Awareness Days Archives

You can access details and information relating to charity and informative Awareness days that are being held in the UK. In some cases the events are actually global, giving everyone relative information.

We have included Awareness Days that relate to the medical sector as this is of specific interest. Local and National events are included to give you all access to valid and up-to date information.

Each year there are a number of Awareness Days published. Sometimes they include longer time periods such as Movember.

Movember is a men’s health awareness month. It looks at issues that men face such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. In Movember you are encouraged to raise money by growing a moustache. This event has been running since 2003 and has globally raised millions of £’s.

World COPD Day – 15th November 2017

Wednesday the 15th November is World COPD day and the British Lung Foundation are raising awareness of COPD. They are trying to find the missing millions across the UK who have this condition and don’t even know it. The British Lung Foundation want to help suffers to get the treatment and support they deserve. What is COPD? Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), describes a group of lung conditions that make it difficult to empty air out of the lungs because the airways have been narrowed. Two of these lung conditions are persistent bronchitis and emphysema. These two conditions can occur…

Stoptober 2017

Health Insurers define a smoker as anyone who has used tobacco products in the past 12 months. This is regardless of whether or not you are only an occasional smoker.

Back Care Awareness Week – 2nd -6th October 2017

This week is Back Care Awareness Week and BackCare, the UK’s National Back Pain Association, has partnered with kidsbacks4thefuture, a multi award winning social enterprise, to educate children and young people about the importance of taking care of their backs during childhood and teenage years. With many of the back and neck pain problems experienced by adults due to them not looking after their backs during childhood and teenage years, there are many ways we can teach children to take care of their backs and here are some effective tips provided by kidsbacks4thefuture, all of which can help prevent future…

National Glaucoma Awareness Week

This week 5th to 11th June, 2017 is Glaucoma Awareness Week. The International Glaucoma Association (IGA) is a UK charity for people with glaucoma and they are educating people about the importance of eye pressure as part of a regular eye health check. What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is the name given to a group of eye conditions. It is where the main nerve to the eye is damaged where it leaves the eye. This nerve is known as the optic nerve. It carries information about what is being seen from the eye to the brain and as it becomes damaged…

Dementia Awareness Week 14th – 20th May 2017

Dementia is caused when the brain is damaged by diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease or a series of strokes. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of Dementia, but not the only one.

On your toes for national walking month

Living Streets is the UK charity for everyday walking and their aim is to create a walking nation that is free from congested roads and pollution reducing the risk of preventable illness and social isolation and to make walking the natural choice.

National Stop Snoring Week

This week is National Stop Snoring Week and the British Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association are raising awareness about the negative effect the noise of snoring can have on all areas of our wellbeing. The level of noise that starts to have an effect on sleep is around 40Db. The noise of snoring can range from about 50dB to 100+Db. Why it is important to help people to stop snoring? Aside from the fact that snoring is irritating and annoying the noise of loud snoring over an extended period of time can also cause a number of symptoms: – Sleep…

Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

April is Bowel Cancer Awareness month. Bowel Cancer UK are focusing on raising awareness for bowel cancer screening, which aims to detect bowel cancer at an early stage. Treatment has the best chance of working for people who have had an early diagnosis. Bowel Cancer UK are the UK’s leading Bowel Cancer research charity. Why is it important to raise awareness about Bowel Cancer screening? The charity confirm that in some areas of the UK only a third who receive a screening test in the post complete it. This leaves thousands of people missing out on a vital way of…

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