2024 Autumn term
Popular autumn events include Halloween, Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day, Children in Need and Christmas. Explore our ideas for more autumn events.
September
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DATE |
EVENT |
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1 |
Jane Hissey (b. 1952) |
Author-Illustrator |
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2 |
Zero Waste Week (2-6 Sept 2024) |
National week |
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4 |
Joan Aiken (b. 1924) 100 years |
Author |
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7 |
Eric Hill (b. 1927) |
Author |
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13 |
International Chocolate Day Roald Dahl Day (b. 1916) Rutland Day |
Food day Author County day |
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16 |
Julia Donaldson (b. 1948) |
Author |
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19 |
Hermione Granger (b. 1979) 45 years Talk Like a Pirate Day |
Literary character |
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20 |
British Food Fortnight (20 Sept to 6 Oct 2024) |
Food week (UK) |
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22 |
Michael Faraday (b. 1791) Derbyshire Day September equinox 2024 (UK) |
Chemist County day Season |
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25 |
Monmouthshire Day World School Milk Day 2024 |
County day Food day |
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26 |
George Gershwin (b. 1898) |
Composer |
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27 |
Campaign
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29 |
Westmorland Day |
County day |
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October
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DATE |
EVENT |
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October |
Black History Month International School Library Month National Pizza Month |
Campaigns Food month |
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1 |
Lincolnshire Day International Coffee Day National Vegetarian Week (1-7 Oct 2024) |
County day Food day/week
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2 |
Rosh Hashana (2-4 Oct 2024) |
Jewish celebration |
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3 |
National Poetry Day 2024 – 30th anniversary, theme: counting |
Literacy |
See our PTA poems |
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5 |
Observance |
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6 |
Grandparents’ Day 2024 |
Grandparents’ Day |
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10 |
World Porridge Day |
Food day |
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11 |
World Egg Day Yom Kippur (11-12 Oct 2024) |
Food day Jewish celebration |
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14 |
National Baking Week (14-20 Oct 2024) Recycle Week (14-20 Oct 2024) |
UK food week Awareness |
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16 |
World Food Day Sukkot (16-23 Oct 2024) |
Food day Jewish celebration |
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17 |
Event |
Literacy fundraisers | |
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19 |
Oxfordshire Day |
County day |
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21 |
Alfred Nobel (b. 1833) 190 Apple Day (UK) National Honey Day (UK) |
Chemist Food day |
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22 |
National Nut Day |
Food day |
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23 |
Simchat Torah (23-25 Oct 2024) |
Jewish celebration |
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25 |
Pablo Picasso (b. 1881) Northamptonshire Day World Pasta Day Global Champagne Day 2024 |
Artist County day Food days
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Step-by-step: Art exhibition
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26 |
Essex Day |
County day |
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28 |
UK Sausage Week (28 Oct to 3 Nov 2024) |
Fook week |
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31 |
Halloween Diwali (31 Oct to 1 Nov 2024) |
Observance Hindu holiday |
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November
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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1 |
All Saint’s Day Diwali (31 Oct to Nov 1 2024) World Vegan Day |
Christian Hindu holiday Food day |
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2 |
All Soul’s Day |
Christian |
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5 |
Bonfire Night |
Observance |
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7 |
Marie Curie (b. 1867) |
Physicist |
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11 |
Remembrance Day/Armistice Day National School Meals Week (11-15 Nov 2024) Anti-Bullying Week (11-15 Nov 2024) |
Observance UK food week Awareness |
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12 |
Odd Socks Day 2024 |
Awareness |
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14 |
World Diabetes Day |
Awareness |
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15 |
Children in Need 2024 (appeal show date) |
Campaign |
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19 |
Campaign |
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20 |
Edwin Hubble (b. 1889) 135 years |
Astronomer |
Step-by-step: Stargazing and space fundraiser |
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24 |
Frances Hodgson Burnett (b. 1849) 175 years Scott Joplin (b. 1868) |
Author Composer |
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25 |
Georgia O’Keeffe (b. 1887) |
Artist |
Step-by-step: Art exhibition |
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26 |
Charles M Schulz (b. 1922) |
Author |
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27 |
Lancashire Day |
County day |
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28 |
Bedfordshire/Caernarfonshire Day |
County days |
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29 |
C S Lewis (b. 1898) |
Author |
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30 |
St Andrew’s Day |
National day (Scotland) |
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December
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DATE |
EVENT |
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LINKS |
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2 |
English Breakfast Day |
Food day |
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5 |
UN initiative |
Volunteering is good for you | |
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10 |
Ada Lovelace (b. 1815) |
Mathematician and writer |
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12 |
Christmas Jumper Day 2024 |
Awareness |
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15 |
Wear A Christmas Hat Day 2023 (2024 date TBC) |
Campaign |
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16 |
Ludwig van Beethoven (b. 1770) |
Composer |
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21 |
December solstice (2024) |
Season |
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22 |
Mick Inkpen (b. 1952) |
Author |
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24 |
Christmas Eve |
Observance |
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25 |
Christmas Day First day of Hanukkah 2024 (Last day of Hanukkah (2 Jan 2025)) Sir Isaac Newton (b. 1642) |
Bank holiday Jewish celebration Physicist |
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26 |
Boxing Day Charles Babbage (b. 1791) |
Bank holiday Computer Scientist |
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30 |
Rudyard Kipling (b. 1865) |
Author |
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31 |
New Year’s Eve |
Observance |
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2025 Spring term
Popular spring term events include Burns Night, Lunar New Year, Pancake Day, Valentine’s Day, Leap Day, World Book Day, Mother’s Day, Comic/Sport Relief, Easter and April Fool’s Day. Discover more spring term ideas.
January
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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1 |
New Year’s Day |
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2 |
New Year’s Day (Scotland bank holiday) 2025 |
Bank holiday (Scotland) |
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3 |
J R R Tolkien (b. 1892) |
Author |
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5 |
Wassail |
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7 |
RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch (7 Jan to 14 Feb 2025) |
Campaign |
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8 |
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) |
Physicist |
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13 |
Michael Bond (b. 1926) |
Author |
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18 |
A A Milne (b. 1882) Arthur Ransome (b. 1884) Raymond Briggs (b. 1934) |
Authors |
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20 |
Activist |
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24 |
RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch (24-26 Jan 2025) |
Campaign |
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25 |
Burns Night |
Local observance (Scotland) |
Step-by-step: Ceilidh |
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27 |
Lewis Carroll (b. 1832) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1756) |
Author Composer |
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28 |
International LEGO Day |
Awareness |
Hold your own keyring fundraiser |
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29 |
Lunar New Year 2025 (Snake) |
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February
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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February |
LGBT+ History Month (UK) |
Awareness |
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1 |
National Storytelling Week (1-9 Feb 2025) Let's Create Art – replacing Children’s Art Week (1-28 Feb 2025) |
Campaign Events |
Step-by-step: Art exhibition |
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3 |
Children’s Mental Health Week (3-9 Feb 2025) |
Awareness |
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6 |
Time To Talk Day 2025 |
Awareness |
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7 |
Charles Dickens (b. 1812) NSPCC’s Number Day 2025 |
Author Campaign Awareness |
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10 |
Lucy Cousins (b. 1964) Student Volunteering Week (10-16 Feb 2025) |
Author-Illustrator |
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11 |
International Day of Women and Girls in Science Safer Internet Day 2025 |
Campaign Event |
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12 |
Judy Blume (b. 1938) Charles Darwin (b. 1809) Tu Bishvat (12-13 Feb 2025) |
Author Biologist Jewish celebration |
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14 |
Valentine’s Day International Book Giving Day |
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15 |
Galileo Galileo (b. 1564) |
Polymath |
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17 |
Random acts of kindness day |
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19 |
Nicolaus Copernicus (b. 1473) |
Astronomer |
Step-by-step: Stargazing and space fundraiser |
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21 |
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23 |
George Frideric Handel (b. 1685) Shropshire Day |
Composer County day |
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28 |
Wear Red Day 2025 Ramadan starts 2025 (28 Feb to 30 Mar) |
Awareness Muslim |
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29 |
Leap Year (2028) |
March
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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1 |
St David’s Day Frederic Chopin (b. 1810) 340 years Ron Weasley (b. 1980) |
National day (Wales) Composer Literary character |
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2 |
Dr. Suess (b. 1904) |
Author Event (UK) |
Request donations of ‘old stuff’ (unwanted items) for tombola prizes, on National Old Stuff Day! |
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4 |
Antonio Vivaldi (b. 1678) Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) 2025 |
Composer Christian |
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5 |
Cornwall Day (St Piran’s Day) |
County day |
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6 |
Michaelangelo (b. 1475) 550 years World Book Day 2025 |
Artist Event |
Step-by-step: Art exhibition |
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7 |
British Science Week a 10 day celebration (7-16 Mar 2025) |
Campaign |
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8 |
Campaign |
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13 |
Purim (13-14 Mar 2025) |
Jewish celebration |
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14 |
Albert Einstein (b. 1879) Holi (14 Mar 2025) |
Theoretical physicist Hindu holiday |
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17 |
St Patrick’s Day Neurodiversity Celebration Week (17-23 Mar 2025) |
Bank holiday (Northern Ireland) Awareness |
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20 |
County Durham Day March Equinox |
County day Season |
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21 |
*Comic Relief (Red Nose Day) 2025 World Poetry Day The Great British Spring Clean (21 Mar to 6 Apr 2025) |
UK charity Literacy Keep Britain Tidy campaign |
See our PTA poems |
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24 |
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel – previously The Big Pedal (24 Mar to 4 Apr 2025) |
Campaign |
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25 |
World Maths Day 2025 |
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26 |
Purple Day 2025 |
Campaign |
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27 |
Dick King-Smith (b. 1922) |
Author |
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28 |
Wear A Hat Day 2025 |
Campaign |
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29 |
West Riding Day Piano Day 2025 |
County day
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30 |
World Bipolar Day Vincent Van Gogh (b. 1853) Mother’s Day (UK) 2025 Daylight Savings Time starts (2025) Eid al-Fitr (30-31 Mar 2025) |
Awareness Artist Mother’s Day (UK) Islamic celebration |
Step-by-step: Art exhibition |
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31 |
J S Bach (b. 1685) 340 years Schools' Football Week (31 Mar to 6 Apr 2025) |
Composer Sports week |
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Mar |
*Sport Relief is evolving into a year-round celebration linked with major sport events and partnerships throughout the year. |
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April
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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April |
National Pet Month (1 Apr to 1 May 2025) |
Campaign
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1 |
April Fool’s Day |
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2 |
Hans Christian Andersen (b. 1805) 220 years |
Author |
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Observance |
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12 |
Passover (Pesach) (12-20 Apr 2025) |
Jewish celebration |
Cultural celebrations |
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15 |
Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) Cressida Cowell (b. 1966) International Micro-volunteering Day |
Artist/Inventor Author & Children’s Laureate (2019-2021) Event |
Step-by-step: Art exhibition |
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16 |
Orkney Day |
County day |
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18 |
Good Friday 2025 |
Bank holiday (UK) |
Fundraising for Easter |
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20 |
Easter Sunday 2025 |
Christian |
Fundraising for Easter |
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21 |
Easter Monday 2025 International Dark Sky Week (21-28 Apr 2025) |
Bank holiday (Eng, Wal, NI) Event |
Step-by-step: Stargazing and space fundraiser |
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2025 Summer term
Popular summer celebrations include The London Marathon, May Day, VE Day, Father’s Day, sports day and leavers’ events as well as summer fairs and festivals. Find more summer event inspiration.
April
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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22 |
Stephen Lawrence Day Allergy Awareness Week (22-28 Apr 2024) (2025 date TBC) |
Observance Awareness |
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23 |
St George’s Day Shakespeare Day |
National day (England) Observance |
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25 |
Huntingdonshire Day |
County day |
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27 |
The London Marathon 2025 |
Event |
Success story: London Marathon fundraiser |
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29 |
National Gardening Week (29 Apr to 5 May 2024) (2025 date TBC) |
Nature |
May
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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May |
Campaign Literacy Community |
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1 |
May Day Staffordshire Day |
County day |
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4 |
International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) (4-10 May 2025) |
Awareness |
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5 |
Early May bank holiday 2025 |
Bank holiday (UK) |
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7 |
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. 1840) 185 years |
Composer |
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8 |
VE Day |
National event |
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9 |
J M Barrie (b. 1860) 165 years |
Author |
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10 |
National Doughnut Week (10-18 May 2025) |
Food week |
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11 |
Salvador Dalí (b. 1904) Somerset Day |
Artist County day |
Step-by-step: Art exhibition |
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12 |
National Limerick Day Sun awareness week (12-18 May 2025) Mental Health Awareness Week (12-18 May 2025) |
Literacy Campaign Awareness |
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15 |
L. Frank Baum (b. 1856) Lag BaOmer (15-16 May 2025) |
Author Jewish celebration |
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16 |
Middlesex Day |
County day |
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17 |
Eurovision Song Contest 2025 (Grand Final), Basel, Switzerland |
Event |
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18 |
National Children’s Day UK (2025) |
Campaign |
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19 |
Walk to School Week (19-23 May 2025) |
Campaign |
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20 |
Campaign |
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24 |
National Children’s Gardening Week (24 May to 1 June 2025) |
Campaign |
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26 |
Kent Day Spring bank holiday 2025 National BBQ Week (26 May to 1 June 2025) |
County day Bank holiday (UK) Event |
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June
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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1 |
Dorset/Pembrokeshire Day The Big Lunch 2024 (1-2 June) (2025 date TBC) Shavuot (1-3 Jun 2025) |
County days National event Jewish celebration |
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2 |
Fiver Challenge (2-27 June 2025) |
Campaign |
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3 |
Volunteers' Week (3-9 June 2024) (2025 date TBC) |
Event |
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4 |
Devon Day |
County day |
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5 |
Allan Ahlberg (b. 1938) Wiltshire Day |
Author County day Nature |
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6 |
National Doughnut Day 2025 |
Food day |
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7 |
The Big Help Out 2024 (7-9 June) (2025 date TBC) The Great Big Green Week (7-15 June 2025) |
Volunteering initiative Campaign |
Read more about The Big Help Out
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8 |
Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955) 70 years |
Computer Scientist Campaign |
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9 |
BNF Healthy Eating Week (9-13 June 2025) |
Awareness |
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10 |
Bike Week (10-16 June 2024) (2025 date TBC) |
Campaign |
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11 |
Jacques Cousteau (b. 1910) 115 years |
Oceanographer |
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15 |
Father’s Day 2025 |
Father’s Day |
Father’s Day gifts and fundraising events |
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16 |
Sussex Day National School Sports Week (16-22 June 2025) |
County day Campaign |
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18 |
International Picnic Day |
Event |
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21 |
Shetland/Suffolk Day Summer solstice |
County days Event Season |
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22 |
Windrush Day |
Observance |
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23 |
National Insect Week (23-29 June 2025) |
Campaign |
Step-by step: Beetle Drive |
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25 |
Eric Carle (b. 1929) National Writing Day 2025 |
Author Literacy |
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27 |
Global pride day |
Awareness |
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July
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
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July |
Campaign |
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6 |
Frida Khalo (b. 1907) |
Artist |
Step-by-step: Art exhibition |
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7 |
World Chocolate Day |
Food day |
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10 |
International Don’t Step on a Bee Day |
Awareness |
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12 |
Battle of the Boyne |
Bank holiday (Northern Ireland) |
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15 |
Edvard Grieg (b. 1843) |
Composer UN initiative |
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17 |
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20 |
Kenneth Grahame (b. 1859) 165 years |
Author |
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25 |
Rosalind Franklin (b. 1920) 105 years |
Biologist |
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27 |
Norfolk Day |
County day |
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28 |
Beatrix Potter (b. 1866) |
Author-Illustrator/ Scientist/Conservationist |
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29 |
Buckinghamshire Day |
County day |
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31 |
JK Rowling (b. 1965) 60 years Harry Potter (b. 1980) |
Author Literary character |
August
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DATE |
EVENT |
TYPE |
LINKS |
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1 |
Yorkshire Day |
County day |
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2 |
Tisha B'av (2-3 Aug 2025) |
Jewish celebration |
Cultural celebrations |
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4 |
Summer bank holiday (Scotland) 2025 |
Bank holiday (Scotland) |
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5 |
Northumberland Day |
County day |
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11 |
Enid Blyton (b. 1897) |
Author |
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12 |
UN initiative |
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19 |
World Photo Day |
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How to take better event photos |
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22 |
North Riding Day |
County day |
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24 |
East Riding Day |
County day |
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25 |
Summer bank holiday (England, Wales, Northern Ireland) 2025 |
Bank holiday (Eng, Wal, NI) |
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