Millenium Commission

Millennium Commission From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Question book-new.svg This article relies too much on references to primary sources. Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources. (April 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Millennium Commission logo 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 1 Composition 2 Closure 3 Examples of projects funded 4 Commissioners 4.1 Previous commissioners 5 References 6 External links Composition This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) 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]