Awareness Days UK - There's A Gift For That

Here at Box of Hugs we're always striving to provide you with a wide range of quality and thoughtful gifts to make your gift buying easier and to send your Hugs to your colleagues, family and friends whatever the occasion and to give a boost to their day. However, there are many times throughout the year when we all need Hugs or when a Hug could make a huge difference. A hug might be in the form of a message, a call, an email, a thoughtful act, a gift or a physical hug - but it always comes with an intention of letting someone know you're there for them and that you care. That's why we set up Box of Hugs - as another way to send a Hug when you can't be there in person. In addition to the usual reasons for sending thoughtful gifts - Birthdays, New Baby, Sorry for Your Loss, Get Well Soon, You've Got This - there are also hundreds of other reasons to celebrate, have fun and or to simply be aware of yourself, others and/or the World throughout the year. We've highlighted just a small selection of these fun, interesting and important National, UK and World Awareness Days below and we hope they inspire you in the weeks and months ahead :-) 

Did you know that whatever the day, week or month - it's probably an Awareness Day for something - a reason to celebrate or acknowledge it, to feel uplifted or inspired and to contact your friends and family, to be there for each other, to laugh, cry, remember together, make new memories and to connect.

Below we have highlighted just a small selection of literally hundreds of amazing and thoughtful Awareness Days, Fun Days and National or World Days for each month in 2024 - everything from National Tea Day to National Pet Day, International Week of Happiness at Work and Brain Tumour Awareness Days - along with some important key dates - such as ordering dates for Christmas, Mother's Day or Father's Day and dates for ordering your gifts. 

So... grab a cup of tea and your favourite notebook and a pen or your phone, take a look at our list below and choose some occasions that mean a lot to you, your friends or family and make a plan about how to acknowledge them, things to do and how to make them days, weeks and months to remember :-).  We hope it inspires you :-)   

MONTH	NATIONAL, UK AND WORLD AWARENESS DAYS	WAYS TO CELEBRATE AND DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
JANUARY
January	Dry January Veganuary
January 3rd	Festival of Sleep Day
January 15th	Brew Monday
January 18th	Winnie The Pooh Day
January 25th	Burns Night
January 27th	Parent Mental Health Day
Jan 30th - February 6th	National Storytelling Week
FEBRUARY		Pre-order your Mother's Day Gifts (UK) Pre-order your Employee Appreciation Day Gifts Order your Valentine's/Galentine's Day Gifts
February 1st	Time To Talk Day
February 13th	Galentine's Day
February 14th	Valentine's Day
February 17th	Random Acts Of Kindness Day
February 24th	Emotional Health Day
MARCH		Send Easter Gifts
March	Brain Tumour Awareness Month
March	Walk All Over Cancer
March 1st	Employee Appreciation Day
March 2nd	National Old Stuff Day	Keep, donate, discard
March 4th - 9th	National Careers Week
March 4th - 10th	British Pie Week
March 8th	International Women's Day
March 10th	Mothering Sunday
March 15th	Red Nose Day For Comic Relief
March 20th	Spring Equinox - First Day of Spring
March 20th	International Day Of Happiness
March 22nd - March 23rd	The Great British Spring Clean
March 31st	Easter Sunday
APRIL		Send Good Luck In Your Exams/ With Your Finals Gifts
April	Stress Awareness Month
April	National Pet Month
April 7th	World Health Day
April 15th - 21st	National Feet Week
April 21st	The London Marathon
April 22nd	Earth Day
April 25th	World Penguin Day
April 29th	National Gardening Week
MAY		Order your Mother's Day gifts (USA, Italy, Australia and more)
May 1st 2024 (Early May Bank Holiday - Monday  6 May 2024)	May Day/ Beltane/International Workers Day
May	National Share a Story month
May	National Walking month
May	Small Business Month
May 1st - 8th	Time for a Cuppa week
May 4th	National Truffle Day
May 5th	World Laughter Day
May 13th - 19th	Mental Health Awareness Week
May 13th - June 13th	National Smile Month
May 12th	Mother's Day	including: USA, Australia, Italy
May 13th	World Cocktail Day
May 13th	Writing For Health and Healing Day
May 18th - 26th	National Donut Week
May 20th - 26th	Action For Brain Injury Awareness Week
May 21st	World Meditation Day
May 23rd	National Turtle Day
May 24th	Hats For Headway
May 29th	National Biscuit Day
JUNE
June 1st - 5th	The Big Lunch
June	National Age Without Apology Month
June	Pride Month
June 2nd	March for Men
June 3rd - 9th	UK Clothing Poverty Awareness Week
June 5th - 16th	Walk Together For Bowel Cancer
June 7th	National Fish and Chip Day
June 8th	Global Wellness Day
June 8th	Best Friend Day
June 10th - 16th	Loneliness Awareness Week
June 10th - 16th	International Men's Health Week
June 16th	Father's Day UK
June 23rd	Public Service Day
June 24th - 30th	World Wellbeing Week
June 26th	Reserves Day
JULY
July	National Picnic Month
July 1st - 14th	Wimbledon
July 5th	Thank You Day
July 7th	World Chocolate Day
July 15th - 21st	Alcohol Awareness Week
July 24th	International Self-Care Day
July 24th	The Big Listen 24/7 Samaritans Awareness Day
July 24th - August 2nd	Love Parks week
July 30th	International Day Of Friendship
AUGUST
August	International Happiness Happens Month
August 1st	Cycle To Work Day
August 12th - 18th	Afternoon Tea Week
August 13th	National Opportunity Day
August 26th	National Dog Day
September	Organic September
September	Sleeptember
October 5th	International Day Of Charity
SEPTEMBER
September 13th - 19th	Heritage Open Days
September 14th	National Doodle Day
September 16th	EveryWoman Day
September 21st	International Day Of Peace
September 22nd	Car Free Day
September 23rd	World Dream Day
September 23rd - 29th	International Week of Happiness At Work
September 23rd - 29th	National Inclusion Week
September 26th	Human Resource Professional Day
OCTOBER		Box of Hugs Christmas Shop coming soon... Open for Corporate Christmas Gifts pre-orders
October	Black History Month Stoptober Go Sober For October Breast Cancer Awareness Month World Menopause Awareness Month
October 1st - 7th	National Vegetarian Week
October 3rd	National Poetry Day
October 4th	World Smile Day
October 7th	National Brunch Weekend
October 7th - 13th	National Work Life Week
October 10th	World Mental Health Day
October 14th - 20th	Back Awareness Week
October 14th - 20th	National Baking Week
October 14th - 20th	Chocolate Week
October 15th	Global Wave Of Light
October 16th	Boss' Day
October 16th	World Food Day
October 18th	World Menopause Day
October 27th	National Cheese Toastie Day
October 31st - November 2nd	Museums At Night
NOVEMBER		Pre-order your Christmas Gifts
November	World Vegan Month
November	Movember
November 1st	World Vegan Day
November 3rd	National Sandwich Day
November 3rd - 10th	National Spa Week
November 5th	Bonfire Night
November 6th	National Stress Awareness Day
November 11th	Remembrance Day
November 13th	Kindness Day UK
November 11th - 15th	Anti-Bullying Week
November 19th	Odd Socks Day
November 19th	International Men's Day
December		Last orders for UK Christmas Delivery
December	Decembeard
December 3rd	Giving Day
December 10th	Human Rights Day
December 12th	National Workplace Remembrance Day
December 13th	Christmas Jumper Day
December 24th	Christmas Eve
December 25th	Christmas Day
December 26th	Boxing Day
December 31st	New Years Eve
January 1st	New Years Day

(Awareness Days and Dates - sourced from www.awarenessdays.com, www.thereisadayforthat.com and other google searches) 

And... if you're looking for even more inspiration, have a look at online resources such as ...

www.awarenessdays.com

www.daysoftheyear.com

www.thereisadayforthat.com

or simply search google e.g. ask.... 'what awareness day is being celebrated today'

(Note: Box of Hugs is not affiliated with and does not endorse any of these websites)

Overall: as human's we all need regular Hugs, but if you can't be there in person a message, call or gift can be another great way of connecting throughout the year.