track Indic­at­ors through C2030 pro­jects — estab­lish actu­al baselines with key 30/06/2024 Com­plete pro­jects dur­ing Q2. Devel­op resources — devel­op 2 case stud­ies for WE in year 1 31/12/2024 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 Engage­ment activ­ity 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 Annu­al mon­it­or­ing check on WE Indic­at­ors, and ME work on WE with­in C2030, and 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 wider WEAP
  2. Pub­lic health & the outdoors
  3. Pro­mote Green Health Week and use feed­back to identi­fy groups and 30/11/2024 Com­plete oppor­tun­it­ies that sup­port the project
  4. Devel­op resources for Nature Pre­scrip­tion pro­gramme (includ­ing a wel­come 30/09/2024 30/10/2024 18/12/2024 pack and indoor activ­ity kit).
  5. Com­plete devel­op­ment of an appro­pri­ate pro­gramme of train­ing for activ­ity 30/09/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 pro­viders and loc­al organ­isa­tions, and com­mence deliv­ery (future dates tbc)
  6. Estab­lish yearly aver­age patient con­tact capa­city pat­terns to inform ongo­ing 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 16/12/2024 plan­ning and delivery
  7. Roll out pro­vider agree­ment for cur­rently engaged rel­ev­ant organ­isa­tions across 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 Badenoch and Strathspey
  8. Risk Man­age­ment pro­ced­ures are developed and signed-off. 30/12/2024 Complete
  9. Devel­op pro­mo­tion­al mater­i­als for Nature Pre­scrip­tion Pro­gramme 31/12/2024
  10. Out­door demen­tia resource centre Out­put 1. The monthly pro­gram of activ­it­ies will con­tin­ue to devel­op 29/05/2026 29/05/2026 29/05/2026 Out­put 2A: Explore the pos­sib­il­ity of cre­at­ing a net­work of demen­tia friendly paths at 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 Bad­aguish. Out­put 2B: Explore the pos­sib­il­ity of obtain­ing more adapt­ive bikes for our 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 31/03/2025 par­ti­cipants to use. Out­put 2C: The ODRC build­ing will be a more demen­tia friendly envir­on­ment Com­plete Out­put 2D: A Green Health Refer­ral path­way for people with demen­tia will be 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 31/12/2024 estab­lished locally

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 15/04/2024 Com­plete Appoint and induct Know­ledge Exchange Co-ordin­at­or 13/05/2024 Com­plete Appoint and induct PhD stu­dent 30/09/2024 30/09/2024 Com­plete M&E frame­work in place 11/06/2024 02/10/2024 29/11/2024 M&E ini­tial review with con­sult­ants 01/08/2024 27/09/2024 Com­plete Mon­it­or­ing plans for all pro­jects 02/08/2024 30/08/2024 29/11/2024 KE web­site 28/03/2025 29/07/2025 29/7/2025 Data review for year 1 24/01/2025 24/01/2025 24/01/2025 Pro­gramme tasks Recruit­ment 14/06/2024 Com­plete Pro­gramme shar­ing — team day 23/04/2024 Com­plete Quarterly report­ing sys­tem 15/03/2024 Com­plete Budget report­ing sys­tem 29/03/2024 Com­plete Risk report­ing sys­tem 29/03/2024 28/06/2024 Com­plete Pro­gramme team review for year 1 20/12/2024 20/12/2024 20/12/2024
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