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With organisations such as Arts & Business and the National Campaign for the Arts reporting falls in private sector support for culture, it is becoming harder for museums and galleries to find philanthropic support.
But some large companies are still giving, with Google particularly active recently. Last month, it announced a £550,000 donation for Bletchley Park, the site in Milton Keynes where codebreaking activities took place during the second world war.
The money will go towards the match-funding that the Bletchley Park Trust needs to unlock a £4.6m grant announced by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in October.
The trust plans a £15m redevelopment of the site, the birthplace of the modern computer and home to the Enigma machines. The Google and HLF money is for the £7.4m first phase of the project.
Google is keen to support technology, and in April announced a total of £7.7m in grants to science museums worldwide, including the Science Museum in London.
The Science Museum will use its £1.2m to open a temporary exhibition looking at Alan Turing’s influence on the fields of computing, codebreaking, mathematics, artificial intelligence and biology, in June.
The money will also fund a permanent exhibition exploring the history of information and communication technologies, opening in summer 2014.
Google gave more than £64m to organisations last year, including £29m in support of female education; fighting slavery and human trafficking; empowerment through technology; and science, maths, technology, and engineering education.
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But some large companies are still giving, with Google particularly active recently. Last month, it announced a £550,000 donation for Bletchley Park, the site in Milton Keynes where codebreaking activities took place during the second world war.
The money will go towards the match-funding that the Bletchley Park Trust needs to unlock a £4.6m grant announced by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in October.
The trust plans a £15m redevelopment of the site, the birthplace of the modern computer and home to the Enigma machines. The Google and HLF money is for the £7.4m first phase of the project.
Google is keen to support technology, and in April announced a total of £7.7m in grants to science museums worldwide, including the Science Museum in London.
The Science Museum will use its £1.2m to open a temporary exhibition looking at Alan Turing’s influence on the fields of computing, codebreaking, mathematics, artificial intelligence and biology, in June.
The money will also fund a permanent exhibition exploring the history of information and communication technologies, opening in summer 2014.
Google gave more than £64m to organisations last year, including £29m in support of female education; fighting slavery and human trafficking; empowerment through technology; and science, maths, technology, and engineering education.
www.google.org