Annex B
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FUND PROGRAMMES
OUT OF
SCHOOL HOURS
ACTIVITIES
This initiative provides £200 million to
create new and sustainable out of school hours childcare places,
£205 million to help provide out of school hours learning
activities involving half of all secondary schools and a quarter
of all primary schools and £20 million to projects combining
both childcare and education. In addition, we have recently agreed
a £25.5 million extension to the learning programme to fund
learning projects run by school sport co-ordinators. The original
funding for learning activities has now been committed to projects
in 11,000 schools. We expect to have committed all of the childcare
funding by the end of 2003 and have already funded a total of
495,000 childcare places across the UK.
TRAINING IN
INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
(ICT)
This £250 million initiative includes £230
million for ICT training for teachers and school librarians and
£20 million for training for public library staff. Involvement
in the initiative has exceeded expectations with over 487,000
teachers and school librarians signing up for training and an
additional 35,000 public library staff being trained by the end
of March 2004.
DIGITISATION OF
LEARNING MATERIALS
We have £50million available to digitise
learning materials so that they are available, free of charge,
over the Internet. In March 2003, we launched the "gateway"
www.EnrichUK.net to the 150 projects that we have funded
across the UK.
COMMUNITY ACCESS
TO LIFELONG
LEARNING
The theme of this £200 million initiative
is to encourage more adults into learning through using new technology.
Half of the funding is supporting 867 projects based at ICT learning
centres; the other £100 million is providing funding for
the People's Network—providing PCs and the Internet at all
of the UK's 4,000 public libraries.
CHILDCARE
This initiative, launched in 2001, provides
£198.5 million to extend our earlier out of school hours
childcare programme. The funding will be used to improve the quality
of childcare across the UK, for example by funding the building
of neighbourhood nurseries and the provision longer-term support
to projects in disadvantaged areas, allowing parents to return
to work or training.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR PE AND
SPORT
We launched this, our largest ever, funding
programme in each of the UK countries in 2001-02. £750.75
million is available to transform sporting facilities (and, in
Scotland, also activities) for young people and for the community
generally, including up to £50 million for outdoor adventure
facilities. The first new buildings and facilities are now nearing
completion with several thousand more projects in the process
of being developed.
ACTIVE ENGLAND
Active England aims to encourage innovative
approaches that will begin to drive up physical activity levels
and sports participation rates in England. Funding for the programme
is £108.5 million of which £99 million will initially
be distributed to the nine regions, and £9.5 million, of
the total allocation of £108.5 million, will be retained
for possible cross-regional and innovative projects, as well as
for evaluation and monitoring requirements.
ACTIVITIES FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE
(ENGLAND, WALES
AND NORTHERN
IRELAND)
We have £44.25 million for outdoor and
other challenging activities for young people. The aim is to support
these activities with advice and guidance, helping young people
to bridge the gap between school and work, training or further
education.
SPLASH EXTRA
(ENGLAND AND
WALES)
£9.6 million was made available to contribute
to the Government's drive to tackle street crime by funding initiatives
that provided youngsters most at risk of offending or re-offending,
and who live in areas that experience the highest indices of street
crime, with a wide range of activities during the holidays of
2002-03.
POSITIVE ACTIVITIES
FOR YOUNG
PEOPLE
The New Opportunities Fund and the Department
for Education and Skills joined forces with the Youth Justice
Board, Home Office and Department for Culture, Media and Sport,
to combine existing Connexions Summer Plus and Splash schemes
and launch a new Positive Activities for Young People scheme from
the summer of 2003 to give greater help and support to vulnerable
young people. We contributed £12.5 million to the first year
of this programme, and expect to be in a position to contribute
similar amounts to years two and three. This programme is providing
a broad range of activities to help divert young people from taking
part in criminal activity, as well as helping those at risk of
being socially excluded, by giving them a chance to fulfil their
potential.
HEALTHY LIVING
CENTRES
We are distributing £300 million to help
set up a network of health living centres across the UK which
will promote the health and general well-being of the most deprived
members of the population. In total, 349 projects have been launched
bringing a wide spectrum of new services—from smoking cessation
sessions to community cafes to "one stop shop" health
and community centres—to local communities.
LIVING WITH
CANCER
We have distributed £150 million to projects
that promote cancer prevention, improve access to screening and
treatment and help individuals and families cope with the impact
of cancer in their lives. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland
the majority of the funding has been used to make over 700 grants
for cancer machinery, including new MRI scanners, linear accelerators
and breast-screening equipment.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR HEALTH
We have developed a number of programmes under
this £213.5 million initiative to reduce the burden of coronary
heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Across the UK we are also investing in modern,
up to date scanners and other types of equipment to deal with
the fact that some areas have had to offer a far worse service
to patients, because equipment was not available or was old, slow
or unreliable. Our grants are enabling patients to get seen faster,
reducing the time spent waiting for diagnosis, and helping people
receive first class treatment. In Scotland, we have also supported
nine major building projects for cancer care facilities.
In England, the school fruit pilots programme
and five a day local community initiatives are backing up the
Government's campaign to increase fruit and vegetable consumption.
Our three newest programmes will be launched
in England this summer in partnership with British Heart Foundation,
and will deliver real improvements in care and treatment for people
affected by heart disease. These new programmes will provide funding
for cardiac rehabilitation, better support for people suffering
from heart failure, and will provide up to 2,300 defibrillators
to give help to people who suffer a cardiac arrest outside hospital.
PALLIATIVE CARE
£84 million is available to provide palliative
care and support and information services for adults and children
with cancer and other life-threatening conditions.
GREEN SPACES
AND SUSTAINABLE
COMMUNITIES
We are working with twelve award partners across
the UK to distribute £130 million to schemes that will help
communities—particularly disadvantaged communities—understand,
improve or care for their environment. This includes £15
million specifically for the Scottish Land Fund. The award partners
fund new projects every week—currently £80 million
has been allocated to over 2,000 projects.
TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES
Through our transforming communities initiative,
we have £50 million for our transforming waste programme—for
reuse, recycling and composting projects; £50 million for
our renewable energy programme—for biomass power stations
and offshore wind; and £50 million for the transforming your
space programme—for projects enabling local people to improve
their local environments. In Scotland, £10 million will be
used for projects which explore new kinds of community drug rehabilitation
through our "better off" programme.
FAIR SHARE
TRUST
Part of the joint "fair share" initiative
with the Community Fund, the fair share trust is designed to make
Lottery funding more readily available to disadvantaged communities,
which so far have not received their fair share of Lottery funding.
£50 million is being invested to provide grants to targeted
communities within 70 local authority areas across the UK for
up to 10 years.
AWARDS FOR
ALL
NOF is contributing £60 million for small
grants up to £5,000 for local groups. This funding is distributed
by the Awards for All schemes in each UK country, which involve
most of the other Lottery Distributors.
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