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Dive into our interactive calendar, brimming with Awareness Days, Weeks, and Months! It's your one-stop destination to explore, search, and stay informed about the dates that matter. Talk to our team about Booking a Speaker Today from our Partner Experts.
World Sleep Day is a celebration of sleep and a call to action on important issues related to sleep, including medicine, education, social aspects and driving.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week aims to bring about worldwide neurodiversity acceptance, equality and inclusion in schools and workplaces.
Managing debt is a common challenge faced by many, and Debt Awareness Week aims to break the stigma surrounding financial struggles while providing practical advice and solutions.
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March 7th urges us to get our bowl spoon ready for National Cereal Day each year!
British Science Week is entering its third decade in 2025, taking place on 7-16 March, and the theme to mark the start of this new era is ‘Change and adapt’!
Empowerment, resilience, achievement, and equality. These are just a few of the myriad attributes and goals associated with International Women’s Day. This special day champions the incredible contributions of women across the globe and rallies for gender equality and women’s rights.
The National MS Society will amplify the stories of people living with MS during this week. You can get involved by: Sharing your story, Connecting with someone affected by MS
Nutrition and Hydration Week
Programming for Primaries is an initiative aimed at fostering a love for coding and computational thinking among primary school children.
National No Smoking Day helps encourage as many smokers as possible to quit on No Smoking Day.
World Glaucoma Day aims to create awareness about a medical condition that affects countless people around the world.
University Mental Health Day shines a light on the mental health issues faced by students, fostering open conversations and offering support to ensure that no student feels alone in their struggles.
International School Meals Day is celebrated annually on the second Thursday of March
Kidney diseases is not a disease that affects only a handful of people: it's the 10th biggest killer worldwide.
Young Carers Action Day is an annual event organised by the Carers Trust to highlight the contributions of young carers.
World Sleep Day is a celebration of sleep and a call to action on important issues related to sleep, including medicine, education, social aspects and driving.
International Day of Action For Rivers is dedicated to saving, celebrating, and creating awareness about the importance of rivers.
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 - in the American calendar dating system.
The month of May marks European Diversity Month across the EU. We're calling on companies and organisations across Europe to join forces with us, the European Commission, to shine a spotlight on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and in society
May is Local History Month, making it an ideal time to dive into the history of our area.
May is Action on Stroke Month 2025, a time to unite globally in the fight against stroke.
National Share A Story Month is a celebration of storytelling and the joy it brings, and encourages people of all ages to share stories in a variety of ways.
The goal of ICAW is to work together to raise public awareness on why we all should be composting our organics and using compost to create healthier soil.
May The Fourth be with You.
World Laughter Day was established in 1998 and the first celebration was on 10 May 1998, in Mumbai, India, arranged by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement.
International Family Equality Day is observed annually on the first Sunday of May.
Firefighters' Memorial Day recognises the unique contribution and sacrifice that active and retired firefighters have made in the line of duty.
Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a weeklong campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness while pregnant or after having a baby.
The UK Council on Deafness created Deaf Awareness Week to increase the visibility of challenges the deaf community face and educate others on how they can support them.
Raise awareness about the importance of knowledge and learning on hand hygiene at the right times to prevent a range of infectious diseases.
Trans+ History Week is a week-long reflective period to learn and celebrate the momentous and millennia-old history of transgender, non-binary, gender-diverse and Intersex people.
Dying Matters Week is a crucial observance aimed at encouraging open conversations about death, dying, and bereavement.
The Early May bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom that takes place on the first Monday of May.
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945.
World Donkey Day in 2025 is on May 8. It's an annual day to recognise the contributions of donkeys.
ME Awareness Week aims to raise awareness of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
Taking place annually, National Lost Sock Memorial Day falls on the 9th May.
There are many different ways to define the word garden. Indeed, the term stretches to include everything from a small piece of land where flowers are grown to areas where we can plant fruit and veg.
Somerset Day 2025 will take place on the weekend of May 10–11, and will include the Big Somerset Picnic.
On this day, people are encouraged to treat themselves by giving in to their sweet tooth, carb-loading without having a marathon to run, and eating breakfast for dinner.
World topiary day. Sunday May 11, 2025. Dedicated to the art of shaping plants, this day was established in 2022 at the initiative of EBTS France.
Regularly eating too much salt can increase our risk of developing high blood pressure.
National Stationery Week is a celebration of the written word and all things stationery, and is organised by the London Stationery.
Sun Awareness Week marks the start of a summer long campaign to provide people with information so they can practice sun safety.
Black Inclusion Week 2025 is set to be the biggest yet with ground breaking events, inspiration speakers and content for everyone.
Learning at Work Week is a unique annual event. It's led nationally by Campaign for Learning and by employers and learning champions in their organisations.
Mental Health Awareness Week takes place every year in May. The official theme for the week is set by the Mental Health Foundation.
National Limerick Day honours the birthday of Edward Lear, an English poet, illustrator, author, and artist who is credited with popularising the form of poetry.
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Once compiled your VP report will appear here. In this report, you will discover the brilliant strides in fostering a diverse, sustainable, and inclusive work environment you are making. Highlighted are both the achievements and exciting Growth Opportunities awaiting exploration.
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Welcome to your Impact Dashboard!
This vibrant space showcases the incredible difference you're making as a valued member of Includability. Here, you'll see exactly how your ICE impact points have been transformed into meaningful actions, supporting various United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) through our partnership with B1G1.
Each point you've earned and spent is part of a larger story of change, helping to foster sustainability, education, health, and so much more around the globe. Thank you for being a catalyst for positive impact.
Celebrate your contributions and explore the projects you've helped bring to life—your commitment is truly shaping a better world!
Supporting UN SDG 2
Many impoverished children suffer from diseases of malnutrition and lack the access to nutritious food. This project makes an impact by giving parents a supply of seeds to grow healthy crops, so that they can feed and sustain their children day after day. Maize, vegetable, soya bean, sunflower, peanut and cow pea seeds, along with tree seedlings, are given to subsistence farmers who are trained to develop both large crops and home gardens.
Supporting UN SDGs 5 and 16
One in three Cambodian men admits to having used violence against a partner in the past, indicating the scale of domestic violence. Through structured campaigns, This Life exploits Cambodia’s love of social media to reach large numbers of women at risk of domestic violence. Using social media, we put the power of the law on domestic violence and information about support groups directly into the hands of women at risk, and in the hands of those best placed to help them. Your support enables us to boost our posts within Cambodia to impact even larger numbers of women at a very low cost.
Supporting UN SDGs 3, 11 and 16
Access to safe drinking water is the foundation to address the issues of health, education, food, and livelihood. This water is provided via the means of a Bio-Sand Water Filter (BSF) that lasts up to two decades, or more, and is able to provide safe water for an entire family. A BSF is a point-of-use water treatment system adapted from traditional slow sand filters. Your support provides clean water for an entire family through a BSF.
Supporting UN SDGs 13 and 15
In Honduras, there is an alarming rate of natural habitats being lost to climate change, urban development, and rural-to-urban migration. To counter this, active forest rangers help slow the poaching of trees, water, and wildlife from the Triquilapa and Cantagallo Mountains. Nursery managers also make restoration and reforestation efforts possible to conserve this vital forest. Support these advance community-based efforts that protect biodiversity, and restore habitats that provide 20,000 people with potable water.
Supporting UN SDGs 3 and 10
This project will help prevent child blindness by supporting the distribution of a daily dose of vitamin A supplements to a child in Turkana, Northern Kenya. In the early stages of physical development, it is important that a child receives the correct nutrition. Access to a proper diet is extremely limited in Turkana as people are nomadic pastoralist and live off the blood and milk of their animals. By treating children to prevent blindness you are helping a child living in poverty become more confident and courageous by providing him or her a new chance at life through improved nutrition.
Supporting UN SDG 4
This project will help realise the potential of an underprivileged Ethiopian nursery school child by giving him or her one set of educational materials. These schools often lack sufficient school supplies such as pens, pencils and writing pads, and books have to be shared amongst a group of students. Your support for this cause will help these students get much more out of their education and give them a brighter future.
Supporting UN SDG 15
The rainforests of Borneo, home to the critically endangered orangutan, are threatened with large-scale destruction due to fire. In recent years, droughts have lasted longer and become more frequent. Through this project, we aim to recruit, establish and maintain a permanent fire brigade. We will equip them with specialized firefighting equipment and protective clothing to protect the forest.
Supporting UN SDGs 1, 8 and 15
Running a beekeeping business can be a sustainable and ongoing way of income generation for farmers and entire families. Having a stable source of income can help not only families, but also smaller communities to improve together, have access to nourishing food, a safe living environment and high quality education for the upcoming generations to break the poverty cycle.
Supporting UN SDGs 2 and 12
In the US, an estimated 40% of food produced is wasted while 1 in 7 people are food insecure. During the pandemic those number worsened, and 54 million Americans were experienced food insecurity. Rescuing Leftover Cuisine gets volunteers to rescue meals that would otherwise go to waste from restaurants and other food businesses and deliver it to the hungry at homeless shelters, food pantries, and soup kitchens.
Supporting UN SDGs 7 and 10
Light up the world by providing solar lamps. Solar lighting helps extend their working day into the evening hours and allows children to study during the evening. These lamps are extremely safe as compared to kerosene lamps or other sources of lighting. They reduce the danger of fire and injury as well as improving the local air quality. Your support goes towards providing a primary school child in Malawi with days of light using a solar lamp, to enable them to study for their exams.
