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The ChallengeAs announced February 1998Everyone in Britain will get the chance to take an active part in the millennium celebrations through The Challenge and The Festival — regional activities and events that will be exciting, involving, and leave a lasting legacy. The aim of The Challenge is to inspire and engage the nation around the vision that the millennium is ‘Time To Make A Difference’. Locally-based projects will bring people together to promote education, the environment, history and the arts, technology and sport. The Challenge will meet the expectation that the Millennium Experience should reach out to every corner of Britain. Local Challenge offices have been established in the nine regions of England, and in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, each staffed by a local Partnership Manager and an Education manager, with publicity and administration support. They will encourage people to take part in local millennium activities and the 12 key projects co-ordinated by the Challenge team based at The New Millennium Experience Company’s London office. Each key project ties into one of the 12 exhibition zones in the Dome — and the best of them will be on show at Greenwich in 2000. The projects already announced include: Oral History: a permanent digital database of people’s strongest memories, in partnership with The British Library and BBC Local Radio. The largest social history project yet, with recordings made throughout the country and at The Dome. Living on the Line: linking people and places on the Prime Meridian from Grimsby to Ghana. An education project developed by Oxfam to deepen understanding and bridge the differences between the developed and developing world. Our Town’s Story: the history of a different town or region will be told every day in The Dome. Children, students and people of all ages will be invited to develop the story of their town using performing and visual arts and creative technology. More projects will be announced during 1998. Together they will provide the people of the UK with opportunities:
Partnerships to deliver the Challenge programme are being set up with voluntary organisations churches and schools, local authorities, community groups, commercial organisations and business. The FestivalThe Millennium Festival programme has been established to carry through the Challenge to support regional and local millennium celebrations throughout the UK in the year 2000. A wide range of community celebrations, regional events and some Challenge projects will receive help with planning and promotion through support from the New Millennium Experience Company, National Lottery Distributors and private sector sponsorship. The £100 Millennium Festival fund is the result of a joint commitment by the National Lottery Distributors of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in partnership with The New Millennium Experience Company. The Millennium Festival will be co-ordinated by national committees in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Challenge programme events will be run alongside projects supported by the Arts Councils, Sports Councils, The Heritage Lottery Fund, the National Lottery Charities Board and the Millennium Commission. The Millennium Festival will deliver a celebration featuring and covering the whole of the UK that will be greater than the sum of its pans. It is proposed that funding will be targeted at two levels of activity:
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