The New Opportunities Fund (Specification of Initiatives) Order 1998
The New Opportunities Fund may make grants to fund or assist in the funding of projects or make or enter into arrangements which are designed to give effect to initiatives concerned or connected with health, education and the environment specified to it by the Secretary of State. This Order specifies three such initiatives which apply throughout the United Kingdom. The specified initiatives are initiatives:—to provide facilities, services and advice to promote healthy living;to train teachers, staff working in school libraries and staff working in public library services to use information and communications technology to assist learning; and to make materials of an educational nature available in a digital form on such technology; andto provide activities outside school hours for children who attend school.