# Bletchley Park completes £2.4 million appeal to unlock £5 million matched funding

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/06/27/bletchley-park-completes-24-million-appeal-unlock-5m-matched-funding/
- Published: 2012-06-27T12:58:47+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Bletchley Park Trust has succeeded in raising the £2.4 million in match funding 
necessary to unlock a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £5 million. The combined £7.4
million will enable it to begin urgent restoration of the currently derelict Codebreaking
Huts 3 and 6, and the development of a visitor centre and exhibition space.

The announcement came in the same week as the centenary of the birth of genius Codebreaker,
Alan Turing.

The Bletchley Park Trust had made the appeal for £2.4 million in September 2011.
The funding was raised with the support of The Astor Foundation, The Garfield Weston
Foundation, The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity, Google, The Linbury Trust, The Prince
of Wales’s Charitable Foundation, The Sidney E Frank Foundation, Winton Charitable
Foundation, The Wixamtree Trust, The Wolfson Foundation and The Woodroffe Benton
Foundation. Individual donors also helped reach the total, including Jason Gorman,
with Softaid, and Astrid Byro and her one-woman trek to Everest Base Camp.

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Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, said: “This is an exciting and unparalleled
milestone in the twenty year history of the work of the Bletchley Park Trust, allowing
us to start the work of preserving this site for future generations and in permanent
tribute to the extraordinary men and women who worked here during WW2.”

The Trust will now embark on another fundraising campaign, expected to be in the
region of £15 million, for the next phase of its plan to transform Bletchley Park
into a world-class heritage and education centre.

www.bletchleypark.org.uk

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