UK awareness days and key dates

Friday 4 January 2036

• World Braille Day

  AwarenessInternational

  World Braille Day on 4 January highlights braille as an essential means of communication for blind and partially sighted people.

Sunday 6 January 2036

• Epiphany

  Religious and culturalInternational

  Epiphany on 6 January is the Christian feast marking the visit of the Magi and the revealing of Jesus to the wider world.

Monday 14 January 2036

• World Logic Day

  AwarenessInternational

  A UNESCO day on 14 January that celebrates logic and its place in science, technology and everyday reasoning.

Friday 18 January 2036

• Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

  Religious and culturalInternational18 to 25 January 2036

  Observed from 18 to 25 January, when churches of different traditions pray together for Christian unity.

Monday 21 January 2036

• Brew Monday

  Awareness

  A UK day on the third Monday of January that encourages people to meet for a cup of tea and talk, in place of so-called Blue Monday.

• Cervical Cancer Prevention Week

  Awareness21 to 27 January 2036

  A UK week in January that promotes HPV vaccination and cervical screening as ways to prevent cervical cancer.

• Energy Savers Week

  Awareness21 to 27 January 2036

  A January week run by the Energy Saving Trust and Citizens Advice with simple tips to cut home energy use and bills.

Thursday 24 January 2036

• International Day of Education

  AwarenessInternational

  The International Day of Education on 24 January celebrates the role of education in peace, development and fairer societies.

Friday 25 January 2036

• Big Garden Birdwatch

  Awareness25 to 27 January 2036

  The RSPB's annual weekend survey in late January when people count the birds in their garden or local green space for an hour.

• Burns Night

  Religious and culturalInternational

  An evening on 25 January celebrating Scotland's national poet Robert Burns with suppers, haggis and readings of his work.

• St Dwynwen's Day

  Religious and cultural

  Celebrated in Wales on 25 January, St Dwynwen's Day honours the Welsh patron saint of lovers and is often called the Welsh Valentine's Day.

Saturday 26 January 2036

• International Day of Clean Energy

  AwarenessInternational

  The International Day of Clean Energy on 26 January calls for a fair and inclusive move away from fossil fuels towards clean energy.

• National Storytelling Week

  Awareness26 January to 3 February 2036

  A UK celebration of oral storytelling that starts on the last Saturday of January, running from 31 January to 8 February in 2026.

Sunday 27 January 2036

• Holocaust Memorial Day

  AwarenessInternational

  A day on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and the victims of Nazi persecution and later genocides.

• International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

  AwarenessInternational

  On 27 January the UN remembers the victims of the Holocaust, marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.

• World Leprosy Day

  AwarenessInternational

  An international day on the last Sunday of January that raises awareness of leprosy and the stigma faced by people affected by it.

Monday 28 January 2036

• Data Protection Day

  AwarenessInternational

  Marked on 28 January to raise awareness of personal data protection and privacy rights, and known in some countries as Privacy Day.

• International Day of Peaceful Coexistence

  AwarenessInternational

  The International Day of Peaceful Coexistence on 28 January promotes tolerance, respect for diversity and peace through education and dialogue.

Wednesday 30 January 2036

• World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day

  AwarenessInternational

  A global day on 30 January that calls for action to end neglected tropical diseases, which affect more than a billion people.