…. In the Pakastan War, the CIA civilians are running the war (office hours) and their is no risk to them personally. Bit like the civilians working in the manufacturing entities referred to elsewhere in the thread.

🙁 Really, like the 41 factory workers killed in an air raid on 7 March 1941 at the Ransome and Marles factory in Newark who will soon be commemorated with a ‘long over-due’ memorial.

http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/articles/news/Support-given-for-memorial

My late grandfather was in one of the ARP rescue teams that entered the bombed building – no pleasant memories from him that day!

My personal view is that despite the ‘sheer willpower’ that saw the aircraft returned to flight and all credit for achieving that – sadly the project has always operated on a fundamentally flawed business plan, which is near impossible to change now.

As for the PR side, basic marketing theory says ‘sell the sizzle not the sausage’ and quite frankly negative campaigning results in negative comments.

It also helps to ensure that in any news release all your basic facts are correct e.g. “Argentina’s Mig III fighters” in the September 22nd text!

Personally speaking the more aggressive and negative the ‘charitable pitch’ the less inclined I am to support it – sadly in these ‘challenging financial times’ the ‘charitable pitch’ is all too often falling into these categories.

Perhaps others feel the same!

In the simplest form I suggest that you look here http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1101948&SubsidiaryNumber=0

Where in the income pie chart five items are listed:

Voluntary (donations)
Trading to raise funds
Investments
Charitable activities
Other

As you then may appreciate not all charities just rely on donations.

This section might also be of help http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/FinancialHistory.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1101948&SubsidiaryNumber=0

Charities only exist and survive on continuing donations so your comment is irrelevant.

WADR if that is your understanding then you know little of charitable activities!

Newark’s leased site is based around two concrete dispersal points of the former RAF Winthorpe, which was home to 1661 HCU. Over the years a few small items have been recovered but nothing of any significance.

However the drainage dyke that separates the leased site from the Southfield Site (the land that the museum owns) has been slightly more productive. Each year this watercourse is cleared by the local drainage authority and it often turns up items. These are mainly of a ‘domestic’ nature i.e. wartime crockery, cutlery etc – these items are now displayed in the small objects display area at the museum.

Each year the ‘digger-driver’ is actively encouraged to go a little deeper and wider in his excavations is a vain attempt to locate the fabled RAF Winthorpe Stirling that is reputed to have helped form the culverting for this watercourse.

This process was recently completed but again to no avail for the Stirling fuselage – still there’s always next year! 😀