Commitment

Irvine Old subscribes to the policy statement agreed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2006:

The Church of Scotland is committed to:

• taking all reasonably practicable steps

to deliver the appropriate level of access, physical, intellectual, and spiritual, for all people to the services provided by the Church

• ensuring compliance with all statutory requirements

relating to disability discrimination

• ensuring that the measures taken to improve access

for people with disabilities are compatible with the conservation interests of its building

• encouraging congregations and Councils

to take appropriate steps to make all members (including office bearers), adherents, staff and volunteers aware of the importance of not discriminating against people with disabilities and to ensure that these representatives of congregations and councils receive appropriate training.

• promoting accessibility

by ensuring that information on accessibility is available in an appropriate form (for example, that the times of services are accompanied by an appropriate direction of access, so that no confusion or difficulty is created for those who have physical and/or learning disabilities)

• ensuring that arrangements relating to access

for people with disabilities are regularly reviewed.

In line with this commitment:

• all Irvine Olds  premises have wheelchair access.
• the church has been installed with the ‘loop system’.
• a disabled toilet is available in the suite of halls.
• at Sunday morning worship, a large print version of the praise is available.