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Register of Interests of Members (revised 24 May 2017)

Category 1: Remuneration Category 2: Related Undertakings Category 3: Contracts Category 4: Houses, Land and Buildings Category 5: Shares and Securities Category 6: Non Financial Interests

Peter Argyle Category 1  Convener, Cairngorms National Park Authority (remunerated position)  Aberdeenshire Councillor Category 2  Vice Chair - National Parks UK  Director - National Park Partnerships Ltd Category 3 – none Category 4  Proprietor – flat at Parsonage Square, Glasgow G4 0TA  Proprietor – Stoneleigh, Torphins AB31 4JX  Owner – 1/3 share of land at Hopwas, Tamworth, Staffordshire Category 5 – none Category 6  Member – National Trust for  Member – Scottish Liberal Democrats  Director ex-officio – Mid Deeside Limited (Community Company)  Vice-Chairman and board member – Nestrans  Chair – Aberdeen City and Shire Strategic Development Planning Authority

Rebecca Badger Category 1  Employee – Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Category 2 - none Category 3 - none Category 4  Part owner (with spouse) of property at Birchbank, Carr Road, Carrbridge, Invernessshire, PH23 3AD Category 5 - none Category 6  Member – RSPB 1 Rebecca Badger continued…  Supporter – Greenpeace  Member – UK Network of Environmental Economists  Member – Diabetes UK  Supporter – Cancer Research UK

Geva Blackett Category 1  Councillor, Ward 15 Aberdeenshire Council Category 2 - None Category 3 - None Category 4 –  Occupier rent free of Cottage, as part of agreement with husband’s ex-employers, Invercauld Estate to Sept 2017  Occupier of family trust owned Balnellan House, Braemar rent free for life  Joint owner of 44 Bridge, Street, Ballater  Part owner of 8, 17, 25 & 27 School Lane, Appleby, Lincs. Category 5 - None Category 6 – None

Angela Douglas Category 1  Self-employed sole trader operating as A Douglas Consultancy – freelance forestry and environmental specialist service  Board Director – Olsson Forest Ltd (forest ownership and management of one forest north of Inverness  Executive Director and Company Secretary – Scotland’s Finest Woods Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 – none Category 5 - none Category 6  Fellow – Institute of Chartered Foresters  Member – Confor: promoting forestry and wood  Member – Diabetes UK  Occasional supporter of selected charities  Member – Newburgh Train Station Campaign  Member – Co-operative Society  Member – Forestry Commission Scotland’s Highland’s and Islands Forestry Forum  Member of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society  Member – Native Woodland Discussion Group  Member – Peffery Way  Member – Strathpeffer Community Association  Member - National Trust for Scotland

2 Paul Easto - Category 1 – Employee of Wilderness Scotland Ltd Category 2 - none Category 3 - none Category 4 – Joint Owner of house in Newtonmore Category 5  Shareholder of Wilderness Scotland Ltd Category 6 – Member - John Muir Trust

Dave Fallows Category 1  Elected member, The Highland Council (Chair, Pensions committee, Chair ICT Reprovision Executive Board (Members))  Landscape Artist and Limited Edition Print Producer  Writer and Photographer on the sport of Shinty for the Strathspey and Herald (weekly in season) Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Joint tenancy with spouse of property at Woodlea, Main Street, Newtonmore Category 5 – none Category 6  Life Member – Newtonmore Camanachd Club  Director – Highland Housing Alliance  Chair – Highland Opportunity Ltd  Director and Chairman Society of Badenoch & Strathspey Artists (Scottish Charity Number SC046852)  Director Cairngorms Community Broadband (nominated by CNPA)  Member, John Muir Trust

Jeanette Gaul Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 – none Category 5 – none Category 6 – none

Janet Hunter Category 1  Director of SilverHunter LTD - communications and project management services.  Fire Fighter - Fire Scotland  Ski Patroller - Glenshee Ski Company Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Joint owner house Enochdhu, Strathardle 3 Janet Hunter continued…  1/4 owner house Achnamara Lochgilphead Category 5  Share holder SilverHunter ltd Category 6  Member - British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI)  Member - The British Association of Ski Patrollers (BASP)  Member – Mount Blair Community Development Trust  Board Member of Cairngorms Outdoor Access Trust (nominated by CNPA)

Kathleen M Howie Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Owner of house in Pitnacree, Strathtay, Perthshire  Owner of flat in St Andrew’s Square, Glasgow Category 5 – none Category 6  Governor – Festival Theatre  Governor – Heartland Radio  Convenor – Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire Station Liaison Group  Exec Member – Highland Main Line Community Rail Partnership  Exec Member – Pitlochry Partnership  Exec Member – Highland Perthshire Communities Partnership  Exec Member – Bridge Company  Trustee – Ossian Direct Ltd

Gregor Hutcheon Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Owner, Mill of Newe House, Category 5 – none Category 6 – none

John Latham Category 1  Elected member for Aberdeenshire Council, Ward 14 (Huntly, Strathbogie and the House of Alford)  Highland Ecology and Development Ltd, Henrietta Park, Balblair, Black Isle – occasional survey work for this company on a self employed basis Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Owner of house in Alford area – Glenend Tough, Alford – plus six acres of farmland at the same address 4 John Latham continued… Category 5 – none Category 6  Member – Scotways  Elected Member representative – Area Partnership Committee  Member – Camping and Caravan Club  Member – Liberal Democrat Party

Bill Lobban Category 1  Elected member of The Highland Council Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Part owner of family home Category 5 – none Category 6  Member of Scottish National Party

Eleanor Mackintosh Category 1  Husband & Son, Robert Mackintosh & Alistair Mackintosh, farm in partnership at Tombreckachie Farm, Glenlivet. Help with farm but receive no remuneration.  Member of Children’s Panel  Chairman Upper Banffshire Training Group Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 – none Category 5 – none Category 6  Co-opted member – Glenlivet Primary School Parent Council  Committee member – Glenlivet & Inveravon Community Association  Seconded Member – British Wool and Marketing Board, Northern Committee  CNPA Representative on Tomintoul & Glenlivet Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Board  Member – Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust  Lead Panel Representative on Highland/ Moray Area Support Team, Childrens Hearings Scotland.

Fiona Murdoch Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 – none Category 5 – none Category 6  Anti-Wind Farm Campaigner  Member - Cairngorms Local Access Forum  Trustee – Get Rugged self-build charity 5 Willie McKenna Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Part owner family home in Rothiemurchus Category 5 – none Category 6  Director - Aviemore Community Company Director  Member - British Association Snowsports  Member – Caravan Camping Club

Gordon Riddler Category 1  Managing Director – CD Capital (UK) Ltd (Corporate technical advisory work on a contract for services basis for a natural resources investment fund for projects overseas) Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Owner of House in Invercauld Park, Ballater Category 5 – none Category 6  Fellow – Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM)  Member – Minsouth, London (Local Branch of IMMM)  Member – Irish Association of Economic Geologists  Member – National Trust for Scotland  Member – Ballater Victoria and Albert Halls Improvement Group  Member – Ballater and District Probus Club  Member – Ballater Local History Group  Member – Ballater Golf Club  Member – Ballater Curling Club  CNPA Representative – Ballater (Royal Deeside) Ltd – BRD  Hon Treasurer – Ballater Highland Games Limited  Trustee – Victoria and Albert Halls (Ballater) Trust

Gregor Rimell Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Co-owner of home in Newtonmore  Member – Scottish Liberal Democrats  Co-owner – Thistle Dhu holiday letting business, Broomlea, Newtonmore PH20 1AT Category 5 – none Category 6  Treasurer – Badenoch and Strathspey Drug and Alcohol Forum  Member – National Trust for Scotland 6 Judith Webb Category 1 –  Part-time lecturer, UHI IC Scottish School of Forestry  Some self employed consultancy  Part - time registration officer / celebrant for civil marriages Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 - none Category 5 – none Category 6 –  Chair – Forest Research Audit & Risk Assurance Committee  Member Forestry Commission Scotland Highland and Islands Regional Forestry Forum  Member Royal Forestry Society  Member BASC  Member British Deer Society

Brian Wood Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4  Owner, Downfield Cottage, Braemar Category 5 – none Category 6  Justice of the Peace and Honorary Sheriff – Grampian, Highlands and Islands  Member – Braemar Community Ltd  Volunteer Guide – Braemar Castle  Secretary – Braemar Local History Group  Member – National Trust for Scotland  Member – Ballater Angling Association  Member – Braemar Golf Club  Chair – St Margaret’s Trust SCIO Braemar  Chair – St Margaret’s Development Project, Braemar  Member – Business Committee of the General Council of the University of Aberdeen  Member – Cairngorms Local Action Group

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