The New Opportunities Fund awards National Lottery grants
to education, health and environment projects throughout the UK, aiming to improve
quality of life, with a particular focus on people who are most disadvantaged.
The Fund’s £50
million UK-wide nof-digitise programme is
designed to bring the learning material and resources currently contained in
museums, galleries, libraries, archives and universities directly into homes
and communities.
The Fund awarded grants to 150 organisations across the UK,
large and small, to convert a huge variety of material into digital format. The
range of material digitised includes archaeology, maritime, architecture, fine
art, social and oral history. In Scotland, £6 million is being used to
create a ‘virtual communities bank’ of internet learning. Projects
can be accessed through www.EnrichUK.net web
portal. www.nof.org.uk
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