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 - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
January[edit | edit source]
Jan 12 - 15, 2024 (Fri - Mon) — Great Winter Get Together, a weekend of community events around the UK where people can find meaningful connection in January, inspired by Jo Cox’s passion for strengthening communities and improving the UK’s response to the loneliness crisis, jocoxfoundation.org- Jan 26 - 28, 2024 (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
February[edit | edit source]
- February, 2024 — Show the love, every February, growing public support for climate action through local events, heartfelt conversations and green heart craftivism in every corner of the country, theclimatecoalition.org
- Feb 11, 2024 (Sun) — Church Action on Poverty Sunday, taking place each year on the last Sunday before Lent, church-poverty.org.uk
March[edit | edit source]
- Mar 11 - 17, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — The Big Plastic Count, helping citizens and communities be part of the push on government, brands and supermarkets to take bold action to tackle the plastic crisis, thebigplasticcount.com
- Mar 11 - 22, 2024 (Mon - Fri) — Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel, cycling, walking and scooting challenge for schools from Sustrans, bigwalkandwheel.org.uk
- Mar 15 - 31, 2024 (Fri - Sun) — Great British Spring Clean, Keep Britain Tidy call to help improve local environments, keepbritaintidy.org
April[edit | edit source]
- Apr 22 - 29, 2024 (Mon - Mon) — Good to Grow Week, community gardens event to inspire and engage the next generation of growers, attract more volunteers to your project and connect your community to the wider movement, goodtogrowuk.org
- Apr 29 - May 5, 2024 (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
May[edit | edit source]
- May 2024 — National Walking Month, livingstreets.org.uk
- May 6 - 12, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — National Hedgerow Week, hedgelink.org.uk
- May 13 - 17, 2024 (Mon - Fri) — Water Saving Week, waterwise.org.uk
- May 13 - 19, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Mental Health Awareness Week, mentalhealth.org.uk
June[edit | edit source]
- Jun 2024 — Month of Community, edenprojectcommunities.com
- Jun 1 - 2, 2024 (Sat - Sun) — 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, 2024 (Sat - Fri) — Neighbourhood Watch Week, ourwatch.org.uk
- Jun 3 - 9, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Volunteers Week, celebrating and saying thank you to the millions of volunteers across the UK, volunteersweek.org
- Jun 8 - 16, 2024 (Sat-Sun) — Great Big Green Week, celebrating communities taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, greatbiggreenweek.com
- Jun 08, 2025 (Sun) — Open Farm Sunday, farmsunday.org
- Jun 10 - 16, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Bike Week, annual celebration showcasing cycling and how brilliant it is!, cyclinguk.org
- Jun 10 - 16, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Carers Week, carersweek.org
- Jun 10 - 16, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Loneliness Awareness Week, lonelinessawarenessweek.org
- Jun 17 - 23, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Better Transport Week, annual, week-long celebration of sustainable transport, bettertransport.org.uk
- Jun 17 - 23, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Refugee Week, refugeeweek.org.uk
- Jun 20, 2024 (Thu) — Clean Air Day, actionforcleanair.org.uk
- Jun 21 - 23, 2024 (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
July[edit | edit source]
- Jul 01, 2023 (Sat) — National Meadows Day, meadows.plantlife.org.uk
- Jul 1 - 5, 2024 (Mon - Sat) — National Co-production Week, scie.org.uk
- Jul 1 - 14, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Community Energy Fortnight, communityenergyengland.org
- Jul 6 - 7, 2024 (Sat - Sun) — Independents' Day UK, independentsdayuk.org
- Jul 12 - Aug 4, 2024 (Fri - Sun) — Big Butterfly Count, bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org
- Jul 26 - Aug 4, 2024 (Fri - Sun) — Love Parks Week, Keep Britain Tidy
August[edit | edit source]
- Aug 01, 2024 (Thu) — Cycle to Work Day, cyclescheme.co.uk
- Aug 12 - 18, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — National Allotments Week, thenas.org.uk
September[edit | edit source]
- Sep 2 - 6, 2024 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk
- Sep 6 - 15, 2024 (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 20 - 29, 2024 (Fri-Sun) — Great British Beach Clean, mcsuk.org
- Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — Good Money Week, campaign to raise awareness of sustainable, responsible and ethical finance to help people make good money choices, goodmoneyweek.com
October[edit | edit source]
- Oct 1 - 7, 2024 (Tue - Wed) — National Vegetarian Week, discover delicious dishes and see how a veggie diet is a great choice for the planet, nationalvegetarianweek.org
- Oct 06, 2024 (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 06, 2024 (Sun) — Homeless Sunday, oasiscommunityhousing.org
November[edit | edit source]
- Nov 6 - 12, 2023 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk
- Nov 13, 2024 (Wed) — 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 17 - 23, 2024 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
- Nov 23 - Dec 1, 2024 (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
December[edit | edit source]
- Dec 07, 2024 (Sat) — Small Business Saturday, smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com
Past events[edit | edit source]
lapsed or no longer updated
- Sep 25, 2022 (Sun) — Pop up Parklets Day 2022, theparkletscampaign.com
- Sep 22 - 24, 2023 (Fri-Sun) — Big River Watch, theriverstrust.org, date not found 07:59, 18 June 2024 (UTC)~
- Feb 17 - 24, 2023 (Fri - Fri) — Star Count, stargazing activity for the whole family, cpre.org.uk (Star Count paused for 2024)
- May, 2022 Walk in the Woods
- Jul 19 - 25 Community Centre Week, 2021, Mon-Sun octopuscommunities.org.uk
- Oct 17 - 24 One World Week, 2021: Sun-Sun One World Week
