Latest News

Kinship Care Week runs from 11-15 March 2024 and in a bid to link up fellow kinship carers – also known as family and friends’ carers - an informal afternoon of coffee, cake and chat is being held at The Storehouse Restaurant, Bridge Street Wynd, Kirkwall on Wednesday 13 March from 1pm-3pm. 

Orkney Islands Council has welcomed the announcement that the county is to receive £20m of Levelling Up funding. 

It’s World Book Day on Thursday 7 March and Orkney’s schools will be welcoming all manner of characters through their doors to celebrate. 

An appeal for stories, letters and artefacts from Italian Chapel Prisoners of War has been launched by the committee who look after the Lamb Holm place of worship, in the leadup to 80 years since the camps fell silent.

Free webinars take place later this month, looking at how flexible working can help businesses attract and retain staff, enable folk to join the work force, and contribute to the local economy - offered by the Orkney Local Employability Partnership to all local employers.

Fares on the internal ferry routes serving Orkney are to rise by 8.7% this year in line with the rate set by Transport Scotland for subsidised external ferry services. 

A summing up of road delays and closures, for the week starting Monday 4 March 2024.

Orkney Islands Council is co-hosting a special pop-up event at Kirkwall Library on 13 and 14 March, to help folk who receive concessionary ferry travel collect their new electronic vouchers.

Orkney Islands Council’s Transportation Service is asking residents in South Ronaldsay to suggest the best days and times for an on-demand door-to-door community transport service in the area.