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Did you know - boarding a public bus in Orkney feeds a special pot of funding, helping support transport improvements including community transport in some of our most fragile communities.

Free Child Impact Assessment training for people who support children and young people in Orkney affected by a family member caught up in the justice system is being launched in the county next month (March). 

Nymeria Drayak and Iain Pretswell – both from South Ronaldsay – have started office as Orkney’s two Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament.

Orkney Islands Council has today (27 February) said it will freeze Council Tax in 2024/25 – as long as the Scottish Government in return can come good on an additional funding offer.

The offer – an expected additional £1.1m for Orkney – is dependent on the UK Government passing additional Barnett funding to the Scottish Government at their budget setting on 6 March.

 A series of pop-up ‘bubble teas’ devised by young people to help tackle youth loneliness is off to a strong start, with over 50 young people attending the first event in Firth in January and more events in the pipeline.

Orkney’s Parasport Festival returned on Friday 23 February, bringing huge smiles to peedie faces. 

Two candidates have put themselves forward for the vacant seat in the Stromness and South Isles by-election.

Voters will go to the polls on Thursday 28 March, with the names on the ballot paper being Janette Park and Magnus Thomson.  

I, Oliver David Reid, Returning Officer for the Election of Councillors to Orkney Islands Council, to be held on Thursday 28 March 2024, hereby give Notice that the following names and addresses of appointed election agents and the addresses of the offices or places of such election agents to which all claims, notices, legal process, and other documents addressed to them may be sent, have respectively been declared in writing to me as follows

 Folk on the private water register in Orkney are being encouraged to take part in a survey to help ensure a clean, secure supply is maintained into the future. 

Take part in the Scottish Government’s independent review of Community Learning and Development (CLD) and have your say on the impacts of CLD on your life opportunities and wellbeing.