Nigel Moffatt - Network Manager
The team here at MMCC were dismayed by the news that an appeal for the government to donate funds to WW II code breaking museum Bletchley Park has been rejected.
Bletchley Park, the birthplace of the world’s first electronic computer, is asking for £250,000 a year to meet running costs after visitor numbers doubled in the last three years. Nearly 22,000 people signed an online petition calling for the government to put more money into the home of the wartime code breakers and even the famous Tweeter Stephen Fry wrote on his Twitter page: “If we can’t save the place that arguably did the most to win us the war, what hope is there for us as a nation.”
MMCC’s Network Manager Nigel Moffatt said, “It’s unbelievable that this request for funding has been rejected. The work that these code breakers did is one of the main reasons we have the quality of life we do in the UK today and future generations need to be reminded of it. I’d like to see all IT software companies rallying together to support this unique site and put pressure on the government to review its decision.”
A major application has now been placed with the Heritage Lottery Fund which, if successful, will provide the much needed funding for the development of the museum over the next three to five years, after which it is hoped Bletchley Park will be self-supporting.