Bletchley Park in the News

The second world war codebreaking centre needs a further £6m for upgrade, say campaigners Second world war codebreaking centre Bletchley Park has been given a £250,000 grant from the government to pay for urgent repairs to the centre, including resurfacing potholed roads and car parks and new roofs on the buildings where German Enigma codes were cracked in the war. But Sue Black, a campaigner ...

Social media tools are helping raise awareness of the campaign to save World War II code-breaking site Bletchley Park as the government announced funding for much-needed maintenance work.

Angelica Mari, Computing , Friday 26 March 2010 at 15:55:00 Twitter boosts profile of campaign for preservation of historical code-breaking centre Social media tools are helping raise awareness of the campaign to save World War II code-breaking site Bletchley Park as the government announced funding for much-needed maintenance work. Yesterday, culture secretary Ben Bradshaw announced that £250 ...

Bletchley Park has finally received some funding from the Government towards the repair work needed on the ageing site. The grant of £250,000 comes from the reallocation of underspending elsewhere in the Department of Culture Media and Sport's (DCMS) budget for 2009-2010.

That's £50k less than Milton Keynes council gave Famed World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park has been given £250k by the British government - which owes its existence to work performed at the site - for urgent repairs.... Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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World War II code-breaking centre Bletchley Park gets a £250,000 government grant for 'critical' repairs.

The government is allocating £250,000 of Department of Culture, Media and Sport funding to help restore the World War Two code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park.

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 25 March 2010 at 12:54:00 History from the heart of World War Two code breaking On the day when the government announced a £250,000 grant to the Bletchley Park Trust , V3.co.uk was privileged to interview Jean Valentine, who worked at the centre during World War Two operating one of the electromagnetic bombes used to decipher German codes. The ...

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Thursday 25 March 2010 at 12:00:00 Long campaign for funding finally pays off The government is allocating £250,000 of Department of Culture, Media and Sport funding to help restore the World War Two code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. The announcement, made by culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, followed a long campaign for better funding of the centre ...