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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper 5 Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh 13 Decem­ber 2024 Page 1 of 3

For inform­a­tion Title: Com­mit­tee Annu­al Reports Pre­pared by: Mari­aan Pita, Exec­ut­ive Sup­port Manager

Pur­pose

1. This paper presents the draft Annu­al Report of the Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee to mem­bers for com­ment pri­or to cir­cu­la­tion to the full board.

Recom­mend­a­tions

1. The Com­mit­tee is asked to: a) Con­sider the draft annu­al report of the Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee. b) Agree any amend­ments to the draft pri­or to cir­cu­la­tion to the full board.

Back­ground

1. In line with intern­al audit recom­mend­a­tions and as an ele­ment of the remit of the Com­mit­tees, each Com­mit­tee sub­mits an annu­al report cov­er­ing its activ­it­ies and reflect­ing on its oper­a­tions over the course of the last year to the full board. This paper presents the report for the Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee which has now com­pleted the annu­al cycle.

Cairngorms Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Paper 5 Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh 13 Decem­ber 2024 Page 2 of 3

Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee Annu­al Report to Board for Peri­od Octo­ber 2023 to Octo­ber 2024

Activ­ity in period

1. The Com­mit­tee met four times up to and includ­ing the meet­ing of 20 Septem­ber 2024 in the peri­od covered by this report.

2. The Com­mit­tee has sought assur­ance over the per­form­ance of the fol­low­ing pro­grammes and major pro­jects where the Park Author­ity is either lead deliv­ery body, or holds sig­ni­fic­ant respons­ib­il­ity as a lead applic­ant and / or account­able body for fund­ing deployed: a) Cairngorms 2030 includ­ing updates by theme leads. b) Cairngorms Beaver Pro­ject. c) Cairngorms Caper­cail­lie Pro­ject. d) Cairngorms Com­munity Led Loc­al Devel­op­ment (CLLD) and Cairngorms Trust deliv­ery. e) For­ward look­ing at sched­ule of com­mit­tee items. f) Deliv­ery of stat­utory duties as con­ferred by the Land Reform (Scot­land) Act 2003. g) Cairngorm and Glen­more Strategy. h) Cairngorms Peat­land ACTION Programme.

Review of Activ­it­ies and Commentary

1. Key areas of the Park Author­ity man­aged and part­ner led activ­it­ies have been iden­ti­fied for report­ing with a tem­plate report­ing struc­ture final­ised and main­tained over the course of the peri­od. Use of exist­ing reports sub­mit­ted to pro­ject boards and oth­er struc­tures has been max­im­ised to min­im­ise addi­tion­al report­ing bur­dens on staff.

2. The cur­rent mem­ber­ship of the Com­mit­tee has been estab­lished. This annu­al report is more a fac­tu­al record of the activ­it­ies of the Com­mit­tee over the peri­od, rather than a qual­it­at­ive eval­u­ation of the work of the Committee.

3. There have been no instances of need for escal­a­tion of con­cerns to the full board, while some minor mat­ters have been made known to oth­er com­mit­tees to enhance coordin­ated assur­ance over organ­isa­tion­al per­form­ance. Gen­er­ally, per­form­ance reports have been pos­it­ive. Activ­ity on sig­ni­fic­ant pro­grammes and pro­jects has

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gen­er­ally secured agreed object­ives with minor devi­ations noted, as has been more fully rep­res­en­ted in cor­por­ate per­form­ance report­ing to the full board.

1. The Com­mit­tee has agreed a planned scope of activ­ity for the com­ing year, cov­er­ing the fol­low­ing areas of the Park Authority’s activ­it­ies: a) Cairngorms 2030 – with quarterly updates from theme leads delving deep­er into their pro­jects for a bet­ter under­stand­ing. b) Peat­land res­tor­a­tion pro­gramme. c) Com­munity Led Loc­al Devel­op­ment and Cairngorms Trust. d) Cairngorms Beaver pro­ject. e) Deer man­age­ment / ven­ison sub­sidy scheme. f) Oth­er one-off reports on key pro­ject activ­it­ies as iden­ti­fied by mem­bers from time to time.

Con­clu­sions

1. The Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee has oper­ated over the peri­od to provide the ele­ments of gov­ernance and assur­ance sys­tems as set out in the terms of ref­er­ence for board committees.

2. Cur­rent mem­bers believe they have a clear focus for the year ahead and have scoped the for­ward agenda for the Com­mit­tee accordingly.

3. The Committee’s mem­bers have expressed their grat­it­ude for the sup­port of officers provided over the year; for full and clear papers; and for effect­ive, help­ful engage­ment at meetings.

Mari­aan Pita 26 Novem­ber 2024 mariaanpita@​cairngorms.​co.​uk