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Ooooh nice! I remember when I celebrated Halloween there with my ex a few years back, when she worked there. Lots of fun memories.

To the other HNers, I can tell you that GOSH is one of the more deserving places for a perpetual copyright.

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As has been pointed out: Give them perpetual funding according to the needs of the children, not pervert unrelated systems to provide an unstable income stream.

Your mistake is in equating a voluntary donation by a private individual out of his own goodwill to government funding. As a private individual, if I wanted to simply give money from my work to an institution, the government should have no say in how returns from my work should be used, except if it is in the spirit of facilitating my intended purpose. The status quo is exactly what JM Barrie had intended.

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