2024 Awareness Days

Your approach

Here we share a selection of environment and sustainability awareness days with a focus on responsible business. These awareness days offer great opportunities to engage others in the vital work of protecting our planet, looking after your people, or giving back to your community. Use this calendar to bring awareness to the initiatives you are running in your organisation, or to begin a conversation on a topic you don’t engage with often.

These dates have been compiled by the Heart of the City team. Please note that unless they are ‘UN’ official dates, the dates can change year on year, so always refer to the current year’s calendar.

January February March
Dry January

Veganuary

4: World Braille Day

15: World Religion Day

15: Samaritans Brew Monday

17-23: Big Energy Saving Week

LGBT History Month

1-7: World Interfaith Harmony Week

1: Time to Talk Day

2: World Wetlands Day

4: World Cancer Day

5-11: National Apprenticeship Week

5-11: Race Equality Week

11: International Day of Women and Girls in Science

20: World Day of Social Justice

28-6: Eating Disorder Awareness Week

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

1: UN Zero Discrimination Day

3: World Wildlife Day

4-9: National Careers Week

4-10: WRAP Food Waste Action Week

8: International Women’s Day

16: Digital Clean Up Day

16: Disabled Access Day

18: Global Recycling Day

20: International Day of Happiness

21: International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

21: International Day of Forests

22: World Water Day

23: Earth Hour

31: International Transgender Day of Visibility

April May June
Stress Awareness Month

2: World Autism Awareness Day

5: Walk to Work Day

7: World Health Day

15: International Microvolunteering Day

22: Earth Day

24: Stop Food Waste Day

26-2: Lesbian Visibility Week

28: World Day for Safety and Health at Work

National Walking Month

1-7: Deaf Awareness Week

13-19: Mental Health Awareness Week

13-19: Learning at Work Week

17: International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

18: Global Accessibility Awareness Day

19: Endangered Species Day

20-26: Water Saving Week

Pride Month

30 Days Wild

1-7: Volunteers’ Week

3: World Bike Day

5: World Environment Day

8: World Oceans Day

10-16: Loneliness Awareness Week

10-16: Team Green Britain Bike Week

14: World Blood Donor Day

15: National Clean Air Day

16: World Refill Day

17-23: Refugee Week

19-26: Learning Disability Week

22: World Rainforest Day

26-2: London Climate Action Week

27: Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Day

July August September
Plastic Free July

6-12: Net Zero Week

15: World Youth Skills Day

26-4: Love Parks Week

30: International Friendship Day

 

1: Earth Overshoot Day

1: Cycle to Work Day

12: International Youth Day

19: World Humanitarian Day

Secondhand September

5: International Day of Charity

9-13: Pension Awareness Week

9-22: Fair Trade Fortnight

10: World Suicide Prevention Day

18: International Equal Pay Day

20-29: Great British Beach Clean

20: World Clean Up Day

22: World Car Free Day

23: Bi Visibility Day

23-29: National Inclusion Week

24: City Giving Day

27: Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

October November December
Go Sober for October

Black History Month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

1: World Vegetarian Day

1: International Day of Older Persons

4: No Disposable Cup Day

7: World Habitat Day

7-11: National Work Life Week

10: World Mental Health Day

11: National Coming Out Day

14-20: Recycle Week

18: World Menopause Day

Movember

1: World Vegan Day

4-8: International Stress Awareness Week

4-8: Talk Money Week

4-8: Trustees Week

11-15: Anti-Bullying Week

13: World Kindness Day

19: International Men’s Day

23-1: National Tree Week

TBD: Living Wage Week

3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

5: International Volunteers Day

7: Small Business Saturday

12: Christmas Jumper Day

Download the 2024 Awareness Dates Calendar.

 

This was last updated in June 2024 by Heart of the City. We’ve created these resources for individual SMEs to use. None of our content is to be adapted, reused or repurposed for commercial use.