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October 12, 2020 11:01 pm
A former Bletchley Park employee, Jean Valentine, handles part of the Turing Bombe — an electromechanical computer used to crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma code during WWII. | Photo by Rui Vieira / PA Images via Getty Images
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/12/21512883/facebook-donates-1-million-uk-bletchley-park-museum-revenue
Facebook donates 1 million to help save UKs WWII code-breaking center Bletchley Park
A former Bletchley Park employee, Jean Valentine, handles part of the Turing Bombe — an electromechanical computer used to crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma code during WWII. | Photo by Rui Vieira / PA Images via Getty Images
Facebook is donating £1 million ($1.3 million) to Bletchley Park, the UK center for Allied code-breaking during World War II that now operates as a museum.
The Bletchley Park Trust, a registered charity, announced in August that the site was facing a revenue shortfall of £2 million because of falling visitor numbers caused by the coronavirus. Because of the drop in revenue (amounting to 95 percent of annual income), the park announced it was considering 35 redundancies, constituting a third of its workforce. Facebook’s donation will save some of these jobs, but it’s not clear how many.
Facebook said it made the donation in recognition of Bletchley Park’s “ongoing...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/12/21512883/facebook-donates-1-million-uk-bletchley-park-museum-revenue
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