25/03/2022 - CNPA BdPaper 2Annex1 Budget

²⁰²²⁄₂₃ Trans­ition­al Plans: Janu­ary 2022 Sub­mis­sions Consolidated

Sum­mary of fin­an­cial and staff­ing proposals

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Form­al Board Paper 2 25^th March 2022

ANNEX 1: Fin­an­cial Proposals

Fin­an­cial Invest­ment Pro­pos­als (£000)	Deployed FTE	Total FTE
Nature & Climate
Nature & Climate	795	24.5
People
People	425	17.4
Place
Place	630	11.0
Cor­por­ate
Cor­por­ate	568	21.0
Com­mu­nic­a­tions
Com­mu­nic­a­tions	186	7.4
Total	2,604	81.3	81.3
Trans­ition­al Plan Provision
Trans­ition­al Plan Provision	2,092
Her­it­age Hori­zons Contribution	150
Vis­it­or Ser­vices Cap­it­al Prog	324
COV­ID Cor­por­ate Response	30
Total	2,596	81.79	81.79
Sur­plus (Over Programmed)	(8)	0.5	0.5

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NATURE AND CLIMATE

Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH / Cor­por­ate)	Budget Required (£000)	Staff Deployed FTE
Deliv­er­ing Net Zero by 2045	Under­take car­bon audit and estab­lish 2022 baseline	Annu­al pro­gress report on deliv­er­ing Net Zero	A1: reach net-zero asap
Wood­land expan­sion and enhancement	Wood­land chal­lenge fund	1,000ha new wood­land; improv­ing qual­ity of exist­ing nat­ive woodlands		55	1.20
Sus­tain­able upland management		1,000Ha	A2: Increase wood­land cov­er NPPP: A3 Restore & man­age peat­land; A4 reduce deer num­bers; A5 reduce intens­ity of gamebird man­age­ment; A6 muir­burn Her­it­age Hori­zons: peat­land, SLMP, Green Investment	105	6.30
	Peat­land restoration				1.90
	Deer man­age­ment	Sus­tain­able Land Man­age­ment Plans
	East Cairngorms Moor­land Partnership	Bet­ter under­stand­ing and demon­stra­tion of sus­tain­able upland management
	Sus­tain­able gamebird management
Nature Net­works	Sup­port­ing nature recov­ery projects	deliv­er­ing on ​‘call for sites’ from land man­agers and com­munity-led projects	NPPP: A7 farm C & bio plans; A9 river res­tor­a­tion; A10 eco­lo­gic­al net­work; A11% land man­aged for res­tor­a­tion; A13 des­ig­nated sites con­trib­ute to net­work and res­tor­a­tion HH: Future farm­ing, cli­mate resi­li­ent catchments	150	4.50
	Nature friendly farming			180
	Fresh­wa­ter restoration

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Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH / Cor­por­ate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
	Sur­vey­ing & Mapping	stra­tegic map­ping of hab­it­at and spe­cies cor­ridors and connectivity
	Upland scrub/​moor­land fringe
	Ripari­an corridors
Spe­cies con­ser­va­tion: CNAP pri­or­ity species	Cairngorms Caper­cail­lie Project	pro­gress along the Spe­cies Recov­ery Curve	A14: pro­tect & enhance rare and vul­ner­able species	155	4.30
	Cairngorms wild­cat project				1.90
	Rap­tor project
	Deliv­er­ing the CNAP spe­cies plans
Cairngorms Nature com­mu­nic­tions and engagement	CN BIG weekend	Raised pro­file, aware­ness and under­stand­ing of con­ser­va­tion work in the Park; more involve­ment and sup­port for con­ser­va­tion activities	CNAP: Involving people	35	1.00
Land­scape	Engage­ment pathways
	Com­mu­nic­a­tions
	Land­scape toolkit, SLQ mon­it­or­ing, atti­tudes and per­cep­tions surveys/​work­shops	bet­ter under­stand­ing of spe­cial land­scape qual­it­ies and per­cep­tions of change	NPPP	20	1.2
	Case­work	advice to applic­ants and plan­ning team
Cairngorms Nature Index & Bio­lo­gic­al data management	CNI, Atlas, sup­port cit­izen sci­ence and bio­lo­gic­al recorders	good inform­a­tion and data avail­able to guide long term conservation	A12: CNI	75	1.2

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Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH / Cor­por­ate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Landown­er liais­on and coordination	Region­al Land Use Partnership/​Frame­work, wild­fire groups, Farm­ers Forum	Wild­li­fire plan(s)	A8: Region­al Land Use Part­ner­ship & Framework	20	1
Cor­por­ate func­tions & organ­isa­tion­al development
				795	24.50

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PEOPLE

Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH / Cor­por­ate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Devel­op a Well­being Economy	Devel­op a well-being eco­nomy Corner­stone Indic­at­ors and Action Plan; Sup­port for business	A plan and a suite of well-being eco­nomy indic­at­ors; No. of sup­por­ted recov­er­ing busi­nesses mak­ing trans­ition. Ment­or­ing scheme	NPPP B1 B2 B3 and C11; HH People Projects	50	0.5
Skills, train­ing and wages	Audit and plan to pro­mote Liv­ing Wage; Skills ini­ti­at­ive in place re. green jobs and hospitality	Audit of wages; Plan in place for skill development	NPPP B4 and B5; HH People Projects	20	0.3
Pro­mote com­munity-led devel­op­ment and man­age­ment of land /​assets	Renew Com­munity Action Plan­ning pro­cess with Loc­al Place Plan­ning; Replace pre­vi­ous EU-sourced LEAD­ER and struc­tur­al funds; Sup­port for com­munity devel­op­ment pro­jects; Com­munity man­aged grant scheme	Refreshed set of Com­munity Action Plans. Plus HH pro­ject targets	NPPP B6, B7, B8, B9; HH People Projects	90	0.3
Com­munity learn­ing, par­ti­cip­a­tion and engagement	Cli­mate Con­scious Com­munit­ies; Cit­izen assembly/​Juries; Cli­mate learn­ing and edu­ca­tion; Out­reach and engage­ment; Com­munity Grant scheme	HH Pro­ject Targets	NPPP B6 and B7; HH	0	0.5

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Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH / Cor­por­ate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Act­ive Cairngorms	Devel­op Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan; Run Health Walks Pro­gramme; Pub­lic Health and out­doors; Demen­tia Activ­ity Resource Centre	HH Pro­ject Tar­gets; Men­tal health met­rics; Activ­ity levels of least act­ive have increased	NPPP B11; HH People Projects	0	0.30
Ranger Ser­vices	Man­age CNPA Ranger Ser­vice & sup­port & grant aid the fam­ily of Cairngorms Rangers	CNPA Rangers engage with 12,000 vis­it­ors; 13 part­ner ser­vices in place and provid­ing con­sist­ent mon­it­or­ing & messaging	NPPP/​Corp	165	12.40
Volun­teer­ing & Inclusion	Man­age Volun­teer Cairngorms and Vol. and Juni­or Rangers, sup­port Health Walks and John Muir Awards; Cairngorms Youth Action Team & pro­mote inclusion	8 new volun­teer rangers trained with 1000 volun­teer days delivered; 1,000 JMA’s sup­por­ted & 25 Juni­or Rangers trained	NPPP B13;	95	2.10
Respons­ible Out­door Access	Man­age & sup­port CLOAF, pro­mote respons­ible out­door access	Three CLOAF meet­ings; out­door access duties	NPPP/​Corp	5	1.00
TOTALS				425.00	17.40

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PLACE

Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH / Cor­por­ate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Action Plan	Devel­op new TAP to pro­mote off-peak growth and spread vis­it­ors; invest­ing in vis­it­or man­age­ment pro­jects; invest­ing in cultural/​inter­pret­a­tion projects	Euro­parc val­id­a­tion vis­it and Charter awarded	NPPP C1 and C2 and C7	25	0.7
Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Action Plan	Digit­al Inform­a­tion for vis­it­or management	On line access to digit­al vis­it­or inform­a­tion; digitial ranger inform­a­tion provision		75
Places for Every­one Programme	With Sus­trans, sup­port part­ners devel­op­ing act­ive travel. HH Act­ive travel projects.	Com­plete Stra­tegic Net­work Study. Com­plete stages 1 and 2 for 9 com­munity neigh­bour­hoods plus Act­ive Aviemore	NPPP C3 and C4; HH Place Projects	0	0
Stra­tegic Vis­it­or Infra­struc­ture Improve­ment Programme	Devel­op Stra­tegic Infra­struc­ture Plan; Sup­port part­ners to improve vis­it­or infra­struc­ture; Devel­op sys­tems to mon­it­or and main­tain key infrastructure	Plan sub­mit­ted to Vis­itScot­land; 6 key pro­jects delivered; Grant to OATS	NPPP C5 and C6	350	0.5
Path main­ten­ance and improvement	Main­tain and improve Spey­side Way, moun­tain paths and sup­port core path maintenance	Infra­struc­ture Plan agreed; Spey­side Way Exten­sion form­ally opened	NPPP C4	140	0.50
Cairngorm & Glen­more Pri­or­ity Area	Deliv­er C and G Strategy; HH Glen­more Trans­port Plan	Loch­side park­ing com­plete, pub­lic toi­lets replaced, IoT installed & working	NPPP; HH Place Projects	20	0.3

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Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH / Cor­por­ate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Improve avail­ab­il­ity of hous­ing for work­ers in the NP	Invest­ig­ate future land options for deliv­ery of afford­able and tar­geted hous­ing; Sup­port com­munity-led hous­ing group and pro­jects; Use new tools for con­trol of second homes	Reduc­tion in second homes, vacant or short-term let prop­er­ties; Per­cent­age of develop­able land in com­munity or pub­lic body own­er­ship is increasing.	NPPP C8, C9, C10	10	2.5
Deliv­er an effi­cient Plan­ning Service	Deliv­ery & Mon­it­or­ing of LDP; Devel­op­ment Man­age­ment, Enforce­ment, reviewed advice and train­ing for customers	Improve­ment pri­or­it­ies delivered; Mon­it­or­ing Report	NPPP B1 and B2; Corp	0	6
Deliv­er­ing Net Zero by 2045	Under­take car­bon audit and estab­lish 2022 baseline; Deliv­er and mon­it­or NPPP	Annu­al pro­gress report on deliv­er­ing Net Zero; Park Part­ner­ship Plan approved	NPPP	10	0.50
Totals				630.00	11.00

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COR­POR­ATE

Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH/​Corporate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Nation­al col­lab­or­a­tion height­en­ing pos­it­ive aware­ness of nation­al park	Nation­al Park Part­ner­ships (NPP) Joint Com­mu­nic­a­tions and Fun­drais­ing activ­it­ies supported	Pos­it­ive com­mu­nic­a­tions gains through UK wide col­lab­or­a­tion / non-core fund­ing raised	Cor­por­ate	21	0.05
Com­munity Grant Scheme / Com­munity Led Loc­al Devel­op­ment Redesign	Devel­op ideas around future of com­munity grant schemes and integ­rate with com­munity par­ti­cip­a­tion through Cit­izens Assemblies	HH Com­munity Grant Pro­ject developed to Deliv­ery Stage end point B8	HH Pro­ject 3c / NPPP	0	1.20
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Sup­port­ing effect­ive staff con­sulta­tion includ­ing any action on Fair Work policy	Effect­ive staff engage­ment in organ­isa­tion­al change processes	Cor­por­ate	0	0.30
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Staff sur­vey eval­u­ation / Organ­isa­tion­al COV­ID response actions / Work­force man­age­ment and organ­isa­tion­al devel­op­ment activity	Organ­isa­tion­al Devel­op­ment Strategy to under­pin for­ward Cor­por­ate Plan 2023⁄27	Cor­por­ate	30	2.50
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Board dir­ect elections	Suc­cess­ful dir­ect com­munity elec­tions to board	Cor­por­ate	40	0.20
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Equal­it­ies Train­ing for staff and Board and Sup­port­ing on-site event for EAP	Effect­ive staff engage­ment and under­pin­ning ODS4/​culture change	Cor­por­ate	15	0.30
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organ­isa­tion — exem­plar with regards cli­mate change	Provid­ing infra­struc­ture to sup­port Act­ive Travel for staff and partners	Deliv­er­ing net Zero	Cor­por­ate and NPPP	30	1.00

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Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH/​Corporate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Shared ser­vices delivered through LLT­NPA cov­er­ing IT, Pro­cure­ment and GIS	Effect­ive, effi­cient IT, pro­cure­ment and GIS ser­vice provision	Cor­por­ate	152	0.10
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Deliv­er­ing Her­it­age Hori­zons and wider Pro­gramme and Pro­ject man­age­ment across the organisation	Effect­ive pro­ject man­age­ment sys­tems are in place sup­port­ing deliv­ery of pro­ject out­comes across the organisation	Cor­por­ate / HH all activ­it­ies / NPPP all activities	150	3.00
	Sup­port­ing com­munity led devel­op­ment of vol­un­tary giv­ing scheme and char­it­able invest­ment in infra­struc­ture and nature	Increased vol­un­tary dona­tions for nature con­ser­va­tion and access infrastructure			0.40
Robust and secure IT and data infrastructure	Deliv­er­ing IT infra­struc­ture to meet IT Strategy and Organ­isa­tion­al Devel­op­ment Strategy Objectives	Robust, secure IT ser­vices sup­port­ing effect­ive dis­persed work­ing and hybrid office working	Cor­por­ate	50	3.30
Robust and secure IT and data infrastructure	Estab­lising data man­age­ment, inform­a­tion secur­ity and cus­tom­er rela­tion­ship inform­a­tion pro­to­cols to sup­port new work­ing meth­ods and changes in IT infrastructure	Clear data man­age­ment and secur­ity prin­ciples in place and deployed by all staff provid­ing robust open access to records and data	Cor­por­ate	20	1.20

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Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH/​Corporate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Deliv­er­ing effect­ive gov­ernance sup­port and advice across the organisation	Effect­ive sup­port to and oper­a­tion of boards and com­mit­tees; clar­ity of under­stand­ing of gov­ernance roles and responsibilities	Cor­por­ate	10	1.80
	Facil­it­ies main­ten­ance and improve­ments, includ­ing enhance­ment to sup­port increased act­ive travel by staff in their com­mute to office	Facil­it­ies in place to suport act­ive travel to offices	Cor­por­ate	50	1.10
Open, inclus­ive, innov­at­ive, pro­fes­sion­al organisation	Deliv­er­ing high qual­ity fin­ance and admin­stra­tion sup­port ser­vices across the organ­isa­tion; to shared ser­vices cli­ents and to com­munity led organisations	Effect­ive sup­port in deliv­ery of all stra­tegic tar­gets; achieve fin­an­cial results	Cor­por­ate		4.50
TOTALS				568.00	20.95

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COMMS

Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH/​Corporate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
Organ­isa­tion­al man­age­ment and team leadership		Team deliv­er against cor­por­ate plan tar­gets and team mor­ale is positive	NPPP / HH / Corporate		0.4
Raise aware­ness of, and sup­port for, the work of CNPA and its partners	Pro­act­ively pro­mote CNP / CNPA via loc­al, nation­al and inter­na­tion­al media and respond to ad hoc enquiries	Range of pos­it­ive news cov­er­age across a vari­ety of print, online and broad­cast channels	NPPP / HH / Corporate	7.5	0.8
	Fully scope and begin devel­op­ment of a new CNP / CNPA website(s), while main­tain­ing exist­ing platforms	Detailed tender doc pro­duced for new website(s) tied dir­ectly to core user journeys	NPPP / HH / Corporate	50	1.4
	Build a com­munity of act­ive sup­port­ers through enga­ging con­tent on our social media channels	Deepened engage­ment of key audi­ences, with con­tent clearly delin­eated between channels	NPPP / HH / Corporate	9	1.2
	Pro­duce a range of cor­por­ate pub­lic­a­tions, inter­pret­a­tion and sig­nage to pro­mote key pro­jects / activ­it­ies (incl. NPPP4 / HH)	Pub­lic­a­tions pro­duced to a con­sist­ently high stand­ard on time and on budget	NPPP / HH / Corporate	60	0.8
	Review the exist­ing CNP / CNPA brand frame­work and pro­duce a range of easy-to-use, fully access­ible resources	Revised brand guidelines doc­u­ment plus com­pre­hens­ive suite of tem­plates produced	Cor­por­ate	5	0.3
Devel­op and deliv­er a com­pre­hens­ive stake­hold­er engage­ment programme	Con­duct a thor­ough ana­lys­is of key audi­ences and use insights from this to inform all comms activity	Series of pen por­traits for each audi­ence which under­pins year-round comms grid activity	NPPP / HH / Corporate		0.4
	Work with part­ners to encour­age respons­ible vis­it­or beha­viour, includ­ing vis­it­ing out of sea­son and length­en­ing their stay	Reduc­tion in incid­ents of poor vis­it­or beha­viour; long-term trend of vis­it­a­tion out­side core sum­mer months	NPPP		0.5
	Devel­op, rol­lout and eval­u­ate a series of stake­hold­er engage­ment events / oppor­tun­it­ies tailored to key audiences	Enga­ging pro­gramme of events / oppor­tun­it­ies developed; key audi­ences more informed about our activities	NPPP / HH / Corporate	20	0.4

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Stra­tegic Object­ive	Work Pack­age / Key Actions	Out­come / Tar­get	Stra­tegic Link (NPPP / HH/​Corporate)	Budget Required	Staff Deployed
	Devel­op a stake­hold­er engage­ment pro­gramme for Her­it­age Hori­zons and pro­mote it effect­ively with stakeholders	Engage­ment pro­gramme delivered; key audi­ences more informed about our activities	HH	9.5	0.4
Ensure all CNP / CNPA comms out­puts are fully access­ible and reach as broad a range of audi­ences as possible	Ensure our web­sites meet the strict­est cri­ter­ia for web con­tent accessibility	Aim to achieve WCAG 2.0 AAA status, with a min­im­um of AA by the end of the year	NPPP / HH / Corporate	10	0.2
	Work with part­ners to deliv­er comms cam­paigns that sup­port and engage with under-rep­res­en­ted groups in the Park	Great­er engage­ment and par­ti­cip­a­tion from under-rep­res­en­ted groups	NPPP / HH / Corporate	10	0.2
	Provide advice, train­ing and guid­ance to staff on pro­du­cing access­ible and inclus­ive mater­i­als / content	Range of prac­tic­al ​‘how to’ guides and train­ing ses­sions delivered; staff feel more informed / equipped	NPPP / HH / Corporate		0.2
	Deliv­er a new five-year Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan that provides increased oppor­tun­it­ies for indi­vidu­als and com­munit­ies to engage with the language	New Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan draf­ted, con­sul­ted on and signed off by BNG; key activ­it­ies delivered; more people engage with language	NPPP	5	0.1
Keep staff / board fully informed and engaged through high qual­ity intern­al comms	Work with HR and Cor­por­ate Ser­vices to com­mu­nic­ate effect­ively with staff, board, volun­teers etc, keep­ing them up to date with all the latest developments	Staff, board, volun­teers etc feel more informed and able to talk about work across CNP / CNPA	Cor­por­ate		0.1
TOTALS				186	7.4