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Access Broadband Cymru grant scheme

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13 September 2021
31 December 2024
Rolling deadline
£400 - £800
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For profit
Individuals
Not for profit (incl. NGOs)
Public sector
Wales
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Overview

The Access Broadband Cymru scheme is funded and administered by the Welsh Government. A grant scheme designed to improve broadband speeds across Wales for individuals, businesses, voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations, particularly those in rural communities.

Access Broadband Cymru offers funding towards the delivery of faster broadband connections for businesses, residents and communities across Wales.

The initiative is targeted specifically at premises that currently receive slow broadband. Access Broadband Cymru provides grant support to install alternative broadband solutions capable of delivering stable superfast download speeds.

The scheme will offer a two tier voucher that provides grant support towards eligible costs for a broadband connection that result in a download speed step change.

The voucher denominations are:

  • £400 voucher for 10Mbps and 20Mbps broadband packages.
  • £800 voucher for a superfast broadband package (30Mbps and above).
Eligibility

The scheme is open to individuals, businesses, voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations and communities in Wales where the broadband connection (if available) cannot deliver a step change in service provision of at least twice the current download speed. The proposed new service must ensure an absolute minimum download speed of at least 10Mbps.

Applications requesting step change speeds that result in download speeds lower than 10Mbps will not be supported by the scheme. The money can be used to fund the delivery of faster broadband connections in commercial, residential and third sector premises

This is a rolling programme.

Applications may be submitted at any time.

Further advice and assistance with submitting an application may be sought directly from the Welsh Government.

Before applying for government funding, people are urged to visit the Superfast Cymru website and use the postcode checker to see if their local exchange is already due to be upgraded.

More details can be accessed here

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19 April 2023