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Millennium Encore Scheme |
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The Millennium Encore Scheme was established in January 2002 with remaining funds from the Millennium Festival. Since then, over 70,000 young people of school age have had the chance to visit a range of professional performing arts productions, including theatre, musical theatre, opera, ballet, orchestra and ensemble music productions. |
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The Millennium Encore Scheme run by The National Association of Clubs for Young People (CYP) was a real success story. By the end of March 2003 CYP had enabled over 45,000 participants to attend performances UK-wide. For many of the young people that benefited from the scheme it was their first experience of the theatre, an experience that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
The total grant awarded to CYP was £1,320,569.
Grants totalling £215,250 were awarded to The Happy Days Children’s Charity for a scheme to enable some 8,000 special needs children UK-wide to attend professional performing arts productions. The grant was used for the provision of tickets, transport, subsistence, brochures and key carers. The total grant included two additional awards which enabled Happy Days to run a second and third phase of their scheme following on from the success of the initial scheme.
The Millennium Commission also awarded a grant of up to £1m to Arts & Business to act as a springboard for the Arts & Kids scheme, which aims to enable every young person in the UK to get involved with the arts. In the short term, the grant allowed young people to visit professional performing arts productions and it will also support efforts to generate millions of pounds of additional business investment in order to build an initiative with a potential legacy of up to twenty years.
Over 27,000 young people took part in the Arts & Kid visits programme. This is nearly three times the original target and was made possible by Arts & Business obtaining significant business investment.
For further information, please visit the NACYP, Happy Days or Arts & Business web sites. |
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