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Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) - UK

The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) is a grant of up to £3,500 for rural small and medium-sized businesses in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help them get faster broadband. This scheme has closed.

Run by Building Digital UK, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) · funded by Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Last read from gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk on 17 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 31 August 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

Small vouchers of up to £4,500 each for residents and businesses in areas without Project Gigabit contracts or commercial coverage, to help them upgrade to gigabit-capable broadband connections.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closed 31 August 2026

As stated: The GBVS closed to new voucher project submissions on 31 August 2026.

Not confirmed on the official page

How much

Up to £3,500

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Available to rural SMEs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

How to apply

Not stated in this text; new voucher project submissions closed on 31 August 2026.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Last read from gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk on 17 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 17 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Building Digital UK before you apply.

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