Awareness Days

AWARENESS DAYS 2014

National Hug Day                                                                            21 January

Red Feb (Heart Research Australia)                                            1 – 28 February
Australia’s Healthy Weight Week                                                 17 – 23 February
Pink Shirt Day (anti-bullying Canada)                                          26 February

Self Injury Awareness Day                                                            1 March
Chloe’s Law Day                                                                             1 March
International Women’s Day                                                           8 March
National Sleep Awareness Week                                                 2 – 9 March
Change Day                                                                                    6 March
International Brain Awareness Week                                         10 – 16 March
World Kidney Day                                                                          13 March
World Sleep Day                                                                            14 March
World Consumer Rights Day                                                        15 March
National Close the Gap Day                                                          20 March
Harmony Day                                                                                   21 March
Neighbour Day                                                                               30 March
Earth Hour                                                                                      29 March

National Youth Week                                                                    4 – 13 April
Pillow Fight Day                                                                             5 April
World Health Day                                                                           7 April
Earth Day                                                                                        22 April
Pay It Forward Day                                                                        24 April
International Make a Wish Day                                                   29 April

Motherless Daughters Awareness Week                                 1 – 7 May
World Laughter Day                                                                     4 May
International No Diet Day                                                            6 May
Mother’s Day                                                                                11 May
National Volunteer Week                                                            12 – 18 May
RSPCA Million Paws Walk                                                           18 May
Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea                                                22 May
Kidney Health Week                                                                    25 – 31 May
Exercise Physiology Awareness Week                                     26 – 31 May
National White Wreath Day                                                         29 May
Wear White to Work Day                                                             29 May

World Environment Day                                                             5 June
World Oceans Day                                                                      8 June
International Panic Day                                                             18 June
World Music Day                                                                         21 June
Red Nose Day                                                                              27 June

International Cooperative Day                                                 5 July
International Kissing Day                                                          6 July
Stress Down Day                                                                        25 July
Missing Persons Week                                                             27 July – 2 August

Jeans for Genes Day                                                                1 August
Dying to know day                                                                     8 August
Winter Sleepout                                                                        30 August
International Youth Day                                                           12 August
40 Hour Famine                                                                         15 – 17 August
Daffodil Day                                                                                22 August
Hearing Awareness Week                                                        24 – 30 August
Just Because Day                                                                      27 August

Jean Hailes Women’s Health Week                                         1 – 5 September
Father’s Day                                                                                7 September
World Suicide Prevention Day                                                 10 September
R U OK Day                                                                                  11 September
White Balloon Day                                                                     12 September
World First Aid Day                                                                    13 September
Positive Thinking Day                                                               13 September
International Talk Like a Pirate Day                                         19 September
International Day of Peace                                                       21 September
World Tourism Day                                                                     27 September
International Right to Know Day                                              28 September

Dwarfism Awareness Month                                                     1 – 31 October
World Vegetarian Day                                                                1 October
International Day of Older Persons                                         1 October
World Smile Day                                                                         3 October
World Animal Day                                                                       4 October
Mental Health Week                                                                  5 – 12 October
Sock it to Suicide Week                                                            6 – 10 October
Mental Health Day                                                                     10 October
National Coming Out Day                                                         11 October
Social Inclusion Week                                                              11 – 17 October
National Nutrition Week                                                           12 – 18 October
National Nutrition Week                                                           12 – 18 October
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Awareness Week             13 – 19 October (TBC?)
Global Drug Safety Day                                                             16 October
Boss’s Day                                                                                  16 October
Sweetest Day                                                                             18 October
Week Without Violence                                                             20 – 26 October
Pink Ribbon Day                                                                         27 October
Halloween                                                                                   31 October

World Vegan Day                                                                       1 November 2014
MOvember                                                                                 1 – 30 November 2014
National Walk to Work Day                                                        7 November 2014
National Psychology Week                                                       9 – 15 November 2014
World Kindness Day                                                                  13 November 2014
World Diabetes Day                                                                   14 November 2014
International Day For Tolerance                                              16 November 2014
World Philosophy Day                                                               20 November 2014
International Suicide Survivors Day                                       22 November 2014
White Ribbon Day                                                                     TBC 2014
Buy Nothing Day                                                                         29 November 2014

Give Now Week                                                                         1 – 8 December 2014
World Aids Day                                                                           1 December 2014
World Persons With Disabilities Day                                       3 December 2014
International Volunteer Day                                                     5 December 2014