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Find out about upcoming EDI events and awareness days, as well as resources for running inclusive events

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Calendar of EDI dates 2024/25

You may find this list of awareness days and weeks useful for timing events and communications activities. 

The University of Oxford is a diverse community, with people from many religious and cultural backgrounds. While this calendar is intended as a starting point, we recognise that there are many other dates that are significant to individuals and communities. 

If we have missed an important date or got something wrong please let us know.

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Date National/International Day Religious Observation
  East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month  
10th World Suicide Prevention Day   
16th Bi Visibility Week begins  
20th International Week of the Deaf begins  
21st World Alzheimer's Day/ UN International Day of Peace  
23rd

Bi Visibility Day / International Day of Sign Languages /    

UK National Inclusion Week begins / Migraine Awareness Week begins

  
29th World Deaf Day  

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st Black History Month (UK) begins / Global Diversity Awareness Month begins / Menopause Awareness Month begins / International Day of Older Persons  
2nd Dyslexia Awareness Week Rosh Hashanah (Judaism)
3rd   Sharad Navratri begins (Hindu)
6th World Cerebral Palsy Day  
7th Dyspraxia Week  
8th Ada Lovelace Day  
10th  World Mental Health Day / World Sight Day  
11th National Coming Out Day Yom Kippur (Judaism)
12th National Hate Crime Awareness Week begins  
16th International Pronouns Day Sukkot begins (Judaism)
18th World Menopause Day  
20th ACE (Asexual) Awareness Week begins  
26th Intersex Awareness Day   
29th World Stroke Day  
31st   Diwali (Hindu, Jain, Sikh)

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st Men's Health Awareness Month begins Bandi Chhor Divas 
8th Intersex Day of Solidarity   
10th UK Interfaith Week begins  
11th Anti-Bullying Week begins  
13th World Kindness Day / Transgender Awareness Week begins  
15th   Guru Nanak Gurpurab 
16th Start of Disability History Month (UK)  
19th International Men's Day  
20th Transgender Day of Remembrance  
25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women   

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st Universal Month for Human Rights begins / AIDS Awareness Month begins / World AIDS Day  
2nd International Day for the Abolition of Slavery   
3rd International Day of People with Disabilities   
10th International Human Rights Day  
18th International Migrants Day  
20th International Human Solidarity Day  
24th   Hanukah begins (Judaism)
25th   Christmas Day (Christian)

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st New Year's Day / Cervical Health Awareness Month begins  
4th World Braille Day   
7th   Christmas Day (Orthodox)
19th World Religion Day  
27th Holocaust Memorial Day   
29th Chinese New Year  

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st LGBT+ History Month begins  
1st   UN World Interfaith Harmony Week begins  
2nd UK Race Equality Week begins  
11th International Day of Women and Girls in Science  
28th International STAND UP to Bullying Day  Ramadan begins (Islam)

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st Women's History Month begins / Zero Discrimination Day / International Wheelchair Day  
3rd World Hearing Day  
8th International Women's Day   
14th   Holi (Hinduism)
17th Neurodiversity Celebration Week begins  
     
21st International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / World Down Syndrome Day  
30th  World Bipolar Day  Eid al-Fitr (Islam)
31st International Transgender Day of Visibility   

 

Day National/International Day  Religious Observation
1st Autism Awareness Month begins / Stress Awareness Month begins  
2nd World Autism Awareness Day / Autism Acceptance Week begins  
6th International Asexuality Day  
12th   Passover begins (Judaism)
13th    Vaisakhi (Sikhism)
18th   Good Friday (Christianity)
20th   Easter Sunday / Orthodox Easter (Christianity)
26th Lesbian Visibility Day  

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st Mental Health Awareness Month  
12th   Vesak
15th Global Accessibility Awareness Day  
17th International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia  

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
1st LGBTQ+ Pride Month begins / Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month begins/ Global Day of Parents  
5th World Environment Day  
6th    Eid-al-Adha (Islam)
9th Carer's Week begins  
14th Global Wellness Day   
18th Autistic Pride Day / South Asian Heritage Month begins  
20th World Refugee Day  
21st World Humanist Day  
22nd UK Windrush Day  

 

Date National/international day Religious Observation
1st Disability Pride Month begins  
14th International Non-Binary People's Day  

 

Date National/International Day Religious Observation
9th International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples  
22nd International Day commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief   
23rd International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition  

 

 

 

 

 

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