There will be a collection of material relating to the Omagh bomb

It is the first allocation of money from a fund set up last year.

Victims' Minister Des Browne said the money would be channelled through government departments to where victims say they need it most.

These areas include trauma training and rehabilitation, advice services and counselling in schools.

Projects include helping children from a primary school in the lower Shankill who have been traumatised by the feud involving loyalist paramilitaries, which left several people dead.

There will also be a collection of material relating to the Omagh bomb to be used by injured victims, relatives, researchers and historians.

Other projects are being developed and the Office of First and Deputy First Ministers said more money would be made available in the coming months.