Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell's keynote address to the 10th Annual Lottery Monitor conference at the British Museum. In a keynote address to the Lottery Monitor conference, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, Tessa Jowell announces that the public will get more say in where Lottery grants go under a pilot voting scheme.

The boundaries and the chairpersons of the five new health and social service Trusts have been announced by Health Minister, Paul Goggins, MP.
The objective of this call for proposals is to support dissemination and valorisation activities (particularly conferences and seminars) to encourage the transfer and use of results obtained by the Leonardo da Vinci programme and to promote the harmonisation of supply and demand on two to three subjects.
Minster Ahern has announceds grants totalling €1.03m for reconciliation projects. A wide range of Northern Ireland groups have benefitted from the generous scheme.

Education Minister, Maria Eagle, today revealed how £10million to develop extended schools across Northern Ireland will be allocated. Funding will be given directly to schools to spend as they see fit.

The Big Lottery Fund is today announcing a £25 million Research Programme which will fund medical and social research projects across the UK.
The DSD Voluntary and Community Unit are finalising details of the relaunch of the Local Community Fund. Further announcements are expected in July 2006.

Funding is now available from the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) for projects that focus on the study of social and labour market integration of ethnic minorities.

On 21st June 2006, the Fundraising Standards Board (FSB) is launching the new self-regulatory scheme for fundraising to UK charities. The FSB commences its recruitment drive with high profile advertising and marketing in the sector press, alongside a direct marketing campaign. Self-regulation will launch to the public in the Autumn.

The Big Lottery Fund is ploughing £5 million of National Lottery good cause money into the BBC-led Breathing Places project, to be launched on BBC TWO’s Springwatch programme today (Monday 12 June).