# Orkney Talking Newspaper

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC002783
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** June 29, 1984
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC002783


## Contact

- **Address:** The Orkney Library  &amp; Archive, 44 Junction Road, Kirkwall, Orkney
- **Postcode:** KW15 1AG



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The Orkney Talking Newspaper is set up to record and  distribute recordings of the weekly newspaper, &#x27;The Orcadian&#x27; 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:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;

**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






