I live in Warrington, England and am proud to be helping SETI in their search.
I first learnt about SETI way back in the mid 1970's when I read a book about them. In those days they were called CETI which stood for Communication with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. It looks like they've decided to try and find something before they try communication, hence the name change!
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.