BALQUHIDDER COMMUNITY BROADBAND COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANYActive

The Company has been responsible for building a full fibre broadband network within the communities of Balquhidder and Balquhidder Station. This has been done in partnership with Bogons Limited who provide the internet services. The Company were encouraged in this activity by Community Broadband Scotland who promised grant funding. They were also supported by Stirling Council and LEADER who did infact provide funding. This allowed initial activity, the creation of the Company and some material purchases. The funding process with Community Broadband Scotland proved more difficult than expected and eventually after much delay and on legal advice we had to pull back from the process just before Scottish Government, disbanded Community Broadband Scotland. However, the partnership with Bogons Limited had been agreed, materials had been purchased and some work had commenced. Broadband Delivery UK, the national government broadband funder, were at this stage launching their Gigabit Broadband Voucher scheme to which Bogons Limited were able to sign up and a small number of vouchers were obtained. This initial scheme quickly ran out of its original funding allocation and there was a delay before the next Gigabit Voucher Scheme was launched. Since then and until recently there has been issues with Bogons being able to join the scheme, Much of this was beyond our control and due to erroneous data held by government and we went through a process of being told yes you can apply, everythin

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