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

Watch: How Local Volunteers Transformed Rural Connectivity

This video captures what has been many years in the making. At B4NTR – Broadband for North Tyne and Redesdale, we are a locally run group of dedicated volunteers who have worked tirelessly to help bring full fibre broadband to our rural communities. From the earliest conversations back in 2015, through countless meetings, miles walked, and support built across our villages — this has always been a true community-led effort. What makes this achievement so special is the number of people involved.…

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…