Recently the North Devon Journal announced that North Devon will benefit from Objective 2 funding. This is European cash “designed to create jobs and raise incomes over the next seven years”.
Already, it seems, there are many schemes in this area providing help and equipment to rural communities. For example, Devon County Council has a scheme providing local communities with a brushwood chipper to dispose of garden waste. Another scheme already in place is the Intracom project.
Intracom provides community access to the Internet, completely free of charge. The Devon wide scheme mostly has terminals in public buildings such as town libraries. More isolated communities, such as Bradworthy, have been provided with terminals in their village halls.
The terminal in Bradworthy Memorial Hall is freely available to all for “surfing“ the internet, sending and receiving e-mails or just to see what modern computers can do.
Devon County Council has set up an Internet web site and is requesting input from us at Bradworthy. Further village information is currently available on the Bradworthy News Web site. The Internet address for this is www.bradworthy.com.
For more information on how to use the Community Internet Access please look at the board outside the Memorial Hall or 'phone me at 241147.