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 impact of the pandemic has meant that from March to July this year it [the Trust] lost over 95% of its income leaving a large gap in its annual budget,” the post says, and will likely lead to a loss of £2m this year and necessitating a restructure. That effort will “includes a possible 35 redundancies, approximately a third of the workforce” as a measure to reduce outgoings.
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