B4RN's Gigabit full-fibre broadband is now available in Barrasford, Northumberland.
If you would like to register for a connection simply enter your postcode above, follow a few simple steps and you'll be on your way to getting a hyperfast B4RN connection as well as supporting your local community!
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B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd) is all about community. We can't do what we do without the help of local volunteers, investors and supportive landowners.
Communities have so much to gain: faster broadband for families and businesses, FREE service to primary schools, village halls, places of worship and other community assets.
The opportunity for the community to come together by creating a Community Dig Team, this enables communities to earn money to put back into their own community projects by garden digging and house kit fitting.
Alongside all this incredible benefits you get connected to a business and provider that cares about service!
Connecting Communities
We’re pleased to share an update on our ongoing progress in the North East.
As you may be aware, due to the scale of our projects, we are unable to progress all of them simultaneously. However, we aim to complete all the North East projects within 3 years.
As a result, some areas are making significant progress and are moving into our development and delivery phases, while others are still in the initial phase.
Barrasford has moved into delivery meaning we’re currently building B4RN network infrastructure in your local area and working to connect customers! You might have seen orange ducting and fibre being installed, or our green cabinet landing in your village.
Get Involved, Get Volunteering
B4RN is built on community spirit.
At B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd) we work hand-in-hand with rural communities to design, plan and build a full-fibre network. We then deliver some of the fastest internet service in the country (1,000mbps) to every customer on the network at a low cost.
We’ve been doing this for more than a decade, and we’re proud to have 14,000 rural properties currently taking service.
We can only do this thanks to the hard work and dedication of our amazing volunteers, who are willing to invest so much of their time and energy to deliver significant and lasting benefit to their wider community.
B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd) volunteers participate in a wide range of activities, from planning and walking routes, agreeing wayleaves, encouraging sign-up and investment, digging trenches, coordinating site work between volunteers and landowners, laying duct, installing chambers, helping to connect customers... and of course none of this would be possible without tea and cake.
Volunteering at B4RN is open to everyone and our volunteers are from all walks of life - volunteer groups have a wide variety of skills and experience. No prior experience is necessary, and where specific skills are required, we provide a range of training. B4RN volunteers gain a wide range of new skills and experience as the project develops.
Your Local B4RN Project Manager is Martin Dickson-Green.
If you have any questions on the project, want to get involved or a general enquiry please get in touch with him.
Email: Barrasford@b4rn.community
Get Involved, Get Investing
B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd) is a Community Benefit Society, we aren’t interested in commercial speculation, so we only extend our network into communities where we’re wanted.
Each new area that invites B4RN in needs to raise a certain level of investment to cover the work and materials required for their area’s installation. Currently, a significant amount of that cost is being met with government voucher funding.
Project Gigabit is the funding programme by the UK Government that promises £5 billion to subsidise the roll-out of gigabit-broadband to the ‘hardest to reach’ premises in the country that will not be reached by private investment.
Each new area needs to raise a certain level of investment to cover the remaining cost of work and materials required for their area’s installation.
What makes B4RN Different?
Rural communities are at the heart of what
we do.
The B4RN Mission:
"To deliver the best internet service in the country to the areas that are hardest to reach, working shoulder to shoulder with, and for, rural communities, to realise the enduring benefits of greater resilience and connectivity."
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