Register of Interests of Members (revised 8 April 2016)
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 Convenor, Cairngorms National Park Authority (remunerated position) Aberdeenshire Councillor Category 2 – none 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 Scotland 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 Supporter – Greenpeace Member – UK Network of Environmental Economists Member – Diabetes UK 1 Rebecca Badger continued… Supporter – Cancer Research UK Secretary and Treasurer – Carrbridge Primary School Parent Council Committee member – Carrbridge Active
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 National Forest Land Scheme Evaluation Panel Member of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society
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 Self employed Landscape Artist and Limited Edition Print Producer trading under own name Writer and Photographer on the sport of Shinty for the Strathspey and Badenoch Herald (weekly in season) and occasionally other newspapers Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 Joint tenancy with spouse of property at Woodlea, Main Street, Newtonmore Category 5 – none
2 Dave Fallows continued… Category 6 Member – Scottish National Party Life Member – Newtonmore Camanachd Club Director – Highland Housing Alliance Chair – Highland Opportunity Ltd Chair – Society of Badenoch and Strathspey Artists/ The Iona Gallery
Katrina Farquhar Category 1 Landlord for two properties Councillor for Aberdeenshire Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 Owner of a house in Logie Coldstone, Aboyne Owner of a Flat and Office in Ballater Category 5 – none Category 6 Member – Logie Coldstone Curling Club Member – Ballater Golf Club Member – Balmoral Golf Club Member – Braemar Golf Club Member – British Cycling Club Director – Cairngorms Outdoor Access Trust Director – Ballater Royal Deeside Trustee - Logie Coldstone Hall Trust
Jeanette Gaul Category 1 Elected member of Angus Council 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 Perthshire 1/4 owner house Achnamara Lochgilphead 3 Janet Hunter continued… Category 5 Share holder SilverHunter ltd Category 6 Member - British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI) Member - The British Association of Ski Patrollers (BASP)
Kathleen M Howie Category 1 Perth and Kinross Councillor 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 Board Member Perth and Kinross Integrated Joint Board Convenor – Scots Language Centre Governor – Pitlochry 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 – Logierait Bridge Company Vice Convenor - Moulin Heritage Trust Vice Convenor – Blair Atholl and Struan Initiative Trustee – Cuil-An-Daraich Trust Trustee – Lorimer Trust Member – Pitlochry Civic Trust Friend – Willie Soutar Society
Gregor Hutcheon Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 Owner, Mill of Newe House, Strathdon Category 5 – none Category 6 Director – Cairngorms Outdoor Access Trust (COAT) and COAT Trading
4 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 Category 5 – none Category 6 Member – Scotways Member – National Trust for Scotland Elected Member representative – Marr Area Partnership Committee
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 Member of Dalfaber Action Group
Eleanor Mackintosh Category 1 Husband, Robert Mackintosh, sole tenant of Tombreckachie Farm, Glenlivet. Help with farm but receive no remuneration. Member of Moray Children’s Panel Chairman Upper Banffshire Training Group Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 – none Category 5 – none Category 6 Chairman – Glenlivet Public Hall Co-opted member – Glenlivet Primary School Parent Council
5 Fiona Murdoch Category 1 Elected member of Moray Council Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 – none Category 5 – none Category 6 Anti Wind Farm Campaigner Member – Moray Local Access Forum Trustee – Get Rugged self-build charity
Willie McKenna Category 1 – none Category 2 – none Category 3 – none Category 4 Part owner family home Category 5 – none Category 6 Director - Aviemore Community Company Director Member - Brittish Association Snowsports Member – Scottish National Party
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 Chair – 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
6 Gregor Rimell Category 1 Elected Highland Council Member for Badenoch and Strathspey Ward 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
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 – 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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