New Opportunities Fund

The People's Lottery Whitepaper (Cm3709) published by Dept for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) 21st July 1997, outlined the creation of a New Opportunities Fund to improve Health - network of healthy living centres, Education - ICT training and support for 500,000 teachers and 10,000 public library staff plus establishment of out of school hours activities and eventually the Environment. Included the establishment of NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) - later to become FutureLab

When	Jul 21, 1997
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The archive is directed and maintained by Richard Millwood of Core Education UK supported by Sandra Crapper, Maureen Gurr, Margaret Cox and Nick Rushby.

The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) were archive sponsors in 2008 and Becta were sponsors in 2009.

Much of the archive was gathered in the years 1990 - 2006 by Prof Stephen Heppell with Richard Millwood and stored at Ultralab at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford.

In its early days it was catalogued by Greta Mladenova and in 2006 Rex Wingate helped to organise the items in store.

More recently, in 2011, Doreen Wright, Nick Rushby and Chris Monk have been helping catalogue the materials and develop policies.