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Presumably cock-up rather than conspiracy, but you can search the UK Charities Commission for information on any charity. Bletchley Park says that its registere

Presumably cock-up rather than conspiracy, but you can search the UK Charities Commission for information on any charity. Bletchley Park says that its registered charity number is 1012743 - https://bletchleypark.org.uk/about-us/contact-us https://bletchleypark.org.uk/about-us/contact-us - but I can't find anything when searching the Charity Commission website: https://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/?searchText=1012743&pageNumber=1 https://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/?search... I'd be interested to know a bit more about the breakdown of their finances. As another comment says, I wonder just how much Iain Standen, their CEO, gets paid, and whether he offered to take any kind of pay cut. Not saying it would eliminate all layoffs and / or furloughs, but it would be a meaningful gesture of solidarity.

chrisseaton 6y ago
Looks like at most £110k when you read the accounts. Not sure why you're not finding them and mentioning words like 'conspiracy' and 'cock-up' - they're right here if you bother to look for them: http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/FinancialHistory.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1012743&SubsidiaryNumber=0 http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfC...
- frereubu 6y ago
  Didn't mean anything arch by that. I tried looking for them by name and charity number but nothing turned up. I consider it a cock-up that I couldn't find them by searching by charity number on the Charity Commission website, which has worked for every charity I've done that for. The only other explanation was that they were going to change their charity status, but I considered that unlikely, hence "cock-up rather than conspiracy".
m-_- 6y ago
Latest accounts:http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43/0001012743_AC_20181231_E_C.pdf http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43/0001012... shows £5.32M cash at bank, which likely will have grown to over 6Mn in 2019. This is all at the same time they are kicking out their large commercial tenant who run an innovation centre (end of this year) so they can create some more museum, office and education space. I imagine this situation is not 'so severe' that they will walk back that decision.

chrisseaton 6y ago

Looks like at most £110k when you read the accounts. Not sure why you're not finding them and mentioning words like 'conspiracy' and 'cock-up' - they're right here if you bother to look for them: http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/FinancialHistory.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1012743&SubsidiaryNumber=0 http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfC...

frereubu 6y ago
Didn't mean anything arch by that. I tried looking for them by name and charity number but nothing turned up. I consider it a cock-up that I couldn't find them by searching by charity number on the Charity Commission website, which has worked for every charity I've done that for. The only other explanation was that they were going to change their charity status, but I considered that unlikely, hence "cock-up rather than conspiracy".

m-_- 6y ago

Latest accounts:http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43/0001012743_AC_20181231_E_C.pdf http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43/0001012... shows £5.32M cash at bank, which likely will have grown to over 6Mn in 2019. This is all at the same time they are kicking out their large commercial tenant who run an innovation centre (end of this year) so they can create some more museum, office and education space. I imagine this situation is not 'so severe' that they will walk back that decision.