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Month / date Events Activity Partner

January

1 New Years Day

5 Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh

6 Epiphany

12 Mahayana

14 Makar Sankranti

15 World Religion Day

26 Young Carer’s Awareness Day

February

All month LGBT History Month

All month National Heart Month

All month Volunteering Month

National Time to Talk Day – to get talking and break the silence around mental health problems

3 Tinnitus Awareness Week (start)

6 International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM

National Hate Crime Week in Greater Manchester (starts)

7 Safer Internet Day

9 Tinnitus Awareness Week (ends)

12 National Hate Crime Week in Greater Manchester (ends)

28 Shrove Tuesday

14 Tinnitus Awareness Week (end)

National Hate Crime Week (end)

15 Parinirvana (Nirvana Day)

27 Fair Trade Week

March

1 St David’s Day

Ash Wednesday

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Month / date Events Activity Partner

Lent (start)

8 International Women’s Day

No Smoking Day

10 Disabled Access Day (starts)

11 Purim (starts)

12 Disabled Access Day (ends)

Fair Trade Week (ends)

Purim (ends)

17 St Patrick’s Day

21 International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination

24 Red Nose/ Sports Relief

April

Depression Awareness Week – varies in month

help to get rid of mental health stigma, get people talking about depression and raise vital funds to allow Friends in Need to keep growing and helping more people through their recovery

4 Rava Navami

7 World Health Day

8 World Roma Day

9 Palm Sunday

10 Pesach (starts)

14 Vaisakhi

Good Friday

15 Lent (ends)

16 Easter Sunday

18 Pesach (ends)

23 Holocaust Memorial Day (start)

St Georges Day

24 Holocaust Memorial Day (ends)

28 International Workers Memorial Day

29 World Tai Chi Day

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Month / date Events Activity Partner

May

All month General commitment to equalities

1 May Day

8 – 14 Mental Health Awareness Week – to educate the public about mental health issues and to promote better mental health … this years focus living with change

10 Vesak

13 World Fair Trade Day

Lag B’Omer

14 Mental Health Awareness Week (ends)

Lag B’Omer (ends)

15 Dementia Awareness Week (start)

17 International Day Against Homophobia

21 World Day For Cultural Diversity

Dementia Awareness Week (end)

27 Ramadan (start)

30 Shavuot (start)

June

All month Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month (GRTHM)

Cancer Awareness Month

1 Shavuot (ends)

5 World Environment Week

Men’s Health Week – varies in month

to raise awareness of preventable health issues and encourage men and boys to seek professional advice for health-related problems

12 Carers Week (start)

19 Learning Disability Week (start)

Refugee Week (start)

20 Litha (Summer Solstice)

23 National Volunteers Week (start)

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Month / date Events Activity Partner

25 Refugee Week (end)

Learning Disability Week (ends)

Ramadan (ends)

Eid Ul Fitr

29 National Volunteer Week (end)

July

3 Tisha B’Av

16 Disability Awareness Day

17 National Youth Work Week (start)

22 Remembering Srebrenica

23 Birthday of Haile Sealssie I

August

1 Tisha B’Av (ends)

7 Raksha Bandhan

11 National Youth Work Week (end)

12 International Youth Day

18 Paryushana Parvarambha

25 Manchester Pride (start)

25 Manchester Pride (to be confirmed)

30 Hajj (start)

31 Eid Ul Adha (start)

September

All month World Alzheimer’s Month

Recovery (drugs/alcohol) month

1 Eid Ul Adha (end)

4 Hajj (end)

10 World Suicide Prevention Day

21 International day of peace

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Month / date Events Activity Partner

23 Bi visibility day

20 Rosh Hashanah (start)

21 International Day of Peace

Narvarati (start)

Al-Hijira Islamic New Year

22 Rosh Hashana (end)

29 Navarati (end)

Yom Kippur (start)

30 Dussera

Yom Kippur (ends)

October

All Month Black History Month (BHM)

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

1 Ashura

3 Dyslexia Awareness week (start)

4 Sukkot (start)

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World Mental Health Day – to raise public awareness about mental health issues

11 Shemini Atzeret (start)

Sukkot (end)

12 Simchat Torah (start)

Shemini Atzeret (end)

13 Simchat Torah (end)

19 Diwali (start)

23 Diwali (end)

31 Halloween

November

1 – 30 November Movember: Men’s Health Awareness Month – to raise vital funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer

2 All Soul’s day

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Month / date Events Activity Partner

National Youth Work Week

National Stress Awareness Day – to develop greater understanding of stress and offer individuals and organisations access to proven coping strategies and sources of help

3 Diwali (end)

9 Healthy College Week

11 Armistice Day

12 Remembrance Sunday

Children in Need

Interfaith Week

13 Anti Bullying Week (2017 dates to be confirmed)

19 International Men’s Day

20 Universal Children’s Day

Transgender Day of Remembrance

22 Disability History Month (start)

25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

30 St Andrews Day

December

1 World AIDS Day

Milad un Nabi

3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Advent Sunday

6 Mikulas (St Nicholas Day)

10 International Human Rights Day

12 Milad un Nabi

Hannukha (start)

20 Hannukha (end)

22 Disability History Month (end)

25 Christmas Day

31 New Year’s Eve

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