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Two Millennium Commission funded projects - the National Cycle Network and the Millennium Coastal Park were presented with National Lottery Helping Hand Awards at a ceremony at Tate Modern on Saturday 6th November. The Awards formed part of the celebrations for the National Lottery's 10th birthday. The National Cycle Network won the UK Life Helping Hand Award for the Lottery project which has had the biggest impact on the whole of the UK. Created by the sustainable transport charity Sustrans, the Network provides 8,200 miles of cycling and walking routes throughout the UK, and this is on course to go up to 10,000 miles by the end of 2005. The route links a series of traffic free paths, traffic calmed roads and minor roads which connect urban and rural areas and is freely available to everyone. The Millennium Coastal Park in Llanelli was awarded the Amazing Space Helping Hand Award for the biggest transformation by a Lottery funded project. Over 1,500 acres of industrial wasteland has been transformed into a coastal park incorporating the National Wetland Centre for Wales, visitor attractions and a Cycle Trail which is part of the National Cycle Network and which covers some of the most beautiful scenery in South and West Wales. Mike O’Connor CBE, Director of the Millennium Commission said, “I am very proud that Millennium Commission funded projects won two out of the six Helping Hand Awards for the nation’s favourite Lottery projects. The National Cycle Network and the Millennium Coastal Park are both wonderful, wide-reaching community projects which fully deserved to be supported with Lottery money and I congratulate them both.” Thanks to everyone who has played or supported it, over £16 billion of National Lottery money has been raised for over 170,000 good causes, enhancing the lives of millions of people across the UK. For further details about the National Lottery Helping Hand Awards and the celebrations for the Lottery's 10th Birthday, visit www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk. -ends- Notes to Editors 1. The Millennium Commission was set up in 1994 to distribute funds from the National Lottery. Its income from the National Lottery ceased in August 2001 and its work will be complete in 2006. By the end of its life the Millennium Commission will have distributed over £2.2 billion of National Lottery funds. 2. The Millennium Commission is supporting the following programmes:
• Millennium Projects - 215 projects including community spaces, urban regeneration schemes, environmental projects and educational visitor centres on over 3,500 sites across the UK.
• Millennium Awards - 110 Awards Schemes which have distributed Millennium Award grants to over 32,000 individuals for community based projects. The Commission has established the Millennium Awards Trust, a £100 million permanent endowment fund that will ensure Millennium Awards will continue to be made in perpetuity. The fund is administered by the charity UnLtd.
• Millennium Festival - the largest programme of year-long celebrations ever mounted in the UK with 2,000 community festivals, which began on New Year’s Eve 1999 and culminated on New Year’s Eve 2000 with celebrations in 32 towns and cities across the UK.
• Millennium Encore Scheme - enabling more than 80,000 young people across the UK to experience performing arts productions.
• Urban Cultural Programme – a joint fund with Arts Council England for cultural projects in urban areas across the UK.
• The Millennium Experience at Greenwich and the National Programme.
Millennium Commission 8th November 2004
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