A new website has been launched with the aim of making consultation a better experience for the consultees and more effective for those doing the consulting.

Engage Orkney is where a range of organisations can put up public consultations.

Engage Orkney has been developed by the Aspire Orkney partnership. This includes organisations from the private sector, Orkney Islands Council and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

The platform will be available to be used by organisations from both inside and outside Orkney which would like to gauge public feeling on a particular subject.

Aspire Orkney’s chairman Glen McLellan said the aim was to change the image of consultation in general and to connect with folk all over the county who might not normally take part in surveys or consultations.

To start you are asked to complete a very simple registration process on the site before you can being to share your views and opinions.