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The Youth Work Excellence Awards are an opportunity to recognise and celebrate outstanding youth work projects, youth workers and those involved in youth work across Wales.
The awards are relevant for individual youth workers, youth work support workers, volunteers, managers, projects or groups for work that is delivered in youth work settings or in other settings using a youth work approach.
Each youth work organisation or local authority youth service can submit no more than one nomination in each of the categories and no more than three nominations across all categories.
There are nine award categories, including outstanding youth worker, outstanding volunteer in a youth work setting and equality and diversity in a youth work setting.
Closing date for nominations: 30 September 2025