The Millennium Commission in the United Kingdom was set up to aid communities at the end of the 2nd millennium and the start of the 3rd millennium. It used funding raised through the UK National Lottery.
The Commission was originally set up in 1993 through the UK government the National Lottery etc Act 1993. It was an independent non-departmental public body. Commissioners were appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister: the Chair of the Commission was, for most of its life, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and for most of its life a second cabinet Minister was also a Commissioner. During Tessa Jowell's tenure as Chair the second Minister was Richard Caborn.
Income from the National Lottery ceased in August 2001, but distribution of project grant funding continued until the Commission was abolished on 30 November 2006. Over £2 billion was given to fund buildings, environmental projects, celebrations and community schemes.
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Examples of projects funded
- Black Country Urban Forest
- Eden Project Cornwall
- Centre for Life
- The Deep
- Falkirk Wheel
- Glasgow Science Centre
- Magna Science Adventure Centre
- Millennium Dome
- Five Millennium piers for London River Services
- National Centre for Popular Music
- National Space Centre
- Odyssey Centre
- Our Dynamic Earth
- ReDiscover
- INTECH
- Millennium Stadium
Commissioners
There were initially nine commissioners, two ministers and one appointed by the opposition with six indepements; the number was reduced to five as the work of the commission decreased. The final members were
- Richard Caborn (Chair), Minister for Sport
- Floella Benjamin, actress and author
- Heather Couper, broadcaster and writer on space
- Judith Donovan, health and safety commissioner
- Michael Heseltine, former Conservative cabinet minister
Previous commissioners
- Virginia Bottomley
- Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
- Lord Clark of Windermere
- Jack Cunningham
- Matthew d'Ancona
- Richard Scott, Earl of Dalkeith
- Stephen Dorrell
- Sir John Hall
- Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran
- Sir Simon Jenkins
- Tessa Jowell
- Lord Montague of Oxford
- Mo Mowlam
- Barbara Roche
- Baroness Scotland of Asthal
- Baron Smith of Finsbury
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