£1.5m investment in superfast business support will boost Cheshire’s small businesses and help create over 400 jobs
More than 900 small and medium-sized businesses across Cheshire and Warrington are set to benefit from a £1.5m investment to help them gain from digital technology enabled by faster broadband.
Connecting Cheshire secures fibre broadband for 80,000 rural homes and businesses
High-speed fibre broadband will be rolled out to around 96 per cent of Cheshire homes and businesses in the next three years under a £28.5 million project between four Cheshire councils and BT.
Connecting Cheshire maps out fibre broadband expansion plans
Connecting Cheshire has revealed a fibre broadband rollout map just seven months after the signing of a £28.5m deal between BT and four Cheshire councils to bring fibre broadband to 96 per cent of Cheshire.
Rural Community Broadband Fund
The £20m Fund is delivered as part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE). The RCBF is jointly funded by Defra and Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) and provides grants to communities to establish superfast broadband in hard-to-reach areas.