Bad News

Bad News – DCMS have basically put our project on hold.

Sign Up – Help

We had some feedback on the sign up/voucher request form being confusing so have added some notes: Go to https://b4rn.org.uk/postcode-checker/ and enter your post code. For a residential property you just need to fill in the asterisked fields. The following descriptions match the green boxes on my image below. 1 Towards the end of the

2 days to go!

280 (41%) registered interest, 91 (13%) now signed up, 2 days to go! Met with the Openreach engineer this morning. Checked how the new B4RN cabinet would be connected to fibre at the Kirkby in Furness Community Centre. Thankfully all seemed relatively straight forward. Let’s not miss out on this government funding for our community.

Don’t forget

Please don’t forget if you have registered interest in B4RN, you now need to do the actual sign up for B4RN. 280 (41%) registered interest, 70 (10%) now signed up, 6 days to go! Please sign up, registered or not, simply enter your postcode and fill out the form: https://b4rn.org.uk/postcode-checker If we don’t meed the

Well done Crook

Well done Crook, they should get their funding. B4RN Kirkby Ireleth: 280 (41%) registered interest, 60 (9%) now signed up, 8 days to go! Please sign up, simply enter your postcode and fill out the form: https://b4rn.org.uk/postcode-checker Thank you Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/b4rnkirkbyireleth

Get B4RN

B4RN are sending out a sign up email today to those that registered interest and provided an email address (may need to check your junk/spam folder). If you can’t wait or didn’t register please use the following link and enter your postcode:https://b4rn.org.uk/postcode-checker Please take care entering your data as this will be passed to the

Well Done – Kirkby Ireleth

We have reached 40% interest in our B4RN community fibre broadband project.  We will shortly be sharing the ‘Get B4RN’ links to allow everyone to apply for B4RN and their government voucher towards the project. The pressure will be on now as we need to get everyone registered for vouchers by 10th September and our

B4RN Connect+

New offering for those in contract – B4RN Connect+ If you are stuck in a broadband contract that has 12 months or less to run you can get B4RN service for only a £5 monthly tariff until your other deal runs out. (Remember: a £150 one-off connection fee still applies.) https://b4rn.org.uk/connectplus

Application for link to B4RN

Exciting news, just in: B4RN have completed the application for the link between Kirkby Ireleth and Witherslack (B4RN’s nearest existing network). This is basically like a fibre tunnel temporarily using Openreach Dark Fibre. The next step is a survey with an Openreach engineer to confirm this will all work, but it is looking promising. Basically

Grizebeck/Woodland pop ups

The next B4RN Kirkby Ireleth pop up information events will be: Saturday 10th July – Grizebeck, CGP car park opposite The Greyhound; 2pm – 4pm Sunday 11th July – Woodland, Tomsteads open garden; 10am – 4pm Please come and talk to us, we are local volunteers trying to bring this incredible gigabit broadband to our