Our sponsors

The Challenge could not exist without the long term support of our sponsors. We are extremely grateful to them for their encouragement and financial assistance.

BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT is the pre-eminent professional society in information technology and have been involved with the Challenge for the past six years. They sponsor the Prizegiving at Bletchley Park, which this year will be held on March 30th.

GCHQ is the front line in the nation's intelligence gathering operation, it is also one of the largest employers of professional mathematicians outside of the University sector. They have been sponsors of the Challenge more or less since it started and continue to support us by providing the GCHQ prize of £1,000 for the overall winner of the championship.

IBM is one of the oldest and most prestigious IT companies in the world. They have supported the competition from its inception and provide an annual prize of £800 to the runners up.

Trinity College Cambridge, home to Isaac Newton, needs no introduction. The College joined with the University of Southampton to support the National Cipher Challenge as part of their schools outreach partly because of links with Hampshire, and partly because so many of our competitors were applying there! They fund a third prize of £700.

Our newest sponsor Netcraft is one of the leading internet security companies in the UK. Netcraft provides security services to companies worldwide, helping protect people from fraud and theft. They join us for the first time this year having learnt about us from a past winner of the competition. They were so impressed by him that they wanted to find out more. They have kindly offered a prize of a number of Targus backpacks emblazoned with the Netcraft logo which they will award to runners up in  Challenge 8B.