{"id":33815,"date":"2023-02-27T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=33815"},"modified":"2023-02-27T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:13:11","slug":"full-fibre-operator-freedom-fibre-awards-money-from-community-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/02\/full-fibre-operator-freedom-fibre-awards-money-from-community-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Full Fibre Operator Freedom Fibre Awards Money from Community Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network builder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomfibre.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedom Fibre<\/a>, which aims to cover over 2 million UK premises with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) network and is being supported by ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, has awarded thousands of pounds worth of grants to 13 local community schemes in some of the areas where their new infrastructure is being built.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In case anybody has forgotten, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/freedomfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Fibre<\/a> initially set aside <strong>\u00a34,000<\/strong> for their new &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomfibre.com\/fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Freedom Fund<\/em><\/a>&#8221; at the end of 2022 (potentially rising to \u00a360k by the end of 2023), which is open to non-profit groups and was welcoming applications for up to \u00a3250 per community project. The fund is now closed for applications, but it is expected to re-open again sometime this year.<\/p>\n<p>In total, thirteen community groups from Culcheth (Cheshire), Irlam (Salford), Weaverham (Cheshire) and Whitchurch (Shropshire) received \u00a3250 each from the company\u2019s Freedom Fund to help deliver environmental projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Winners of the Freedom Fund (Initial Round)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-ol\">\n<li id=\"viewer-2pnfv\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-reset _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>Croft Village Memorial Hall, Culcheth<\/strong> received \u00a3250 towards environmental projects in their grounds including installing bird and bat boxes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"viewer-cu9ea\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>Warrington Sunday Litter Team<\/strong> received \u00a3250 to purchase new litter picking equipment for their volunteer teams in Culcheth, Croft and Winwick.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"viewer-1v3um\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>Friends of Irlam Library<\/strong> received \u00a3250 to transform a courtyard in to a fully-accessible green space within the library<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"viewer-8tjqe\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>Princes Park Garden Centre, Irlam<\/strong> received \u00a3250 towards a rainwater collection system.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"viewer-icvp\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>Poorlots Allotments<\/strong>, <strong>Irlam<\/strong> received \u00a3250 to help create a nature reserve on a derelict piece of land;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"viewer-fra44\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>The Rotary Club of Irlam<\/strong> received \u00a3250 towards an ecoflow portable power unit to power their Santa Float in future years.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li 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public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>The Inner Wheel Club of Whitchurch<\/strong> received \u00a3250 to continue adopting derelict pieces of land across the town to transform them in to community gardens.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"viewer-22vl0\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p class=\"_1j-51 _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\"><strong>St. Alkmund\u2019s Church, Whitchurch<\/strong> was awarded \u00a3250 for green improvements at the church, including creating bug hotels, installing bird boxes and putting in an information board.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"viewer-ea1dk\" class=\"roLFQS _2ULPL public-DraftStyleDefault-orderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-list-ltr fixed-tab-size _1FoOD _3M0Fe Z63qyL roLFQS\">\n<p 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replace fluorescent lighting with more efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neil McArthur, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/freedomfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Fibre<\/a>\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, said: &#8220;<em>I\u2019m absolutely delighted that we have been able to make awards to these very worthy causes. Playing our part in the communities in which we are working is so important to us \u2013 I can\u2019t wait to see these projects come to fruition!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The operator, which is being backed by a \u00a384m investment from Equitix and a \u00a316m Santander debt facility, was previously aiming to cover 70,000 premises by the end of 2022 (they\u2019d done 40k by Nov 2022 and are quickly ramping up) and they have a long-term aspiration to reach over 2 million UK properties (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/10\/freedomfibre-reveal-map-of-full-fibre-rollout-in-england-and-wales.html\">Coverage Map<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/freedomfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Fibre<\/a> is mostly focusing upon connecting towns and villages across Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Shropshire and North Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network builder Freedom Fibre, which aims to cover over 2 million UK premises with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network and is being supported by ISP TalkTalk, has awarded thousands of pounds worth of grants to 13 local community schemes in some of the areas where their new infrastructure is being built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[432,56,1868,459,71],"class_list":["post-33815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-cheshire","tag-fttp","tag-manchester","tag-shropshire","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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