Key dates and awareness days 2024 – 2025
A calendar of awareness days, weeks and months for anybody who wants to plan events and campaigns, or organise digitally in the workplace.
September
10 World Suicide Prevention Day
18 International Equal Pay Day
21 International Day of Peace
October
Black History Month
10 World Mental Health Day
18 World Menopause Day
November
10 Remembrance Sunday
11 Armistice Day
16 Disability History Month starts
18 – 24 Prospect / Bectu Union Week
20 Transgender Day of Remembrance
25 International Day for the elimination of violence against women
December
03 International Day of Persons with Disabilities
10 Human Rights Day
18 – 26 Chanukah
25 Christmas Day
26 Boxing Day
31 New Year’s Eve
2025
January
Dry January
Veganuary
04 World Braille Day
17 – 23 Big Energy Saving Week
24 International Day of Education
27 Holocaust Memorial Day
29 Chinese New Year
February
LGBT+ History Month
04 International Human Fraternity Day
05 – 11 Race Equality Week
11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
10 – 16 Heart Union’s Week (tbc)
14 Valentine’s Day
20 World Day of Social Justice
28 Ramadan starts
March
01 Zero Discrimination Day
08 International Women’s Day
14 Holi (Hindi)
15 International Day to Combat Islamophobia
21 International Day of Forests
22 World Water Day
22 Earth Hour (8.30pm – 9.30pm)
30 Eid al Fitr
31 International Transgender Day of visibility
April
Stress Awareness Month
20 Easter Sunday
12 – 25 Passover
28 International Workers’ Memorial Day
May
01 International Workers’ Day
05 – 11 Deaf Awareness Week
12 – 18 Mental Health Awareness Week
17 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT)
June
Pride Month
05 World Environment Day
08 World Oceans Day
20 World Refugee Day
22 Windrush Day
23 International Women in Engineering Day
July
Disability Pride Month
15 July World Youth Skills Day
August
12 International Youth Day
23 International Day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition