Cultural Celebrations and Awareness Day Calendar

The SU Cultural Celebrations and Awareness Day calendar highlights key dates of awareness and religious observance from a number of world faiths. It shows which of these we have plans to celebrate with specific events and activity this year, linked to our five student communities.

So, how can you get involved?

If there is an observance you believe should be included, or a cultural celebration or awareness day you'd like to see acknowledged, we want to hear from you! We can't plan and host events for every awareness day within our small team, but we can empower students to. All students are encouraged to plan and host events and activity, with support from our activities team. Simply submit an activity request or a campaign idea and we'll review it and provide the support or resources needed to make this a reality.

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Calendar

January

01 – New Year's Day
14 - Mahayana New Year
27 – Holocaust Memorial Day
29 - 12 (Feb) - Chinese Lunar New Year
30 – Lunar New Year (Year of the Snake)

February

01 - 28 - LGBT+ History Month
04 – World Cancer Day
06 - Time to Talk Day
10 - 16 Student Volunteering Week
12 - Yuan Xiao (Lantern Festival)
14 – Valentine's Day
28 - 30 (Mar) - Ramadan

March

01 - St David's Day
04 - Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day
05 - Ash Wednesday
05 - 17 (Apr) - Lent Begins
08 – International Women's Day
13 - Purim
14 – Holi
14 - University Mental Health Day
17 – St Patrick's Day
18 - 24 British Sign Language Week
18 - 24 Neurodiversity Celebration Week
30 - Mothers Day
31 - Eid al Fit

April

02 – World Autism Awareness Day
07 – World Health Day
12 - 20 Passover
14 - Vaisakhi
18 - Good Friday
20 - Easter Sunday

May

05 - 11 Deaf Awareness Week
12 – Vesakha Puja (Buddha Day)
12 - 18 - Menthal Health Awareness Week
21 – World Day for Cultural Diversity

June

01 – Shavuot
01 - 30 - Pride Month
01 - 30 - Men's Health Awareness Month
01 - 30 - Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month
01 - 30 - Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Month
04 – Hajj
06 - 10 - Eid Al Adha
15 – Father's Day
21 - World Humanist Day

July

04 – Independence Day

August

16 – Krishna Jayanti
19 – World Humanitarian Day

September

01 - 30 - World Dementia Awerness Day
01 - 30 - World Alzheimer's Month
01 - 30 Sickle Cell Awareness Month
02 – Milad un Nabi
15 - 21 National Inclusion Week
23 – Rosh Hashanah
28 - Confucius' Birthday

October

01 - 31 - UK Black History Month
01 - Yom Kippur
05 - World Teachers Day
09 - World Sight Day
10 – World Mental Health Day
21 - Diwali
31 – Halloween

November

01 - All Saints Day
05 – Guy Fawkes Day
11 – Remembrance Day
13 - 19 - Trans Awareness Week
20 - Trans Remembrance
19 – International Men's Day
22 - 22 (Dec) - UK Disability History Month
27 - Thanksgiving
30 - St Andrews Day
30 - 24 (Dec) - Advent

December

10 - Human Rights Day
14 - 22 – Hanukkah
25 – Christmas Day