Disability awareness dates

Disability and health awareness days can be useful for organisations as part of a wider inclusion strategy. Before you decide to focus on a specific day, week or month  you might think about:

• Who you want to engage and what you want to achieve.
• How you will ensure your activities are informed and driven by disabled employees or users of your products or services.
• What the lasting legacy might be afterwards.

While we make every effort to verify these dates, we strongly recommend that you check all sources before publishing details. We welcome suggestions for other awareness days to include, please email us with details.  

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November 2024

• 12 – Purple Tuesday.
• 14 November – 20 December – UK Disability History Month.
• 21 – Carers Rights Day.

December 2024

• 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

January 2025

• 4 – World Braille Day.
• 20 – Blue Monday.

February 2025

• 1 – Dignity Action Day.
• 1 – Time to Talk Day.
• 4 – World Cancer Day.
• 10 – International Epilepsy Day.
• 28 – Rare Disease Day.

March 2025

Brain Tumour Awareness Month.

• 3 – World Hearing Day.
• 17- 23 – Neurodiversity Celebration Week.
• 21 – World Down Syndrome Day.
• 30 – World Bipolar Day.

April 2025

• 2 – World Autism Day.
• 11 – World Parkinson’s Day.
• 28-4 – Action for Brain Injury week.

May 2025

• 10 – World Lupus Day.
• 12-18 – Mental Health Awareness week.
• 15 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).
• 19-25 – Dementia Action week.

June 2025

• 2-8 – World Heart Rhythm week.
• 9-15 – Carers’ week.
• 9-15 – Men’s Health week.
• 16-22 – Diabetes week.
• 16-22 – Learning Disability week.
• 22-28 – Deafblind Awareness week.

July 2025

• 24 – Samaritans’ Awareness Day.
• 25 – National Schizophrenia Awareness day.

September 2025

• 18-24 – Occupational Health Awareness Week.
• 23 – International Day of Sign Languages.
• 29-5 – National Inclusion week.

October 2025

ADHD Awareness Month.

• 6 – World Cerebral Palsy Day.
• 6-12 – National Work Life Week.
• 6-13 – Dyslexia Awareness Week.
• 9 – World Sight Day.
• 10 – World Mental Health Day.
• 18 – World Menopause Day.
• 20 – World Osteoporosis Day.

November 2025

• TBC – Purple Tuesday.
• TBC – Carers’ Rights Day.
• TBC – UK Disability History Month.

December 2025

• 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

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