NEWS RELEASE
Wednesday 5th December 2012
Bletchley Park Wins Technology Award
Proud to be V3’s Technology Charity of the Year
The Bletchley Park Trust has been named Technology Charity of the Year by the tech industry news website V3. The Trust’s CEO Iain Standen also gave the keynote speech at last Friday’s awards ceremony in London, where Samsung and Google swept the board with four and three awards respectively.
V3 says this year’s awards were hotly contested, with almost 300 entries from more than 100 companies, and that the Bletchley Park Trust’s award was “a richly deserved reward for the work the organisation is doing to keep historical British codebreaking efforts alive.”
Iain Standen said “It’s a privilege to be lined up alongside hugely successful and prestigious technology companies such as Google, Yammer and McAfee. It’s also great to see the modern computer industry recognising the historic importance of Bletchley Park as the birthplace of modern computing, and how the innovations made here during World War Two remain relevant to today’s digital age.”
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For further information or to arrange an interview, contact Katherine Lynch, Media Manager, Bletchley Park 01908 272661, 07903 138806
For visitor information, contact 01908 640404, info@bletchleypark.org.uk, or go to www.bletchleypark.org.uk
Notes to Editors
- Bletchley Park is the Home of the Codebreakers – where during World War Two top secret codebreaking work was carried out on behalf of the Allies. It is said that the work carried out at Bletchley Park helped shorten the war by as much as two years.
- The Bletchley Park Trust was formed in 1992 to save the historic site from being lost to development. Bletchley Park has since opened to the public as a heritage site and museum. The present mission of the Trust is to preserve and develop Bletchley Park as a world-class museum, heritage site and education centre in order to enhance the understanding of the critical contribution of codebreaking and intelligence in World War II, the birth of computing and electronic security, and how these unique achievements remain relevant today.
- Bletchley Park is open daily except Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Details of the exhibitions, operating hours and events at Bletchley Park are available at www.bletchleypark.org.uk, together with details of admissions charges.
- Bletchley Park Trust has initiated a major project to preserve the historic buildings on the site, to develop a world-class museum on codebreaking and the development of computers. Further investment is needed to bring these plans to fruition.
- Contact: Katherine Lynch, Media Manager, 01908 272661, 07903 138806 klynch@bletchleypark.org.uk
