| January |
Health Month - A range of special events are taking place across the UK to celebrate the involvement of younger volunteers (16 to 25 year olds) in health and to encourage more young people to get involved. http://timeforhealth.org.uk |
| 14th February |
Gold Heart Day - The Variety Club Children's Charity provides freedom, independence and hope to housands of children and young people across the country. Everyday in the UK 75 children are born or diagnosed with a disability. They and their families need your support to help them fulfil their potentional. Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details. http://www.varietyclub.org.uk/ |
| 7 - 14th March |
Share the Care Week is the national awareness raising and carer recruitment campaign for short break services. It is co-ordinated by Shared Care Network and is supported by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. For further information please contact Shared Care Network on 0117 9415364. http://www.sharedcarenetwork.org.uk |
| 15- 21st March |
Down's Syndrome Association Week - this year focuses on a campaign to bring high quality information to new parents of babies with Down's syndrome. At present there is no legal requirement for information provided after a diagnosis of the condition, whether that is at birth or prenatally. The 'Tell It Right, Start It Right' intiative is campaigning for it to be law that high quality information and support is available wherever you are in the UK. For more information see http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/ |
| 19 - 25th April |
Parkinson's Awareness Week - Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details. http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/ |
| 26 Apr - 2 May |
MS Awareness Week - Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details. http://www.msawarenessweek.org.uk |
| 9 - 15th May |
Dystonia Awareness Week - Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details. http://www.dystonia.org.uk/ |
| 12th May |
International Nurses Day - |
| 15 - 22nd May |
Children's Hospice Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.childhospice.org.uk/ |
| 17 - 23rd May |
Action for Brain Injury Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.headway.org.uk/action-for-brain-injury-week.aspx |
| 17 - 23rd May |
Cystic Fibrosis Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.cftrust.org.uk/ |
| 24 - 28th May |
Arthritis Care Awareness Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/ |
| 13 - 19th June |
National Epilepsy Week - Visit the website for more details http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/ |
| 14 - 20th June |
Carers Week - Organised by 10 national charities: Carers UK, Counsel & Care, Crossroads Caring for Carers, Help the Hospices, Macmillan Cancer Support, MS Society, Parkinson*s Disease Society, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Vitalise and WRVS. Events and activities every day of the week; over 7,000 in
total. Visit the website for more details. Http://www.carersweek.org/ |
| 21 - 25th June |
National Falls Awareness Week - Visit the website for more details and where you can sign up for their bimonthly e-bulletin. http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/fallsday |
| 21 - 27th June |
Deafblind Awareness Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.deafblind.org.uk/ |
| 21 - 27th June |
Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.mndassociation.org/ |
| 21 - 27th June |
Learning Disability Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.mencap.org.uk/ |
| 21st September |
World Alzheimer's Day - Visit the website for more details. http://www.alz.co.uk/ |
| 25th September |
International Ataxia Awareness Day - Visit the website for more details. http://www.ataxia.org.uk/ |
| 1st October |
International Day of Older Persons - Visit the website for more details. http://www.un.org/ |
| 9th October |
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day - a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world. Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details. http://www.worldday.org/ |
| 11 - 17th October |
Encephalitis Awareness Week - Visit the website for more details. http://www.encephalitis.info/ |
| 14th October |
World Sight Day - this is an international day of awareness, held annually on the second Thursday of October to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment. It is an initiative of Vision 2020, the global campaign whose vision is to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020, led by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) of which the World Blind Union is a member. Visit the website for more details. http://www.v2020.org/ |
| 20th October |
World Osteoporosis Day - Visit the website for more details. http://www.nos.org.uk/ |
| 29th October |
World Psoriasis Day - this is an annual day specially dedicated to people with psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis. Conceived by patients for patients, World Psoriasis Day is a truly global event that sets out to give an international voice to the 125 million people with psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis. Visit the website for more information. http://www.worldpsoriasisday.com/ |
| 3rd December |
International Day of Persons with Disabilities - Visit the website for more details. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable |
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