Performance Committee - Paper 1 - 2026 annual agenda

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Per­form­ance Com­mit­tee 2026 Annu­al Agenda

Terms of reference

1. Role: The Com­mit­tee will play a key role in seek­ing assur­ance that sig­ni­fic­ant pro­jects and pro­grammes of activ­ity delivered by the Author­ity or sup­por­ted by the Author­ity as lead applic­ant on behalf of a part­ner­ship, are deliv­er­ing against agreed stra­tegic object­ives and strategies. The Com­mit­tee will com­ple­ment the work of the full Board, which will con­tin­ue to receive reg­u­lar, full cor­por­ate per­form­ance reports, by seek­ing assur­ance around deliv­ery of any spe­cif­ic per­form­ance object­ives reques­ted by the Board through under­tak­ing deep dive reviews and under­tak­ing com­ple­ment­ary review of pro­ject papers not oth­er­wise seen by the full Board.
2. The Com­mit­tee will also con­sider wheth­er such pro­jects and pro­grammes present any new stra­tegic risks or vari­ation in exist­ing stra­tegic risks and refer them to the Audit and Risk Com­mit­tee for res­ol­u­tion where the mat­ter is assessed as sig­ni­fic­ant or seek man­age­ment action where more minor.

03 April 2026 α) Deer Incent­ive Scheme b) Cairngorms 2030 — Spe­cif­ic Theme Review c) Peat­land Action d) Com­mu­nic­a­tions: deliv­ery against strategy e) Com­munity Led Loc­al Development

12 June 2026 a) Cairngorms 2030 — Spe­cif­ic Theme Review b) Wrap up of Cli­mate adapt­a­tion fund c) Web­site d) Beaver Update e) Access Update f) Out­door Access

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11 Septem­ber 2026 a) Cairngorms 2030 — Spe­cif­ic Theme Review b) Peat­land Action c) Com­mu­nic­a­tions: deliv­ery against strategy d) Com­munity Led Loc­al Development

11 Decem­ber 2026 a) Cairngorms 2030 — Spe­cif­ic Theme Review b) Beaver Update c) Cairngorms Nature

Per­form­ance Committee

1. Mem­ber­ship: 6 (quor­um 4) plus Board Con­vener as a stand­ing member.
2. Staff in Attend­ance (all non-vot­ing): Chief Exec­ut­ive (Account­able Officer); Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices; Gov­ernance and Cor­por­ate Report­ing Man­ager; Head of Com­mu­nic­a­tions; Head of Organ­isa­tion­al Devel­op­ment, Clerk to Board or sub­sti­tute; oth­er staff as may be required to sup­port papers being presented
3. Extern­al Attend­ance: Any board mem­ber may attend these meet­ings should they wish, in a non-vot­ing capa­city. Board mem­bers attend­ing who are not mem­bers of the Com­mit­tee may be allowed to speak or ask ques­tions with the per­mis­sion of the Chair.
4. Spe­cif­ic Respons­ib­il­it­ies: α) To mon­it­or and eval­u­ate the per­form­ance of major pro­jects against the agreed out­comes of those pro­jects, ref­er­en­cing exist­ing pro­ject report­ing, and provid­ing assur­ance to the Board that such major pro­jects are mak­ing their expec­ted con­tri­bu­tions to stra­tegic cor­por­ate and Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan (NPPP) out­comes. b) To mon­it­or and eval­u­ate the poten­tial implic­a­tions of deliv­ery and actions of major pro­jects with ref­er­ence to the Park Authority’s agreed per­form­ance object­ives and to determ­ine wheth­er any remedi­al action is required.

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c) To ensure the deploy­ment of resources by the organ­isa­tion achieves best value in the deliv­ery of cor­por­ate object­ives by con­sid­er­ing pro­ject ini­ti­ation pro­pos­als for stra­tegic­ally sig­ni­fic­ant pro­jects and pro­grammes of activ­ity. d) Review ongo­ing pro­gramme and pro­ject gov­ernance to con­firm the inten­ded, approved deliv­ery, man­age­ment and report­ing struc­tures are in place as inten­ded. e) To ensure the Author­ity achieves Best Value in the deploy­ment of resources and learns from pro­ject clos­ure reviews of key pro­jects as a con­tinu­ous cycle of improve­ment in resource deploy­ment and deliv­ery. f) To main­tain over­sight of per­form­ance against key stra­tegic out­comes, such as Cli­mate Change tar­gets and the Authority’s pub­lic and stake­hold­er engage­ment tar­gets. g) To con­sider spe­cif­ic reports on per­form­ance against agreed stra­tegic out­comes as required.

1. Com­mit­tee life: Per­man­ent, with a review of remit annually.

Dav­id Camer­on 26 Novem­ber 2025 Davidcameron@​cairngorms.​co.​uk