The New Opportunities Fund (NOF)

The New Opportunities Fund is a Lottery Distributor created to award grants to health, education and environment projects throughout the UK. Many of its grant programmes focus particularly on those in society who are most disadvantaged. NOF has funded the Visugate project through its digitisation programme. You can find out more about the New Opportunities Fund from the NOF website.

The NOF-Digitise programme.

NOF-Digitise brings together a wide range of partnerships representing the community and voluntary sectors, local authorities, libraries and archives, museums, further and higher education, and the private sector. The projects, which are designed to support lifelong learning under one of three broad themes; cultural enrichment, citizenship, and re-skilling, will transfer text, drawings, photos, maps, film and sound recordings into easily accessible electronic format. More information about the various projects is available from the NOF-Digitise website.