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.
2022
September
- 19-25 – International Week of Happiness at Work
- 19-25 – National Eye Health week
- 23 – International Day of Sign Languages
- 26-2 – National Inclusion week
October
- Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 3-9 – Dyslexia week
- 10 – World Mental Health day
- 10-14 – National Work Life week
- 13 – World Sight day
- 18 – World Menopause day
November
- Movember
- 2 – National Stress Awareness day
- 14 – World Diabetes day
- 16-16 – UK Disability History month
December
2023
January
February
- 4 – World Cancer day
- 6 – Time to talk day
- 28 – Rare Disease day
March
- 3 – World Hearing day
- 8 – International Women’s day
- 21 – World Down Syndrome day
- 26 – Purple day
- 30 – World Bipolar day
April
- 2 – World Autism day
- 7 – World Health day
May
- 9-15 – Mental Health Awareness week
- 16-22 – Dementia Action week
- 16-22 – Action for Brain Injury week
- 19 – Global Accessibility Awareness day
June
- Step up for 30 for Bowel Cancer UK
- 6-12 – National growing for wellbeing week
- 6-12 – World Heart Rhythm week
- 6-12 – Carer’s week
- 11 – Walk Together for Bowel Cancer UK
- 13-19 – Men’s Health week
- 13-19 – Diabetes week
- 20-26 – Learning Disability week
- 21-27 – Love Your Lungs week
- 27-3 – Deafblind Awareness week
