Cairngorms National Park Partnership Plan 2022-27 - Other - Page 71
B10. A Park for All
Anyone, no matter who they are, where they come from, what their beliefs or their needs are, should be able to
visit and enjoy the Cairngorms National Park. We recognise that a continued focus on equalities is imperative,
particularly at the current time, following a global pandemic and in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis that has
exacerbated inequalities in our society.
We have also recognised in the last few years the need to engage more proactively with external equalities
experts. To this end we reconstituted our Equalities Advisory Panel in 2020, bringing together experts from
across the public, private and third sector to provide evidence-based feedback, guidance and advice, grounded
wherever possible in lived experience.
Residents of the National Park should have opportunities to benefit from living in a spectacular natural
environment with a strong sense of community. There is also a need to provide targeted support across the
National Park to ensure that programmes and projects contribute to reducing inequalities for residents and
visitors alike.
Finally, we also need to ensure that a wider range of people are involved in, benefit from and support
activities that protect and enhance nature and tackle climate change in the National Park. Tackling the climate
emergency and nature crisis can only be done by taking people with us: local communities, workers in the rural
economy, visitors, under-represented groups and so on.
OBJECTIVE
There will be better opportunities for everyone to enjoy the
National Park and the visitor profile will be more diverse,
especially with regards to people who are disabled, from
lower socio-economic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from
minority and ethnic groups.
TARGET
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Visitors to the National Park will more closely resemble the overall
demography of Scotland.
INDICATOR
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Resident and visitor values and attitudes to key issues in the
National Park are regularly evaluated.
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