What kind of projects did Millennium Award winners do?
The range of projects carried out by Millennium Award winners is huge, from setting up youth groups on inner city estates, to leading neighbourhood clean-up projects and establishing schemes to tackle racism. Many of the projects produced leaflets, training aids and publications. The Commission’s collection of these was transferred to the Victoria and Albert Museum. How did Millennium Awards work? The Millennium Commission worked with established charities and other grant giving organisations known as Award Partners. Each Award Partner managed their own Award Scheme and distributed the Millennium Awards. The Commission worked with over 100 Award Partners. By working with these organisations, Award winners were able to get the support, knowledge and expertise they needed to complete their Millennium Award project. To find out more about the schemes which were run, go to the searchable database. What is the Millennium Awards Fellowship? When an Award winner successfully completed their p
