TEN Scottish Youth Arts Agencies are to receive nearly £50,000 as part of a digital arts programme.

The funding has been awarded in Argyll & Bute, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands, Moray, North Ayrshire and Stirling.

The £49,850 funding is to support the development of a series of youth-led digital arts projects.

Among the recipient projects are the Fochabers Fiddlers, who will experiment with digital artists in Moray.

Funding will go to digital-led workshops in North Ayrshire and Dundee, and the creation of digital graphic novels in Argyll & Bute.

The funding has been awarded through phase one of TTS.Digital - part of Time to Shine, which is Scotland's national youth arts strategy, which is led by Creative Scotland.

Fiona Hyslop, culture secretary, said: "These innovative new projects, led by young people and delivered by a partnership of arts organisations in collaboration with technology partners will help enable more children and young people to take part in culture and creativity across our communities in Scotland."

Colin Bradie, youth arts programme manager at Creative Scotland, said: "We are delighted to be delivering TTS.Digital through the implementation of the National Youth Arts Strategy.

"Young people are in many instances leading the way with digital creativity and these pioneering first phase projects will enable young people to co-create with arts and technology partners to explore new and exciting ways of engaging."

The successful groups are The Templar Arts and Leisure Centre Trust in Argyle and Bute, the Hot Chocolate Turst in Dundee as well as Dundee Contemporary Arts, Hoda Productions and Electric Bookshop in Edinburgh, Artlink in Stirling, the GFT in Glasgow, Youth Highland in the Highlands, Wildbird and Fochabers Fiddlers Group in Moray and MAKlab in North Ayrshire.

In August a second stage of the scheme will launch with an open call for larger scale projects.

The budget for 2014/15 will be £400,000.