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Orkney Talking Newspaper

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC002783
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Sept. 1, 2025. Filing history
Registered
June 29, 1984
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
The Orkney Library & Archive
44 Junction Road
Kirkwall
Orkney
KW15 1AG

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

The Orkney Talking Newspaper is set up to record and distribute recordings of the weekly newspaper, 'The Orcadian' to those people who are either blind or partially sighted or have any other disability which makes it difficult to read, living both in Orkney and further afield.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Older People','People with disabilities or health problems'

Objectives: 4.1 To record local (Orkney) news and information in a range of formats and to provide the facility of this recorded material to persons living within or outwith Orkney who are registered blind, partially sighted or labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity which makes reading a strain. 4.2 To co-ordinate volunteers to undertake the preparing, reading, and recording of published information and the delivery of the same to members.

Geography

Main operating location
Orkney Islands
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2025 Sept. 1, 2025On time £5,439 £10,436 1
March 31, 2024 June 25, 2024On time £57,454 £11,885 1
March 31, 2023 July 24, 2023On time £4,381 £8,198 1
March 31, 2022 Nov. 29, 2022On time £8,409 £15,065 1
March 31, 2021 Nov. 3, 2021On time £7,912 £8,268 1

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.