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SHAPE YOUR FUTURE BY PROTECTING THE PAST!

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Welcome to the World Heritage Youth Ambassadors!

“Working to empower young people through World Heritage to be transformational in their own lives and the world around them”.
The World Heritage Youth Ambassadors is a program that helps young people age 13-25 discover who they are, who they want to be, and be proud to shout out about it. Using the World’s most special places, World Heritage Sites, we work with any young person to develop themselves, connect with their communities, and celebrate their place within the world they live in.
World Heritage Youth Ambassadors Bath Roman Baths
World Heritage Youth Ambassadors Blaenavon Ironworks

What We Do

The Youth Ambassadors offer a wide range of activity to get involved in, whatever your age. You don’t need to live in or near a World Heritage Site to participate! Find out more below about our workshops, youth ambassadors clubs across the UK, or our online activities.
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Get Involved

Join WHYAMS, Apply for a Traineeship or Work in Partnership with us!
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Find a Site

WYHAMS will help young people aged 13-25 to explore World Heritage in a local, UK and Global context. This project will help Young People understand not only the historical context of World Heritage, but the UK context, the processes relating to the management of World Heritage, and how it can make a lasting impact on local communities.

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🏊FREE SWIMMING SESSIONS ARE BACK🏊

Our free swimming sessions are back, by popular demand on Friday 31st May at Pontypool Active Living Centre in partnership with Torfaen Leisure Trust

The session will run from 10am-11am, with transport provided, leaving Workmen's Hall at 9.30am.

These sessions are open to all, with the use of the learner pool for babies and toddlers also included.
Booking is essential, please contact sophie.johnson@blaenavontowncouncil.co.uk to book your space.

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Our Sites

World Heritage Youth Ambassadors Blaenavon

Blaenavon

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. UNESCO recognised that “The area around Blaenavon bears eloquent and exceptional testimony to the pre-eminence of South Wales as the World’s major producer of iron and coal in the nineteenth century.

Bath

UNESCO added The City of Bath as a 'cultural site' to its World Heritage List in 1987. Bath is included because of its Roman Remains, 18th Century Architecture, 18th Century Town Planning, Social Setting, Hot Springs and Landscape Setting.

World Heritage Youth Ambassadors Bath

Interested in becoming a whyams site?

We have the aspiration for every World Heritage Site in the UK to have World Heritage Youth Ambassadors!  If you have young people interested in World Heritage, you can accreit them through our scheme. Watch out for more information about becoming a site in 2025. 

World Heritage Youth Ambassadors Giants Causeway
World Heritage Youth Ambassadors Hadrians Wall

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall is an exceptional example of a linear Roman frontier, encompassing an extensive archaeological landscape which reflects the way resources were deployed in the north western part of the Roman Empire and which displays the unifying character of the Roman Empire, through its common culture.