ACT NOW, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE If you don’t do this, and you end up taking B4RN between March 2021 and March 2022, you will miss out on a free grant payment of £150 for yourself or the Halton Village Community Fund. The deadline for government (DCMS) funding registrations is 28th February 2021. This […]
Its been a long-time coming but at last B4RN’s village build programme has delivered its first connections to homes in Halton. The new cabinet situated at The Centre went live this morning with B4RN service delivered to homes in the village. Work by the contractors, alongside our own troop of volunteers from Halton, began in […]
Help secure funding for the installation of the B4RN network in Halton. The Funding Programme. The Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has accepted a proposal for Halton from B4RN. The funding is provided under the new Rural Gigabit Connectivity Programme (RGC) rules that came into force in May 2020. The RGC programme […]
What is happening on Saturday the 19th of October This coming Saturday, we are going to dig the two remaining routes through the School field. The 19th of October is the beginning of the half-term, allowing us to get in the grounds without risk of interruption or disruption. We will have the digger on hand as we did […]
What a fantastic turnout we had. We want to say a big thank you to everyone who helped. We completed the spur on the east side of the school field that has a capacity for over three hundred connections. We also provided ducting for individual links to the network for houses backing onto the school […]
I get a similar question emailed to me on regular basis from people all around the village, and it comes in various forms, however at the core it is basically ‘When Can I Get Connected to B4RN?’ The simple answer is that this is primarily down to you and your Block. You can see a […]
A great deal of progress has been made on core route planning the by the B4RN 4 H4LTON volunteers, and as a result of all the hard work we are happy to invite as many of you as possible to join with us to start digging part. The digging will go from The Centre up […]
Fibre being blown from Halton Mill to 13-25a Mill Lane (Barratt Houses) @11am Thu 22 June 2017. This is a significant milestone in our campaign and represents the cherry on the cake after all the hard work volunteers have undertaken to dig the trench and lay the ducting to these 8 houses. It’s a good […]
Great progress is being made in Halton on installation of the core infrastructure for the B4RN fibre optic network, with may volunteers working hard to get the hyperfast internet connections to their community. Everyone involved in B4RN 4 H4LTON is a volunteer, and everyone involved has been working tirelessly on moving the project forward. At the […]