Millennium Commission

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The Millennium Commission, a United Kingdom public body, was set up to celebrate the turn of the millennium. It used funding raised through the UK National Lottery to assist communities in marking the close of the second millennium and celebrating the start of the third. The body was wound up in 2006.

Contents

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  1 Composition
  


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  2 Closure
  


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  3 Examples of projects funded
  


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  4 Commissioners
  
  
  
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    4.1 Previous commissioners
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 References
  


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  6 External links
  

Composition

Set up in 1993 by the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, the Commission was an independent non-departmental public body.^{[citation needed]} 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 government minister was also a Commissioner.^{[citation needed]} During Tessa Jowell's tenure as Chair the second Minister was Richard Caborn, as Minister for Sport, who preceded Jowell in the department by one day, and who left the department contemporaneously (when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister).^{[citation needed]}

Closure

The Commission was wound up in December 2006 and its role was transferred to the Big Lottery Fund.^[1]

Examples of projects funded

• Black Country Urban Forest


• Centre for Life


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  Eden Project, Cornwall


• Falkirk Wheel


• Glasgow Science Centre


• INTECH


• Five Millennium piers for London River Services
  


• Magna Science Adventure Centre


• Millennium Bridge (London)


• Millennium Dome


• The Millennium Forest for Scotland project


• Millennium Greens


• Millennium Point (Birmingham)


• Millennium Seed Bank Project


• Millennium Stadium


• National Centre for Popular Music


• National Space Centre


• Odyssey Centre


• Our Dynamic Earth


• ReDiscover (joint venture with the Wellcome Trust and the Wolfson Foundation)^[2]
  


• Spinnaker Tower


• The Deep


• Wales Millennium Centre

Commissioners

There were initially nine commissioners – two ministers, one appointed by the opposition, and six independents. The number of commissioners was reduced to five as the work of the commission decreased. The final members were:

• Richard Caborn (Chair), Minister for Sport
  


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  Floella Benjamin, actress and author


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  Heather Couper, broadcaster and writer on space


• Judith Donovan, health and safety commissioner


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  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

References

1. 
   ^ The National Lottery Act 2006, section 16(1)(b); the National Lottery Distributors Dissolution Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2915), articles 1(2) and 2 (as read with article 1(1) of the Big Lottery Fund (Prescribed Expenditure) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3202))
   


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External links

• Millennium Commission website (archived)

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