UK community action events

The focus of this article is UK-wide or large scale events which have the potential for large scale active and participatory involvement by community groups and active citizens. They'll tend to be free or low cost events. If you would like to suggest something for this page but are unsure how to edit it, please feel free to put your suggestion on the talk page. Similar pages focus on International community action events and UK local community action events

• Jan 23 - 25, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Big Garden Birdwatch, the world's biggest wildlife survey according to the RSPB, helping to get a better knowledge on bird population trends in Britain, rspb.org.uk

UK community action events/November-January video

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• Mar 13 - 29, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Great British Spring Clean and Great Big School Clean, Keep Britain Tidy call to help improve local environments, keepbritaintidy.org
• Mar 16 - 27, 2026 (Mon - Fri) — Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel, cycling, walking and scooting challenge for schools from Sustrans, bigwalkandwheel.org.uk

• Apr 24 - 30, 2026 (Fri - Thu) — The Big River Watch, theriverstrust.org
• Apr 28 - May 4, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — National Gardening Week, thousands of people sharing their love of gardening, hosting events and inspiring more people, particularly the next generation of gardeners, to experience the joy of growing and creating beautiful green spaces, rhs.org.uk

UK community action events/February-April video

• May 2026 — National Walking Month, livingstreets.org.uk
• May 4 - 10, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — National Hedgerow Week, hedgelink.org.uk
• May 12 - 16, 2025 (Mon - Fri) — Water Saving Week, waterwise.org.uk
• May 11 - 17, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Mental Health Awareness Week, mentalhealth.org.uk

• Jun 2025 — Month of Community, edenprojectcommunities.com
• Jun 5 - 8, 2026 (Fri - Mon) — The Big Lunch, the first weekend in June every year, everyone is invited, anyone can join in and whatever food people bring to the table is there to be shared, edenprojectcommunities.com
• Jun 1 - 7, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Neighbourhood Watch Week, ourwatch.org.uk
• Jun 1 - 7, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Volunteers Week, celebrating and saying thank you to the millions of volunteers across the UK, volunteersweek.org
• Jun 6 - 14, 2026 (Sat-Sun) — Great Big Green Week, celebrating communities taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, greatbiggreenweek.com
• Jun 07, 2026 (Sun) — Open Farm Sunday, farmsunday.org
• Jun 8 - 14, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Bike Week, annual celebration showcasing cycling and how brilliant it is!, cyclinguk.org
• Jun 8 - 14, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Carers Week, carersweek.org
• Jun 15 - 21, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Loneliness Awareness Week, lonelinessawarenessweek.org
• Jun 15 - 21, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Better Transport Week, annual, week-long celebration of sustainable transport, bettertransport.org.uk
• Jun 15 - 21, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Refugee Week, refugeeweek.org.uk
• Jun 18, 2026 (Thu) — Clean Air Day, actionforcleanair.org.uk
• Jun 19 - 21, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — The Great Get Together, annual celebration organised by The Jo Cox Foundation, helping unite people, bridge divides, and tackle loneliness, while showing the collective power we have as a community, jocoxfoundation.org
• Jun 29 - Jul 3, 2026 (Mon - Fri) — National Co-production Week, scie.org.uk

• Jul 1 - 14, 2026 (Wed - Tue) — Community Energy Fortnight, communityenergyengland.org
• Jul 02, 2026 (Thu) — Cycle to Work Day, cyclescheme.co.uk
• Jul 4 - 5, 2025 (Fri - Sat) — Independents' Day UK, independentsdayuk.org
• Jul 17 - Aug 9, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Big Butterfly Count, bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org
• Jul 19 - 25, 2025 (Sat - Fri), This year’s theme: community power! — Community Centre Week, octopuscommunities.org.uk
• Jul 24 - Aug 2, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Love Parks Week, Keep Britain Tidy

UK community action events/May-July video

• Aug 11 - 17, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — National Allotments Week, thenas.org.uk

• Sep 1 - 5, 2025 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk
• Sep 12 - 21, 2025 (Fri-Sun) — Heritage Open Days, celebrating our fantastic history and culture. Your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore, heritageopendays.org.uk
• Sep 19 - 28, 2025 (Fri-Sun) — Great British Beach Clean, mcsuk.org

• Oct 1 - 7, 2025 (Wed - Tue) — National Vegetarian Week, discover delicious dishes and see how a veggie diet is a great choice for the planet, nationalvegetarianweek.org
• Oct 05, 2025 (Sun) — Silver Sunday, The national day for older people. People of all generations can come together by hosting fun and free activities for older people, silversunday.org.uk
• Oct 05, 2025 (Sun) — Homeless Sunday, housingjustice.org.uk
• Oct 6 - 12, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Good Money Week, campaign to raise awareness of sustainable, responsible and ethical finance to help people make good money choices, goodmoneyweek.com
• Oct 18, 2026 (Sun) — Church Action on Poverty Sunday, taking place each year on the Sunday closest to the International Day for the Eradication on Poverty, church-poverty.org.uk

UK community action events/August-October video

• Nov 10 - 16, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk
• Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) — Kindness Day UK, Nov 13 annually, aiming to increase the value of kindness in society as well as increase the amount of kind acts that take place, making kindness a greater part in our daily life, kindnessuk.com
• Nov 16 - 22, 2025 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
• Nov 22 - 30, 2025 (Sat - Sun) — National Tree Week, The Tree Council's annual tree celebration. People across the country planting thousands of trees to mark the start of the winter tree planting season. "Trees and hedgerows are some of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.", treecouncil.org.uk

• Dec 06, 2025 (Sat) — Small Business Saturday, smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com

lapsed or no longer updated

• Good to Grow Week, goodtogrowuk.org, (2024)
• The Big Plastic Count, thebigplasticcount.com, (2024)
• Show the love, theclimatecoalition.org, (2024)
• National Meadows Day, meadows.plantlife.org.uk, (2023)
• Star Count, cpre.org.uk,(Star Count paused for 2024)
• Pop up Parklets Day 2022, link not found 11:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC)