# NESTA announces over £3.5 million for UK innovators

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/07/02/nesta-announces-over-35-million-uk-innovators/
- Published: 2001-07-02T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is to make 46 new grants
worth over £3.5 million to support UK innovators and entrepreneurs. 
The awards 
go to an wide range of innovators – lone inventors, scientists, artists, educators,
and engineers. New ideas for products and projects are equally diverse, including
the application of radar mapping for breast screening, the use of laser technology
to remove chewing gum from our streets, a method of restoring natural colour to 
grey hair and a ‘children’s palace’ to nurture creative talent in young people. 
There is also a diverse mix of arts pioneers – individuals who want to experiment
and push the boundaries of a variety of art forms including opera, visual art, circus
performance, dance, music, theatre, performance art and photography.

Jeremy Newton, Chief Executive of NESTA, said: “The individuals we’re funding range
in age from their 20s to their 70s. What they all share in common has nothing to
do with wealth, fame or educational qualifications – it’s simply the sheer freshness
and ingenuity of their ideas. As well as offering vital lifelines to a wide range
of inventions for products and services, the awards also support a new generation
of architects, visual artists, composers, choregraphers, and performance artists.”

NESTA was set up by Act of Parliament in 1998. Its income, about £10 million a year,
comes from the interest from an endowment of £200 million from the National Lottery
that was committed to establish, what is, the UK’s first and only national endowment.
Its mission is to support and promote talent, innovation and creativity in science,
technology and the arts.

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