Security News > 2020 > August > Bletchley Park Trust can’t crack COVID-caused revenue slump without losing staff

The Bletchley Park Trust, the host of Britain's National Museum of Computing and the site of critical feats of wartime code-cracking, has hit financial strife and expects to lay off around a third of its staff.

The Trust posted news of its plight late last week, writing that it "Is proposing to restructure as a result of the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis."

The Trust furloughed 85 per cent of its staff and managed to secure some additional funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, but those savings and extra cash injection did not enable the organisation to keep operating at its current level of expenditure.

The Trust aims to "Educate people from all over the world in order to inspire them with Bletchley Park's crucial role in World War Two" and has done so by offering exhibits of the facilities used to crack codes during the conflict, the mansion and temporary exhibits.

"I had hoped that we might avoid the need to do this, but we find ourselves with no other choice if we are to secure the future of the Bletchley Park Trust," he said.

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