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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We are the leading business membership organisation in disability inclusion. We work in partnership with business, Government, and disabled people to remove barriers to inclusion. Our 600+ Members employ over 20% of the UK workforce and an estimated 8 million people worldwide. 

November 2025

• 4 – Purple Tuesday
• 20 – Carers’ Rights Day
• 20 November to 20 December – UK Disability History Month

December 2025

• 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities

January 2026

• 4 – World Braille Day
• 19 – Blue Monday

February 2026

Dignity Action Month

• 5 – Time to Talk Day
• 4 – World Cancer Day
• 9 – International Epilepsy Day
• 28 – Rare Disease Day

March 2026

Brain Tumour Awareness Month

• 3 – World Hearing Day
• 16-22 – Neurodiversity Celebration Week
• 21 – World Down Syndrome Day
• 30 – World Bipolar Day

April 2026

• 2 – World Autism Awareness Day
• 11 – World Parkinson’s Day
• 20-26 – MS Awareness Week

May 2026

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

June 2026

• 1-7 – World Heart Rhythm week
• 8-14 – Carers’ week
• TBC – Men’s Health week
• TBC – Diabetes week
• 15-21 – Learning Disability week
• 22-28 – Deafblind Awareness week

July 2026

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

September 2026

• TBC – Occupational Health Awareness Week
• 23 – International Day of Sign Languages
• 14-20 – National Inclusion week

October 2026

ADHD Awareness Month.

• 6 – World Cerebral Palsy Day
• 5-9 – National Work Life Week
• TBC – Dyslexia Awareness Week
• TBC – OCD Awareness Week
• 8 – World Sight Day
• 10 – World Mental Health Day
• 18 – World Menopause Day
• 20 – World Osteoporosis Day

November 2026

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

December 2026

• 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities

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