Loaf Paper 2 Events guide

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Ugh­dar­ras Pàirc Nàiseanta a’ Mhon­aidh Ruaidh Page 1 of 1

Cairngorms Loc­al Out­door Access Forum

Paper 2 — Guid­ance for Organ­ised Out­door Access Events Pre­pared by: Vicky Hilton, Out­door Access Officer

Pur­pose LOAF mem­bers are asked to review the draft doc­u­ment ​“Guid­ance for organ­ised out­door access events” in Appendix 1 and provide any feed­back or comments.

LOAF mem­bers are also asked to con­sider if water-based events should be included and what would con­sti­tute a small, medi­um and large scale event.

Back­ground The Cairngorms Nation­al Park is a pop­u­lar des­tin­a­tion for organ­ised out­door access events such as sponsored walks, com­pet­it­ive cycle races and adven­ture chal­lenges. Such events can be bene­fi­cial and encour­age par­ti­cip­a­tion in recre­ation, sup­port the enjoy­ment and dis­cov­ery of the Nation­al Park and bring eco­nom­ic bene­fits to com­munit­ies. How­ever, there is a need to ensure that events are run sus­tain­ably and don’t cause neg­at­ive impacts on the nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age of the Park or the people that live and work here.

The events guide is primar­ily aimed at organ­isers of out­door access events but also provides guid­ance and clar­ity for land man­agers about host­ing events on their land and when their per­mis­sion is required to run an event.

The guid­ance doc­u­ment is an update of a pre­vi­ous event guide and is based on the Nation­al Access Forum’s event guid­ance, cus­tom­ised and expan­ded for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park.