The Irish Voice

For the last ten years The Irish Voice has been offered to our community every month, totally for free. This has been thanks to the support of our advertisers and sponsors, and the value they see in being associated with our publication.

Run by a very small team, who all have other work commitments, the pressure involved in each edition is great, and we are only able to continue our work thanks to the crucial efforts of contributors, supporters and delivery drivers, who offer their services to us.

Having negotiated the difficult Covid years, and now continuing to publish through an uncertain business environment, The Irish Voice is now looking to the next ten years and beyond in order to safeguard our voice for the Irish community and continue to represent and celebrate our people.

To do so we turn to the wider Irish community for support for the first time. In almost 120 editions we have published nearly 2000 pages of content, millions of words, thousands of pictures and over half a million individual copies of The Irish Voice. We have distributed these to every corner of Scotland, sent our newspaper to every county of Ireland and heard hundreds of happy stories of our editions being sent to readers’ families and friends around the world.

We have also been able to join other community organisations in the political representation of our community, forming relationships with, and giving platforms to, decision makers and stakeholders who can affect the key issues for the Irish in Scotland.

All of this has been done self-sufficiently, and with a commitment to always being free for outlets to stock and readers to enjoy.

However, we feel we must now ask for support from our community to allow us to safeguard our future. The amount we are seeking is £10,000, which will allow us to target the following areas which require urgent financial attention:

● Overhaul our existing website and online offering

● Change the constitution of the company to allow funding applications to be made

● Develop our print edition with a new look for our second decade

● Invest in the equipment and software which needs renewal

● Settle the (small) bounceback loan amount remaining outstanding, which allowed us to continue through lockdown

Please support our effort to maintain a voice for Scotland’s Irish, and if you are unable to donate we would be grateful if you can share our fundraising effort among your family, friends and wider community.

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