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CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
FINANCE COMMITTEE 


FOR DECISION 


Title: APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURE PREVIOUSLY 
PRESENTED TO THE CNPA BOARD 

Prepared by: Denby Pettitt, Finance Manager 


Purpose 

To formally approve commitment of expenditure on Land Based Business Training and 
Public Benefits for All projects for calendar year 2007. 


Recommendations 

That the Committee formally approve the expenditure detailed in para. 6 in respect of the 
Land Based Business Training and Public Benefits for All projects. 


Executive Summary 

a) At its August 2006 meeting the Board approved, in principle, the CNPA’s continued 
involvement with the LBBT project and the pilot of a new PBA project, subject to 
additional new funding being found from other key partners. 

b) Since the initial paper was presented to the Board, the CNPA has obtained an 
additional £42,000 with a further two funding applications (still to be determined). 
This has allowed the project to increase in size from £195,000 to £230,000 but CNPA’s 
contribution is planned to fall from £86,000 (44%) to £72,000 (31%). 

c) The CNPA’s contribution is for the 2007 calendar year and we already have a budget 
of £32,147 in the current 2006/07 Operational Plan for the three months to March 
2007. If two outstanding funding applications are refused the CNPA’s funding 
obligation would increase by £16,000. 



APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURE PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED TO THE 
CNPA BOARD - FOR DECISION 

Expenditure Previously Presented to the CNPA Board 

1. At its meeting on 11 August 2006, the CNPA Board agreed, in principle, the continuation 
of the Land Based Business training (LBBT) project and the piloting of a new Public 
Benefits for All (PBA) project for calendar year 2007. Full details of this were given in 
Board Paper 4 and para. 28 to 32 examined the financial implications. 

2. The agreement in principle was given subject to additional funding being found from 
other key partners. 


Future funding 

3. Since the Board meeting we have reviewed the budgets especially in the light of agreed 
European Social Fund monies that have now been approved. The following table builds 
on that presented to the Board in the August paper (para. 31) and shows the LBBT 
budget including the PBA costs: 

Funding 

Headings:
Current forecast 2007 £’000
Presented to Board 2007 £’000
Estimate 2006 £’000
Actual 2005 £’000 

CNPA (a) 
72 
86 
54 
43 

ESF 
62 
30 
117 
110 

Business contributions 
60 
54 
75 
60 

Other (see para. 4) 
36 
25 
-
6 

Project cost 
230 
195 
246 
219 

(a) Of this figure, £32,147 is already included in CNPA’s 2006-07 budget (Jan-Mar) 



4. The breakdown of other funding is: 

Headings:
Current forecast 2007 £’000
Presented to Board 2007 £’000
Estimate 2006 £’000
Actual 2005 £’000 

Confirmed funding 

HIE (Moray) 
10
5
-
-

HIE (IEH) 
10 
5
-
-

INBSE
-
-
-
6
 
Funding applied for 

Scottish Enterprise (Grampian) 
6 
5
-
-

Awards for All 
10 
10
 -
-

Project cost 
36 
25 
-
6 


5. The above tables show that CNPA has been successful in: 

i) obtaining European funding for 2007 despite funding, which has been the 
mainstay of the programme coming to an end; 

ii) maintaining the contribution that land-based businesses make towards the cost 
of training courses; and 

iii) securing other funding at greater levels than in previous years with a further two 
applications still awaiting approval. 

6. LBBT funding runs on a calendar year and, although the estimated CNPA contribution is 
£72,000 (para. 4), there is already just over £42,000 provided for in the 2006/07 
Operational Plan for the three months to the end of March 2007. The additional 
contribution would be £30,000 rising to £46,000 if the current applications to SEG and 
Awards for All are unsuccessful. A decision on both of these applications is expected in 
January. 


DENBY PETTITT 
21 November 2006 

denbypettitt@cairngorms.co.uk