Originally Posted by
GeeRam
I presume, you advocate the RN doing the same for HMS Victory, and the Army doing the Same for the Tank Museum, which are MOD funded on the same basis as BBMF?
Not so.
BBMF is fully funded by MoD. As the RAF website quotes : "
The BBMF is a regular RAF unit, manned by service personnel and funded by the Ministry of Defence."
HMS Victory transferred to the National Museum of the RN over a decade ago, which is a non-departmental public body supporting six museums around the country, including a number of ships. That total NMRN receives about £5-6M pa in Grant in Aid from the MoD to support all those activities. It's overall revenue is £27-28M pa.
The Tank Museum is not MoD-funded, although MoD does fund the running costs of the museum buildings - "The support from the MoD takes the form of paying for services to support the upkeep and operations of buildings, and a number of non-cash items such as depreciation and cost of capital."
Not that I'm against the BBMF funding model by the way. In the great scheme of things it's probably unimportant. But it is - unlike the others - wholly funded by the MoD.