LATEST NEWS - OCTOBER 2020 B4NTR is coming! Lets get ready to join the party! We hope that you are all well and surviving the virus. We are sorry that the Covid restrictions have limited our door to door activities and slowed this project down - but behind the scenes things have still been happening! If, like us, you have been trying to use your Internet connection more recently - whether it’s for working from home, skyping (other methods of Zooming are available) friends and relatives, distance learning or watching Netflix (or ‘catch-up’ TV without that very annoying wheel in the centre) - you will be appreciating what an important tool this is - or could be! This will undoubtedly continue to be recognised in future with rural businesses increasingly important - don’t get left behind - help yourself AND your local community by applying for your Government Gigabyte Voucher scheme NOW (see reverse) Barrasford area have met their targets - routes have now been walked, nearly all Wayleaves agreed and we hope that actual digging will start later this year. iNorthumberland and the Borderlands Growth Incentive (borderlandsgrowth.com) approve B4RN as a provider of internet services in this area - and provide extra funding to ‘top-up’ the existing GVS (NB no-one else is offering their services to us all!!) Further progress has been achieved in Allendale with 2 new cabinets installed in September - look out for more news from South Northumberland!! More info: b4rn.org.uk and b4ntr.com 

HOW TO APPLY FOR: YOUR GOVERNMENT BROADBAND VOUCHER The all-important link to government Gigabit Voucher Scheme sign-ups is - https://b4rn.org.uk/postcode-checker/ Complete the form, look out for the response from DCMS (Dept. Culture Media and Sport ( - check your junk folder) and reply to that. You will be contacted when your local ‘champion’ gets notification of your successful application. Remember that applying for these vouchers cost you nothing! They are a promise to take up the broadband service when available - and there will be no cancellation fees if you change your mind.

 

 

If you would like Bavington Parish Council to keep in touch about parish matters, please forward name, email address and telephone number to Claire Miller, Parish Clerk: clairemillerparishclerk@hotmail.co.uk.  Your data will be held according to the Data Protection Act 2018, and will only be used for this purpose.

Bavington Parish Council meetings take place four times a year on the first Thursday of every February, May, August and November, commencing at 7pm in the Meeting Room, United Reformed Church (URC), Great Bavington.  The Annual Meeting takes place in May.  Members of the public are invited to attend these meetings, and there is an opportunity at each meeting for the public to speak and raise issues of concern.  The agenda and minutes are published on the noticeboard at Great Bavington and Little Bavington and available on this web-site.

The Parish Clerk, Claire Miller, can be contacted on 01669 621565; clairemillerparishclerk@hotmail.co.uk

 

Parish Councillors' contact details:

'Peter Acton, Chairman: Plashetts Farm, Kirkwhelpington, NE19 2PJ.  Tel: 01830 540240

Richard Taylor, Vice Chairman: Great Bavington Farm, Great Bavington, NE19 2BH, Tel: 01830 540259

Catherine Hogg: Bavington Mount, Capheaton, NE19 2BD, Tel: 01830 530240

John Spearman: North Heugh Farm, Barrasford, NE48 4DL, Tel: 01830 540216

Peter Ramsden:  Carr House, Great Bavington, NE19 2BN ramsdenpd@gmail.com

Lance Robson: Sweethope Farm, Great Bavington, NE19 2PL lance.robson@btinternet.com

 

Parish Councillor Declaration of Interest Forms are available to view at:

http://committee.northumberland.gov.uk/ParishCouncils

County Councllor: John Riddle, Blakelaw Farm, Bellingham NE48 2EF, Tel: 01434 220250 e-mail John.Riddle@northumberland.gov.uk

Member of Parliament: Mr Guy Opperman, 1 Meal Market, Hexham, NE46 1NF, Tel: 01434 603777