Everyone is passionate about something!
Here is a calendar of Awareness Weeks/Days to suit all interests, allowing you to find out more or possibly get involved. Keep looking as the year progresses; there's bound to be something for everyone.
Sign Up Now Month
01 - 31 Jan 2009
Sign Up Now month takes place each January and September and is a national campaign to motivate potential learners to sign up for courses. The campaign offers learning providers free materials to support their learning events.
National Hearing Clearer Awareness Month
01 - 31 Jan 2009
Aiming to raise the awareness of hearing loss.
04 - 10 Jan 2009
An annual opportunity for blindness organizations to promote braille literacy, showcase their work and raise public awareness of blindness issues.
Food Allergy & Intolerance Week
19 - 23 Jan 2009
A campaign to raise awareness about the many people who suffer from food intolerance to ingredients such as wheat, dairy, eggs, and gluten.
19 - 23 Jan 2009
Helping schools raise children's and young peoples' awareness of cancer using free teaching resources from Macmillan Cancer Support.
19 - 30 Jan 2009
The world's biggest bird survey, the RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch - now in it's 30th year.
21 - 27 Jan 2009
An annual international event aimed at raising awareness of the continuing problem of leprosy in the developing world.
26 Jan - 01 Feb 2009
BE LOUD! (formerly known as the Loud Tie campaign) is the Beating Bowel Cancer annual awareness and fundraising campaign, urging the public to be just that!
27 Jan 2009
Raising awareness and understanding of the Holocaust and its contemporary relevance to all of society, by reference primarily to the Holocaust but also to other more recent atrocities that raise similar issues.
Bug Busting Day: Head Lice Beware!
31 Jan 2009
Campaigning to tackle the massive problem of head lice.
31 Jan - 07 Feb 2009
Campaigning to increase public awareness of the art, practice and value of oral storytelling.
Poverty & Homelessness Action Week
31 Jan - 08 Feb 2009
Poverty & Homelessness Action Week is a unique, annual opportunity for churches, church groups as well as other groups, to raise the profile of poverty, housing and homelessness related issues within local churches and the wider community, including rural communities, towns and cities across the UK.