Community venues

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Dear Orkney Islands Council,

I am requesting a list of "Community Venues" defined as facilities the Council owns that can be hired for community use. This may include Community Centres, Community Halls, Libraries, Town Halls, Pavilions and any other facilities that can be booked for community use.

Please provide a table with the following columns:

· Name of venue
· Number of bookable spaces
· Total venue income from bookings last financial year (£)
· Does the venue have an online booking system*

*Online booking system is defined as the ability for a customer to book and pay online.

For example:
· Kingswood Community Centre
· 3 bookable spaces
· £30,000
· Yes

Yours faithfully,

T. Houghton

foi, Orkney Islands Council

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

Thank you for your information request dated 15 March 2024 and received on 15 March 2024. Our reference is FOI 2024-0307. This is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

We are considering your request. We may be in touch soon to ask for further clarification or to offer advice and assistance if we are not able to fulfil your request in its present form.

The legislation allows us up to 20 working days from the date that we receive a valid request, including any clarification we need to make a final response. We will be in touch within 20 working days of receipt of your initial request to provide our response or to seek clarification where necessary. We hope to give you the information you are looking for at an earlier date if possible.

Regards

Katy Russell-Duff
Committees Officer/FOI Practitioner
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Orkney Islands Council
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2239

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foi, Orkney Islands Council

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

I refer to your information request received 15 March 2024. Our reference is FOI 2024-0307.

Can you please clarify if sports halls, leisure facilities, swimming pools and museums should also be included as ‘Community Venues’.

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Kind regards

Katy Russell-Duff
Committees Officer/FOI Practitioner
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Orkney Islands Council
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2239

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Dear Katy,

Many thanks for your question.

Please include museums, but only the other venues if there is bookable space for community activities - i.e. meetings, parties/events, business activity, fitness classes. A swimming pool or football pitch would not need to be included in this.

Yours sincerely,

T. Houghton

foi, Orkney Islands Council

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

I refer to your email dated 15 March 2024 and received on 15 March 2024, our reference is FOI 2024-0307.

I am pleased to give the information you requested, as attached, and hope that it meets your requirements.

Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review within 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to Service Manager (Governance), Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email]. Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:

That you are asking for a review of this decision, and
Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.

We will issue a full response to your request for review within 20 working days of our receiving it.

Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to do so following receipt of our review outcome – see www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

Regards

Paul Kesterton
Information Governance Officer
Strategy, Performance & Business Solutions
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone: 01856 873535 Extension: 2241
www.orkney.gov.uk

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