Engagement Events

Inclusion and Wellbeing Events Calendar, 2025

We have put together a calendar of internal and external events that the LWH has either been invited to or co-produced with local people, communities and organisations. Download the calendar here.

Awareness Events (Jan 2025 - Dec 2025)

Apologies if we have missed a health, religious or community event. We hope to get it right next year for you, staff, patients and our local population. Please use the opportunity to share.

Whilst we cannot celebrate all of these events to the same degree, we endeavour to organise staff and patient engagement events and communications for as many awareness days as possible.

January 2025

Dry January
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan 20)
National Obesity Week (Jan 10–16)
Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (Jan 22–28)

February 2025

LGBTQ+ History Month (All month)
World Hijab Day (Feb 1)
World Cancer Day (Feb 4)
Race Equality Week (Feb 5–11)
International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb 11)

March 2025

Zero Discrimination Day / International Wheelchair Day (Mar 1)
Endometriosis Awareness Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
International Women's Day (Mar 8)
Neurodiversity Celebration Week (Mar 17–23)
Transgender Day of Visibility (Mar 31)

April 2025

International Asexuality Day (Apr 6)
World Health Day (Apr 7)
International Caesarean Awareness Month
Lesbian Visibility Day (Apr 26)

May 2025

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week (Apr 29–May 5)
National Weaning Week (May 13–17)
International Day of the Midwife / Hand Hygiene Day (May 5)
World Ovarian Cancer Day (May 8)
Mental Health Awareness Week (May 13–20)
Pansexual Visibility Day (May 24)

June 2025

Pride Month (All month)
SANDS Awareness Month (All Month)
Refugee Week (June 15–21)
National Healthcare Estate Facilitators Day (June 19)
UK Windrush Day (June 22)
Cervical Screening Awareness Week (June 17–23)

July 2025

Disabled Pride Month (All month)
NHS Birthday (July 5)
Sarcoma Awareness Month
International Non-Binary People’s Day (July 14)
Nelson Mandela International Day (July 18)
South Asian Heritage Month (July 18–Aug 17)

August 2025

World Breastfeeding Week (Aug 1–7)
International Youth Day (Aug 12)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (Aug 23)

September 2025

Gynaecology/Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Urology Awareness Month
World Afro Day’s "Big Hair Assembly" (Sept 15)
International Equal Pay Day (Sept 18)
UK National Inclusion Week (Sept 22–28)
Bi Visibility Day (Sept 23)
International Day of Sign Language (Sept 23)

October 2025

Black History Month (All month)
Anniversary of the Introduction of the Equality Act (Oct 1)
World Mental Health Day (Oct 10)
World Menopause Day (Oct 18)
Intersex Awareness Day (Oct 26)

November 2025

Islamophobia Awareness Month (All month)
Transgender Awareness Week (Nov 13–19)
Disability History Month (Nov 14–Dec 20)
Transgender Day of Remembrance (Nov 20)

December 2025

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (Dec 2)
International Day of Persons with Disabilities (Dec 3)
Human Rights Day (Dec 10)
International Migrants’ Day (Dec 18)
International Human Solidarity Day (Dec 20)