UK community action events

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Location United Kingdom
Coordinates 54° 42' 8.48" N, 3° 16' 35.67" W

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

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January

  • Event Jan 24 - 26, 2025 (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

February

no events as yet

March

  • Event Mar 02, 2025 (Sun) — Church Action on Poverty Sunday, taking place each year on the last Sunday before Lent, church-poverty.org.uk
  • Event Mar 21 - Apr 6, 2025 (Fri - Sun) — Great British Spring Clean, Keep Britain Tidy call to help improve local environments, keepbritaintidy.org
  • Event Mar 24 - Apr 4, 2025 (Mon - Fri) — Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel, cycling, walking and scooting challenge for schools from Sustrans, bigwalkandwheel.org.uk

April

  • Event 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
  • Event Apr 25 - May 1, 2025 (Fri - Thu) — The Big River Watch, theriverstrust.org
  • Event 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

June

  • Event Jun 2025 — Month of Community, edenprojectcommunities.com
  • Event Jun 7 - 8, 2025 (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
  • Event Jun 1 - 7, 2025 (Sun - Sat) — Neighbourhood Watch Week, ourwatch.org.uk
  • Event Jun 2 - 8, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Volunteers Week, celebrating and saying thank you to the millions of volunteers across the UK, volunteersweek.org
  • Event Jun 7 - 15, 2025 (Sat-Sun) — Great Big Green Week, celebrating communities taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, greatbiggreenweek.com
  • Event Jun 08, 2025 (Sun) — Open Farm Sunday, farmsunday.org
  • Event Jun 9 - 15, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Bike Week, annual celebration showcasing cycling and how brilliant it is!, cyclinguk.org
  • Event Jun 9 - 15, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Carers Week, carersweek.org
  • Event Jun 9 - 15, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Loneliness Awareness Week, lonelinessawarenessweek.org
  • Event Jun 16 - 22, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Better Transport Week, annual, week-long celebration of sustainable transport, bettertransport.org.uk
  • Event Jun 16 - 22, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Refugee Week, refugeeweek.org.uk
  • Event Jun 19, 2025 (Thu) — Clean Air Day, actionforcleanair.org.uk
  • Event Jun 20 - 22, 2025 (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
  • Event Jun 30 - Jul 4, 2025 (Mon - Fri) — National Co-production Week, scie.org.uk

July

UK community action events/May-July video

August

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

September

  • Event Sep 1 - 5, 2025 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk
  • Event 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
  • Event Sep 19 - 28, 2025 (Fri-Sun) — Great British Beach Clean, mcsuk.org

October

  • Event 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
  • Event 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
  • Event Oct 05, 2025 (Sun) — Homeless Sunday, housingjustice.org.uk
  • Event 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

UK community action events/August-October video

November

  • Event Nov 10 - 16, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk
  • Event 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
  • Event Nov 16 - 22, 2025 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
  • Event 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

December

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