Sectors Turkish ↔ English
Charities and community organisations
Advice centres, mosques, community associations and support services reach Turkish and Kurdish speakers who cannot get what they need in English. The documents are short, the budgets are small and the stakes are often high.
What community organisations ask for
Advice leaflets and know-your-rights material in Turkish; forms, consent wording and privacy notices; safeguarding and complaints policies; letters to and from statutory services; and, for service users, certified translations of personal documents needed for a housing, benefits, school or immigration matter. Larger organisations also need funding applications and reports translated when a Turkish partner or funder is involved.
Plain language does not translate itself
A leaflet written at reading age nine in English becomes difficult in Turkish if it is translated sentence by sentence, because the grammar builds long clauses by default. We rewrite for plainness in Turkish instead: shorter sentences, verbs where English uses nouns, no legal register unless the meaning depends on it. Where a UK term has no Turkish equivalent — universal credit, safeguarding, the specific names of benefits and courts — we keep the English name and explain it, so a reader can recognise it on the letter in front of them.
Interpreting, and one thing we will not do
Appointments, casework and helpline calls are covered by telephone and video interpreting, booked in advance. We will not agree to a family member, and least of all a child, being used as the interpreter for a safeguarding, medical or immigration conversation because a budget is tight; if the money is not there for the session, say so and we will discuss what is possible rather than let that happen. Confidentiality is handled as it is for any client — restricted access, deletion on request — and set out in confidentiality and data protection.
Money, plainly
English into Turkish is from £6.50 per 1,000-character page and Turkish into English from £10.00, with certification included and no UK VAT charged. A two-page A5 leaflet is usually £13; a privacy notice is £20–30; a certified personal document for a service user is £10.00 a page. There is a one-page minimum, and small jobs are accepted — a single letter is not too small to send. Organisations sending work regularly agree a rate and monthly invoicing terms we agree with you in writing before the first job; tell us your budget at the start and we will tell you honestly what fits inside it.
Frequently asked questions
Do you offer reduced rates for charities?
Tell us the budget and the volume and we will tell you what we can do. We would rather agree a realistic rate at the outset than promise a discount and dilute the work.
Can you translate into Kurdish as well as Turkish?
Kurmanji and Sorani are available, with narrower capacity than Turkish, so give more notice. See our Kurdish translation page.
Can a volunteer’s translation be certified by you?
Only after a full check, which is charged as revision. We will not certify text we have not verified line by line.
How do you handle service users’ personal data?
Access is limited to the translator and reviser, files are returned through the channel you specify and deleted on request. Immigration, medical and safeguarding documents are treated as special category data.