Throughout the year, we will be promoting a range of awareness days featured in our Equalities Calendar. These will include events, activities and information designed to celebrate diversity, raise awareness and support inclusion across our communities.
All updates will be shared on our website and Facebook page, so please look out for upcoming posts and opportunities to get involved.
For further information, or if you would like us to consider working with or promoting your organisation, please contact our Communications Officer: Jillian Davie
January
- International Day of Education — 24 January 2026
- Holocaust Memorial Day — 27 January 2026
February
- LGBT+ History Month — All of February
- Start of Ramadan — 17 February 2026 (Ramadan 17 Feb–18 Mar)
- Time to Talk Day — 5 February 2026
- National Apprenticeship Week — 9–15 February 2026
March
- Women’s History Month — All of March
- International Women’s Day — 8 March 2026
- International Wheelchair Day — 1 March 2026
- World Hearing Day — 3 March 2026
- Holi Festival Day — 24 March 2026
- Eid al‑Fitr (Ramadan ends) — 19 March 2026
- Disabled Access Day — 16 March 2026
- World Down Syndrome Day — 21 March 2026
April
May
- Deaf Awareness Week — May 4–10, 2026
- National Children Week – May 4 -10, 2026
- Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia  — 17 May 2026
June
August
- International Don’t Be a Bully Month — All of August (annual month‑long observance)
- International Youth Day — 12 August 2026
- Makaton Awareness Day — 28 August 2026
September
- World’s Alzheimer’s Month – All of August (annual month‑long observance)
- International Literacy Day – Tuesday 8th September
October
- Challenge Poverty Week — 5–11 October 2026
- Black History Month (UK) — All of October
- World Mental Health Day — 10 October 2026
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — 17 October 2026
- World Menopause Day — 18 October 2026