What Our Social Enterprise Does
Access Technology Scotland is our Community Interest Company that exists to widen access to high quality digital skills education, training and facilities particularly amongst groups that are disadvantaged financially, socially or geographically. We remove barriers and aim to provide these services free of charge to the people who need them the most.
Who Do We Help?
We provide technology learning sessions to many groups within the community such as the unemployed, older people, people with dementia, people recovering from addiction, young people and refugees. We constantly look to help people who are disadvantaged and to address marginalisation.
Would you like to get involved? Click on the projects below for more information.
Larkfield Digital Space
Larkfield Digital Space is a collaborative project with Youth Connections and Larkfield Children's Centre. The project focuses on establishing a Digital Community Hub with free weekly digital skills learning sessions, a drop-in tech bar and an online resource.
Virtual Garden
The Virtual Garden project works in partnership with Parklea 'Branching Out' who use horticulture and their community garden to provide a variety of support services to adults and young people with additional support needs or mental health problems in Inverclyde.
Moving Online
Moving Online is a collaborative project between our social enterprise Access Technology Scotland and Moving On Inverclyde to improve the digital skills of people recovering from addiction.
Digital Skills for Employability
We work with local partners such as Greenock Job Centre, Your Voice, SAMH Inverclyde, Youth Connections and Circles Network Inverclyde to help people improve digital skills for increased success in finding employment or progressing in education.
Music Connections
Music Connections works in partnership with local organisation Your Voice - Inverclyde Community Care Forum (ICCF), where we deliver music sessions that encourage people local to Inverclyde and refugees to connect through a mutual passion for music.
Sounds Right
This project is tackling inequality in educational opportunity by working with primary school children in North Ayrshire to study and evaluate the effects of music and technology learning opportunities on young people living in areas of deprivation.