AN INVERCLYDE community interest company’s plan to set up a ‘digital community’ involving two other groups in the area has secured financial backing from the council.

Access Technology Scotland (ATS) has been given £2,250 from the local authority’s community grants fund.

The cash will be used to support efforts to build a digital community between ATS, Morton in the Community, and local young people's charity Youth Connections.

Access Technology Scotland is the social enterprise arm of Port Glasgow-based Software Training Scotland, which has been providing opportunities in digital learning to individuals, groups and organisations in Inverclyde and across Scotland since 2011.