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Board Members Register of Interest

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh

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Register of Interests of Board Members

Revised: 12 August 2025

Sandy Brem­ner Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • None Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • None Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Trust­ee and Dir­ect­or — The River Dee Trust
  • Mem­ber — Moun­tain­eer­ing Scotland
  • Mem­ber — Aber­deen and Shire Hill­walk­ing Club
  • Mem­ber — the Inter­na­tion­al Press Institute
  • Mem­ber — St Andrew’s Soci­ety of Aberdeen
  • Mem­ber — Meso­lith­ic Deeside
  • Mem­ber — The Bail­lies of Bennachie
  • Save the Spring Pro­gramme — Steer­ing group mem­ber of pro­gramme involving the River Dee Trust, Dee Dis­trict Sal­mon Fish­ery Board and Atlantic Sal­mon Trust.
  • Chief­tain, Aber­nethy High­land Games 2025 Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Elean­or Mack­in­tosh Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Hus­band and Son, Robert Mack­in­tosh and Alistair Mack­in­tosh, farm in part­ner­ship at Tombreck­ach­ie Farm, Glen­liv­et. Help with farm but receive no remu­ner­a­tion. Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Sole own­er of 64 and 66 Fife Street, Dufftown Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hos­pit­al­ity None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Com­mit­tee mem­ber – Glen­liv­et and Inveravon Com­munity Association
  • Elec­ted Mem­ber – Brit­ish Wool and Mar­ket­ing Board, North­ern Committee
  • Mem­ber — Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Devel­op­ment Trust Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Geva Black­ett Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Coun­cil­lor, Ward 15 Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil Area Chair, Marr
  • Hus­band owns and runs Yel­low Welly Tours
  • Small joint income from Short Term Let Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Occu­pi­er and bene­fi­ciary of fam­ily trust owned Bal­nel­lan House, Braemar
  • Part own­er of 7 Can­more Road, Brae­mar, cur­rently a Short Term Let Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • Invited by the Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship to attend events: i. £2,000 air­fares, £175 Visa Costs and oth­er related costs amount­ing to less than £50 in total paid by the Park Author­ity for attend­ance at Inter­na­tion­al Moun­tain Tour­ism Alli­ance Guizhou Province, China from 11 – 16 Octo­ber 2018. ii. Hos­pit­al­ity includ­ing accom­mod­a­tion and meals provided by Sec­ret­ari­at of Inter­na­tion­al Moun­tain Tour­ism Alli­ance dur­ing vis­it to Guizhou Province, China 11 – 16 Octo­ber 2018 estim­ated at £700. All cost was covered by Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Mem­ber — Brae­mar Com­munity Ltd
  • Mem­ber — Keep Care in our Communities
  • Mem­ber­ship of Brae­mar Tour­ism Group
  • Mem­ber of the Cairngorms Busi­ness Partnership
  • Mem­ber of Keep Care in Our Communities
  • Applicant/​Proposed Trust­ee of the Deeside Com­munity Game Lar­der Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • Hus­band is Chair of Marr Area Partnership
  • Hus­band is Chair of Brae­mar Com­munity Ltd.

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Jack­ie Brier­ton Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Self-employ­ment — con­sultancy fees
  • State pen­sion
  • Private pen­sion Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • I am con­trac­ted to an organ­isa­tion (Grow­Biz Scot­land) which has an annu­al enter­prise sup­port agree­ment with the Park Author­ity. I am not involved in the deliv­ery or mon­it­or­ing of this con­tract. Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • None Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Secur­it­ies None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Chair, Loc­al Employ­ab­il­ity Part­ner­ship (Perth and Kinross)
  • Co-Chair, Perth and Kinross Busi­ness Part­ner­ship Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Peter Cos­grove Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Man­aging Dir­ect­or of Alba Eco­logy Ltd. An eco­lo­gic­al con­sultancy based in Grantown-on-Spey.
  • Part time, occa­sion­al over­seas wild­life guide, Heath­er­lea. A wild­life tour­ism busi­ness based in Nethy Bridge. Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • In my role as an eco­lo­gic­al sur­vey­or, advisor and con­sult­ant with Alba Eco­logy Ltd., I have on occa­sion worked pre­vi­ously with and for the Park Author­ity. I cur­rently do not have any paid / con­trac­tu­al work rela­tion­ship with the Park Author­ity. Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Part own (with my part­ner Ms Jacklyn Far­quhar) a house in Grant­own-on- Spey. Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Secur­it­ies None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • None Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • My part­ner is Ms Jacklyn (Jack­ie) Far­quhar, who cur­rently works at the Park Author­ity as a Rur­al Devel­op­ment Officer. We have a son togeth­er, Camer­on Far­quhar Cosgrove.

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Kenny Deans Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • None Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Dir­ect­or of Kin­gussie Com­munity Devel­op­ment com­pany Cat­egory 3: Con­tracts None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • I own a house in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park area in Kin­gussie. Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Secur­it­ies None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests None Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Paul Gibb Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Man­aging Dir­ect­or of Coutts Gibb Ltd
  • Con­sult­ant Geo­lo­gist, Geo­tech­nic­al Solu­tion and Ser­vices. Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Build­ings None Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • Own 70% shared in Coutts Gibb Ltd Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • None Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Han­nah Grist Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Employed as Lec­turer in Scio-Envir­on­ment­al Sys­tem, Scot­tish Rur­al Col­lege High­er Edu­ca­tion Insti­tute (HEI)
  • Occa­sion­al work as a con­sult­ant, research and impact. Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Mem­ber of Young Academy of Scot­land, Roy­al Soci­ety of Edin­burgh. Con­trib­ut­ing to policy-rel­ev­ant projects.
  • Research­er at Scotland’s Rur­al Col­lege (SRUC). Lead­ing pro­jects includ­ing Rur­al and Envir­on­ment Sci­ence and Ana­lyt­ic­al Ser­vices Divi­sion (RESAS) — fun­ded work for Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment around pro­tec­ted areas. Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • Con­trib­ut­ing expert on a Scotland’s Rur­al Col­lege bid to the par­ti­cip­at­ory tender issued by the Park Author­ity. Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • None Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Secur­it­ies None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • None Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Rus­sell Jones Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • High­land Coun­cil­lor for Ward 20, Badenoch and Strathspey
  • Tim­ber and wood­chip sup­ply man­ager for Cairngorm Ski Ser­vices. Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Build­ings None Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Past Pres­id­ent Kin­gussie Caman­achd Club Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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John Kirk Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Man­age Mains of Curr farm until 30 April 2025
  • Dir­ect­or of Spey Val­ley Hire Centre Group
  • Own­er of Rothiemoon Farm until 30 April 2025
  • Dir­ect­or of Nethy Bridge Com­munity Com­pany Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Chair­man of Nethy Indoor Bowls
  • Chair­man of Nethy Newspaper
  • Chair­man of Nethy News Com­munity Com­pany Cat­egory 3: Con­tracts None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Own­er of home Rothiemoon farm
  • Half share of Grampi­an View, Aviemore
  • Half share of Myr­tle­field shops, Aviemore
  • Half share of Dal­faber, Indu­stir­al Estate units
  • Fort Wil­li­am site
  • Indus­tri­al Site, Inverness Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Secur­it­ies None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • Scot­land Big Pic­ture – Lynx Switzer­land. Part fun­ded by Nation­al Farm­ers Uni­on Scot­land (NFUS) and part fun­ded per­son­ally. Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Mem­ber – Nethy News Paper
  • Mem­ber – Nethy Bowl­ing Club
  • Mem­ber – Strath­spey Farm­ers Club
  • Mem­ber – Camp­ing and Cara­van Club
  • Mem­ber – Nethy Bridge Out­door Bowl­ing Club
  • Mem­ber — Nation­al Farm­ers Union
  • Mem­ber — Nation­al Beef Association
  • Mem­ber — High­land Machinery Ring Ltd
  • Mem­ber — Grant­own Men’s Shed

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  • Nethy Bridge Com­munity Centre Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Bill Lob­ban Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Con­vener of The High­land Council
  • Dir­ect­or of the Cairngorm Moun­tain Scot­land Ltd Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Com­mis­sion­er of the North­ern Light­house Board
  • Dir­ect­or of the North­ern Light­house Her­it­age Trust
  • Advisor to Board of Grant­own Museum Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Part Own­er of Fam­ily home Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • None Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Lauren Mac­Cal­lum Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • CEO Pro­tect Out Win­ters UK (until 18 Decem­ber 2024)
  • BBC Adven­ture Show Presenter
  • Author ​“Hid­den Scot­land” Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Dir­ect­or Wan­der­ing Work­shops CIC Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Own­er of house that accom­mod­ates a house share on Airb­nb in Badenoch and Strath­spey area Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • None Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Fiona McLean Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Mem­ber of Com­mit­tee of Scot­land, Nation­al Lot­tery Her­it­age Fund
  • Mem­ber of the Judi­cial Appoint­ments Board for Scot­land Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Rect­or, Uni­ver­sity of High­lands and Islands Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Joint own­er of a house in Newtonmore
  • Joint own­er of a hol­i­day house in Suth­er­land Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hos­pit­al­ity None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Scot­tish Soci­ety for Pre­ven­tion of Cruelty to Anim­als (SSPCA) Member
  • World Wild­life Fund (WWF) Member
  • Nation­al Trust for Scot­land Member
  • His­tor­ic Scot­land Mem­ber Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Steve Mickle­wright Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Employ­ee, received monthly salary fro Trees for Life, envir­on­ment char­ity. Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Rewild­ing Affric High­lands — Board Mem­ber of new char­ity (regis­tra­tion in pro­cess) Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • Dir­ect­or — Trees for life (enter­prises) Ltd, SC463269 — busi­ness arm of Trees for life char­ity. Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • None Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hos­pit­al­ity None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Con­vener — Scot­tish Rewild­ing Alli­ance, alli­ance of envir­on­ment­al Non- Gov­ern­ment­al Organ­isa­tions (NGOs)
  • Mem­ber — Scot­tish Greens Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Duncan Miller Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Dir­ect­or of DM Agri Sup­plies Ltd
  • Part­ner of Tul­lochgor­um Farm
  • Man­age Tul­lochgor­um Farm Airb­nb Cot­tage Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles None Cat­egory 3: Contracts
  • Tul­lochgor­um Farm part of Cairngorms Future Farm­ing Pro­ject 2024 – 2028 Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • None Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hos­pit­al­ity None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Mem­ber — Boat of Garten Golf Club
  • Mem­ber — Cairngorms Crofters and Farm­ers Com­munity (CCFC) Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • Part­ner owns Pil­ates Busi­ness that has used GrowBiz
  • Fath­er (as Ten­ant) has grant fund­ing from Cairngorms Future Farm­ing Project

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Ann Ross Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Coun­cil­lor — Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • None Cat­egory 3: Con­tracts None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Own­er of Res­id­en­tial Prop­erty Ban­chory Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • Invit­a­tion to the Open­ing of Fish­ing Sea­son on the Dee 01 Feb­ru­ary 2025 by the Dee Dis­trict Sal­mon Fish­ery Board Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Hon­or­ary Pres­id­ent of Ban­chory Singers
  • Mem­ber of the Scot­tish Women’s Rur­al Insti­tute — Dur­ris Women’s Institute
  • Mem­ber of Keep Care in Our Com­munit­ies Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • My hus­band is a co-opted to Crathes Dur­ris Dru­moak Community

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Derek Ross Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Elec­ted mem­ber for Moray Coun­cil, Ward 1 (Spey­side Glen­liv­et) Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • None Cat­egory 3: Con­tracts None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • None Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • 1½ share in mar­it­al home, Rothes, Moray
  • 1½ share in rent­al flat, King Street, Aberdeen
  • Wife owns 19 Lock­hart Place, Aviemore Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hos­pit­al­ity None Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Life Mem­ber Edu­ca­tion­al Insti­tute of Scotland
  • Trust­ee — Knockando Wool­mill Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • None

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Mike Wil­li­am­son Cat­egory 1: Remuneration

  • Perth and Kinross Coun­cil Cat­egory 2: Oth­er Roles
  • Perth and Kinross Coun­cil Cat­egory 3: Con­tracts None Cat­egory 4: Elec­tion Expenses
  • SNP Cat­egory 5: Houses, Land and Buildings
  • Ren­ted accom­mod­a­tion Cat­egory 6: Interest in Shares and Securities
  • None Cat­egory 7: Gifts and Hospitality
  • Octo­ber 2024, Enchanted Forest. 2 tick­ets Cat­egory 8: Non-Fin­an­cial Interests
  • Blair Atholl and Stru­an Ini­ti­at­ive Trust­ee Cat­egory 9: Close Fam­ily Members
  • Dorothy Wil­li­am­son
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