The Millennium Link is one of the biggest engineering projects ever undertaken by British Waterways. The Union Canal and the Forth & Clyde Canal were originally joined by a flight of locks. The Millennium Link project replaced the locks with a boat lift, the Falkirk Wheel.

The project launch was in October 1994, and it received a grant of £32 million from the Millennium Commission;^[1] the total cost of the project was £78 million.

Work started in 1999.

Partners in the Millennium Link project

• City of Edinburgh Council
• East Dunbartonshire Council
• Falkirk Council
• Glasgow City Council
• North Lanarkshire Council
• West Dunbartonshire Council
• West Lothian Council
• Millennium Commission
• Millennium Forest for Scotland
• British Waterways
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Central Scotland Countryside Trust
• East of Scotland European Partnership
• Strathclyde European Partnership
• Scottish Enterprise
• Edinburgh Canal Society
• Ratho Union Canal Society Association - now defunct
• Falkirk and District Canal Society based at Camelon, Falkirk
• Paisley Canal and Waterways Society
• Scottish Inland Waterways Association
• Forth and Clyde Canal Society
• Linlithgow Union Canal Society
• Seagull Trust
• List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom