News

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06 June 2025

UNESCO Designations celebrate success at the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2025

UNESCO sites in England showed that they are the 'best of the best' places to visit…

06 June 2025

New Royal Mail stamps celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory, part of the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site

On 22 June 1675, King Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

05 June 2025

Forth Bridge UNESCO World Heritage Site management plan update consultation open

The Forth Bridge was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015. Now that the initial management plan for the site has reached the end of the first decade of inscription…

03 June 2025

Loughborough Professor becomes the first-ever UNESCO Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability

Loughborough University’s Professor Mike Wilson has been appointed as UNESCO’s first ever Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability.

30 May 2025

UKNC Chief Executive and Secretary-General speaks, and joins expert panel, at Culture in Crisis event at St Margaret's Church, Westminster UNESCO World Heritage Site

James Bridge, UKNC Chief Executive and Secretary-General…

28 May 2025

UK Participation in UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) - Meeting of the IHP Bureau and upcoming Anniversary Events

Last month, Professor Harry Dixon, Jo Savage, and Max Polya-Vitry were at UNESCO HQ representing the UK at the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme’s (IHP’s) 64th Bureau meeting.

27 May 2025

UK Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO visits Gracehill in Northern Ireland to present the village with its official certificate of World Heritage inscription

Earlier this month, Anna Nsubuga, UK Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO visited Gracehill in Co.

23 May 2025

UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science celebrates 20th anniversary with international ‘Positive Water Futures for All’ symposium, Eddleston Water Project fieldtrip and Flow exhibition

The Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science (CWLPS), the UK’s only UNESCO Category 2 Centre…

23 May 2025

Climate Change & UNESCO Heritage visits North Devon UNESCO Biosphere as project delivery moves towards completion

For the final cross-project event of the Climate Change & UNESCO Heritage (CCUH) project, colleagues from across the network convened in Barnstaple for a two-day programme of presentations…

22 May 2025

'Seeds of Hope for a Better Future' - UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) 2025 Competition

The UNESCO UK Associated Schools Programme Network (ASPnet) Seeds of Hope for a Better Future project supports UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goals and ASPnet’s key action areas - promoting peace…

21 May 2025

UNESCO launches new Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme Water Information Network System (IHP-WINS) Platform

IHP-WINS is UNESCO’s new open-access platform that strengthens the sharing, integration…

21 May 2025

Start a new chapter this autumn with an online tutored creative writing course led by the National Centre for Writing based in Norwich UNESCO City of Literature

Whether you're working on fiction or non-fiction, genre-specific or general projects…