{"id":3593,"date":"2026-08-08T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:24:29","slug":"b4rn-safedigs-help-us-prevent-community-outages-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/?p=3593","title":{"rendered":"B4RN &#8211; Safedigs: Help us prevent community outages &#8211; August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3595\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3595\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3595 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/B4RN-built-to-last-600x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/B4RN-built-to-last-600x262.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/B4RN-built-to-last-1000x437.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/B4RN-built-to-last-258x113.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/B4RN-built-to-last-624x272.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/B4RN-built-to-last.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3596\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3596 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/safedig-600x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/safedig-600x427.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/safedig-1000x712.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/safedig-242x172.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/safedig-624x444.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/safedig.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Safedigs: Help us prevent community outages<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hello to our amazing volunteers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Summer can be a busy time for groundworks, but accidental strikes on B4RN ducting and fibre can cause major service interruptions, expensive repairs, and long engineer callouts &#8211; often affecting whole communities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>We need people to contact us before they dig<\/strong>, but could really use your help in spreading the word locally.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Please encourage landowners, contractors and neighbours to email <strong><a href=\"mailto:safedigs@b4rn.org.uk\">safedigs@b4rn.org.uk<\/a><\/strong> with any upcoming plans and anything which shows the location (what3words is ideal). We can provide<strong> accurate maps<\/strong> to pinpoint exactly where our network runs before they start work and avoid any hiccups.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>If anyone uncovers damaged ducting or hits something by accident, please contact <strong><a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@b4rn.org.uk\">helpdesk@b4rn.org.uk<\/a><\/strong> or call\/WhatsApp <strong><a href=\"tel:01524555887\">01524 555887<\/a> <\/strong>as soon as possible.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Your support makes a huge difference &#8211; thank you for helping protect the network and keep our communities connected.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thank you<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The B4RN Team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/hfSNV8KeIPU?e=33be534d94&amp;c2id=0cb3fd01ad921a0b62fce1657eb3d177\">b4rn.org.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safedigs: Help us prevent community outages Hello to our amazing volunteers Summer can be a busy time for groundworks, but accidental strikes on B4RN ducting and fibre can cause major&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/?p=3593\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}