Key Dates
2024 Inclusion Calendar
Being mindful of diverse holidays, cultural events, religious celebrations, wellbeing awareness dates and associated training - is key to helping create an inclusive workplace.
The following information highlights important themes and dates each month and supports our diversity, cultural, equality and health and wellbeing initiatives. We hope you find it a useful resource to support one another and celebrate key dates.
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- Key dates below may be linked to associated free staff training sessions or events to support personal development for that month.
- These dates will be highlighted in blue and when clicked will open up the dedicated join us - staff training and events page with the session summary and registration details. It includes lots of equality, diversity, health and wellbeing training each month - so you are encouraged to regularly check what is on offer!
- Check out what training is on this month at Join us
March - Women's History Month
Awareness and events
Month - Women's History
Month - Prostate Cancer Awareness
Month - Ovarian Cancer Awareness
1 - Self-injury Awareness Day and International Wheelchair Day
4 to 8 - Scottish Apprenticeship Week
8 - International Women's Day
11 - Nutrition and Hydration Week
13 - No Smoking Day
15 - International Day to Combat Islamaphobia and World Sleep Day
18 to 24 - Debt Awareness Week and Neurodiversity Week
21 - Elimination of Racial Discrimination
23 - National Day of Reflection
26 - Purple Day /Epilepsy Awareness
31 - International Transgender Day of Visibility
Religious/Cultural
11 - Ramadan Begins (Islam)
25 - Holi (Hindu)
27 - Hola Mohalla begins (Sikh)
29 - Good Friday (Christian)
31 - Easter Sunday (Christian)
April - Stress Awareness Month
Awareness and events
Month - Autism Awareness
Month - Bowel Cancer Awareness
Month - Testicular Cancer Awareness
Month - Stress Awareness
2 - World Autism Awareness Day
7 - World Health Day
23 - Stephen Lawrence Day
26 - Lesbian Visibility Day
27 - International Girls in ICT Day
28 - World Day for Health and Safety at Work
Religious/Cultural
6 - Lailat al-Qadr (Islam)
10 - Eid al Fitr (Islam)
13 - Birth of the Khalsa (Vaisakhi) (Sikh)
23 - Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu)
23 - Beginning of Passover: Evening before (Judaism)
28 - Ninth Day of Ridvan (Baha'i)
May - National Walking Month
Awareness and events
Month - UK Walking
Month - Action on Stroke
Month - Celiac Awareness
5 - World Hand Hygiene Day
8 - UK National Day for Staff Networks
13 to 19 - Mental Health Awareness Week
15 - International Day of Families
17 - International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
18 - Global Accessibility Awareness Day
20 - Learning at Work Week
22 - International Day for Biological Diversity
31- World No Tobacco Day
Religious/Cultural
2 - Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikh)
6 - Yom HaShoah (Judaism)
23 - Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i)
June - LGBT Pride Month
Awareness and events
Month - LGBT Pride
Month - Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History
Month - Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Awareness
1 - Global Day of Parents
5 - World Environment Day
8 - Global Wellness Day
10 to 16 - Men's Health Week
10 to 16 - Carer's Week
12 - 18 - Diabetes Week
14 - World Blood Donor Day
15 - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
17 to 23 - BNF Healthy Eating Week
16 - Neurodiversity Pride Day
19 to 25 - Learning Disability Week
22 - UK National Windrush Day
28 - Stonewall Riots Anniversary
Religious/Cultural
16 - Eid al Adha (Islam)
July - Disablity Pride Month
Awareness and events
Month - UV Safety
Month - Challenging Age Perception
Month - Disability Pride
1 - 7 - Alcohol Awareness Week
11- World Population Day
14 - International Non-Binary People's Day
15 - World Youth Skills Day
17- World Day for International Justice
24 - Samaritans Awareness Day
28 - World Hepatitis Day
30 - International Day of Friendship
Religious/Cultural
9 - Martydom of the BAB (Baháʼí)
16 - Ashura (Islam)
21 - Dharma Day (Buddhism)
August - Health and Safety Month
Awareness and events
Month - Health and Safety
Month - Psoriasis Awareness
1 - UK Cycle to Work Day
1 to 7 - World Breastfeeding Awareness Week
6 to 11 - Know Your Numbers Week
9 - International Day of the World's Indigenout People
12 - International Youth Day
19 - World Humanitarian Day
22 - Commemorating Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief
23 - Rememberance of Slave Trade and it's Abolition
Religious/Cultural
26 - Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu)
September - World Alzheimer's Month
Awareness and events
Month - World Alzheimer's
Month - World Dementia Awareness
Month - Pain Awareness
5 - International Day of Charity
8 - International Literacy Day
10 - World Suicide Prevention Day
18 - International Equal Pay Day
19 - Youth Mental Health Day
23 to 29 - National Eye Health Awareness Week
23 - Bi Visibility Day, International Day of Sign Languages and UK National Incusion Week begins
Religious/Cultural
15 - Mawlid al-Nabi (Islam)
17 - Anant Chaturdashi (Hindu)
October - Black History Month
Awareness and events
Month - Stoptober
Month - Breast Cancer Awareness
Month - Down Syndrome Awareness
Month - Cholesterol Awareness
Month - Menopause Awareness
Month - UK Black History
Month - Global Diversity
1- International Day of Older Persons
2 - International Day of Non-Violence
8 - World Dyslexia Day
9 to 15 - Baby Loss Awareness Week
10 -World Mental Health Day
17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
18 - World Menopause Day and International Pronouns Day
Religious/Cultural
31 - Diwali begins (Hindu, Sikh and Jain)
November - Men's Health Month
Awareness and events
Month - Movember - Men's Health Awareness
Month - Lung Cancer Awareness
Month - Pancreatic Cancer Awareness
4 -9 - National Talk Money Week
8 - Intersex Day of Solidarity
11 - Armistice Day
12 - Remembrance Sunday
13 - World Kindness Day
17 - International STAND UP to Bullying Day
18- 24 - Self-Care Week
19 - International Men's Day
20 - Transgender Day of Remembrance
25 - 16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence
Religious/Cultural
15 - Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev (Sikh)
27 - Gurpurab (Sikh)
December - International Human Rights Month
Awareness and events
Month - Aids Awareness
Month - Universal Month for Human Rights
1- World Aids Day
2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 - International Day for Persons with Disabilities
10 - International Human Rights Day
18 - International Migrants Day
20 - International Human Solidarity Day
Religious/Cultural
25 - Christmas Day (Christian)
