B4NTR – Broadband for North Tyne and Redesdale – Rural Community Fibre Volunteer Group

Kirkwhelpington and Beyond – B4NTR Project October 2025 Update.

We’re excited to share the latest progress from the B4NTR project! B4RN teams are currently hard at work in the Kirkwhelpington area, connecting the final homes in this section of the build. Already, well over 100 properties are online, with many more eligible to benefit as their current broadband deals come to an end. It’s particularly rewarding to see B4RN fibre boxes appearing on homes far from the villages, bringing high-speed, reliable connectivity to households that previously had little or no broadband…

First Connections GO LIVE in Kirkwhelpington build!

The First Connections have gone live in Great Bavington, part of the Kirkwhelpington Project and is the first project B4RN are teaming up with Nokia to provide hyper-fast, reliable connectivity! There is a central fibre internet cabinet in Kirkwhelpton village which is the heart of this part of the project and where from all of the house fibre connections fan out. This needs its own internet connection from a similar B4RN Cabinet in Barrasford (about a 30 Km fibre cable run away…

B4NTR grows into B4RN North East!

The fastest broadband speeds are coming to over 6,000 homes and businesses across rural Northumberland and County Durham as part of the B4RN North East project. In collaboration with Building Digital UK (BDUK) and Northumberland County Council, B4RN is delivering several projects as part of Project Gigabit, the UK Government's £5 billion programme aimed at providing lightning-fast, gigabit-capable broadband to the hardest-to-reach communities. Having already connected the Allen Valleys, from Spartylea through Whitfield and Catton, B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), is currently rolling out…

Join us in Cambo – This Wednesday 8th of May @ 7pm

B4RN is coming to the Bavington's, Kirkwhelpington and Wallington very soon! Major Progress has been made towards completing the Barrasford build in order to bring a live connection into the Kirkwhelpington side of the project. We're close to commencing the build to every property in the area! We will need your help with the final stages before then though so please come along to one of the meetings to see how you can be involved. We have some exciting detail to share…