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> "Eventually a big grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and major donations from tech firms, funded the restoration of the site and the building of a museum .
by squarefoot 6y ago
> "Eventually a big grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and major donations from tech firms, funded the restoration of the site and the building of a museum ..."
Personally I find ironic that a monument to the use of math to help win a war gets big funds from the lottery, which essentially is a tax on the lack of knowledge of maths. ...Or maybe it's the most brilliant way to make good use of that money.
However, I would also expect the military to donate the most money, due to the huge number of soldiers lives saved through intercepting Nazi communications. Also they would deserve some form of tax exemption. It's not just about maintaining some buldings and people working there, but also keeping that memory alive, which is priceless.
- KineticLensman 6y ago> expect the military to donate the most money, due to the huge number of soldiers lives saved through intercepting Nazi communications Defence spending is really complicated. In the UK, annual defence spending typically pays for the cost of equipping and maintaining the armed services, but the costs of actually going on operations are usually from a separate budget. Ops (wars) are essentially a form of unpredictable expense, requested by politicians, not the generals. If the UK defence budget donated to causes like this, there would be less to spend on people, stuff, training, etc. By way of example, the Imperial War Museum [0] is funded by government grants, charitable donations, and revenue generation through commercial activity such as retailing, licensing, and publishing [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum [Edit - clarity]