Disability awareness dates
We list disability and health awareness days to help our membership plan information and events for employees and customers. While we make every effort to verify these dates we strongly recommend that you check all sources before publishing details.
We also welcome suggestions for other awareness days, please contact us if you have any suggestions.
2021
January
- 18 – Blue Monday
February
- 4 – World cancer day
- 6 – Time to talk day
March
- Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
- 1 – Self-Harm Awareness Day
- 1 – Zero Discrimination Day
- 3 – World hearing day
- 5 – University mental health day
- 5 – Employee appreciation day
- 8 – International women’s day
April
- 2 – World autism day
- 7 – World health day
- 19 – 25 – MS awareness week
May
- 3 – 9 – Deaf awareness week
- 18-24 – Epilepsy Awareness Week
- 20 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- 16 – 22 – Mental health awareness week
June
- Step up for 30
- Tourettes Awareness month
- 8-13 – Diabetes Awareness week
- 9 – TM (Transverse Myelitis) Awareness Day
- 15-20 – Men’s Health Week
- 15-20 – Learning Disability Week
- 18 – Autistic Pride Day
- 21-27 – Scottish learning disability week
- 22-28 – Deafblind Awareness Week
October
- ADHD Awareness Month
- 6-11 – Dyspraxia Awareness Week
- 7-12 – Dyslexia week
- 10 – World Mental Health Day
- 11-15 – National Work Life Week
- 22 – International Stammering Awareness Day (ISAD)
