• Source: Millennium Commission

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.




Composition



Set up in 1993 by the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, the Commission 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 government minister was also a Commissioner. 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).




Closure


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




Examples of projects funded


The Commission invested over £2 billion in buildings, environmental projects, celebrations and community schemes. Funded projects include:

Black Country Urban Forest
Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne
Dundee Science Centre
Eden Project, Cornwall
Falkirk Wheel
Glasgow Science Centre
Winchester Science Centre (formerly INTECH)
Five Millennium piers for London River Services
Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham
Millennium Bridge, London
Millennium Dome, London
Ceramica, a museum in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent about the area's pottery industry (closed in 2011)
The Millennium Forest for Scotland
Millennium Greens in cities, towns and villages
Millennium Point, Birmingham
Millennium Seed Bank, West Sussex
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield (closed in 2000)
National Space Centre, Leicester
Odyssey Centre, Belfast
Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
ReDiscover, Newcastle upon Tyne (joint venture with the Wellcome Trust and the Wolfson Foundation)
Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
Sheffield Winter Garden
The Deep, Hull, an aquarium
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
A number of village halls and community meeting places




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
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

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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






External links


Millennium Commission website (archived 22 December 2006)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Millennium Dome
• Britania Raya
• Hong Kong
• Jeffrey Sachs
• Globalisasi
• Pernyataan Umum tentang Hak-Hak Asasi Manusia
• Rusia
• Israel
• Danone
• Anita Hill
• Millennium Commission
• Millennium Dome
• Westminster Millennium Pier
• Millennium Stadium
• Millennium stamp
• Tower Millennium Pier
• Millennium Bridge, London
• Millennium Link
• Heather Couper
• Cardiff Bay Opera House