The University focusses on these six commemorative events throughout the year:

• Disability History Month
• Race Equality Week
• International Women’s Day
• Campus Pride
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day
• Armed Forces Day

If you have any thoughts or ideas on how to celebrate, please contact diversity@bath.ac.uk.

Please note religious holidays are yet to be confirmed, and will be updated on this page in October 2025.

The dates in this calendar are not a prescriptive list. You are welcome to contact the Culture and Inclusion team on diversity@bath.ac.uk to suggest other noteworthy dates.

Our expectation is that staff and student requests to be absent due to religious commitments are dealt with sympathetically by departments. Student Support and HR are available to provide guidance if required.

September

• 10: World Suicide Prevention Day
• 18: International Equal Pay Day
• 15-21: World Childless Week
• 22-24: Rosh Hashanah
• 23: Bi Visibility Day
• 23: International Day of Sign Languages
• 26: European Day of Languages

October

• Black History Month
• 1-2: Yom Kippur
• 8: Ada Lovelace Day
• 10: World Mental Health Day
• 11: National Coming Out Day
• 18: World Menopause Day
• 19-25: Asexual Awareness (Ace) Week
• 20-21: Diwali
• 26: Intersex Awareness Day

November

• Movember (Men's Health Awareness Month)
• 5: Guru Nanak Dev Ji Gurpurab
• 11: Remembrance Day
• 13-19: Trans Awareness Week
• 20 Nov-20 Dec: Disability History Month
• 19: International Men's Day
• 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance
• 23: Carers Rights Day
• 28: World Access to Higher Education Day

December

• 2: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
• 3: International Day of Disabled Persons
• 10: Human Rights Day
• 14-22: Hanukkah
• 18: International Migrants Day
• 25: Christmas Day

January

• 4: World Braille Day
• 19: World Religion Day
• 27: Holocaust Memorial Day

February

• LGBT+ History Month
• 1-7: World Interfaith Harmony Week
• 2-8: Race Equality Week
• 9: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
• 17 Feb-18 Mar: Ramadan
• 17 Feb-3 March: Chinese New Year
• 20: World Day of Social Justice
• 21: International Mother Language Day

March

• 4: Holi
• 8: International Women's Day
• 12: University Mental Health Day
• 18: Eid ul-Fitr
• 31: International Transgender Day of Visibility

April

• 2: Autism Awareness Day
• 3: Good Friday
• 5: Easter Sunday
• 14: Vaisakhi
• 26: Lesbian Visibility Day

May

• 6-12: Deaf Awareness Week
• 11-17: Mental Health Awareness Week
• 17: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)
• 21: Global Accessibility Awareness Day
• 26-30: Eid ul-Adha

June

• LGBTQ+ Pride Month
• 1: Global Day of Parents
• 1-7: Volunteers’ Week
• 9-15: Carers Week (TBC)
• 15-21: World Refugee Week
• 20: World Refugee Day
• 22: Windrush Day
• 23: Women in Engineering Day
• 26: Armed Forces Day
• 26: Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising

July

• 12: Malala Day
• 14: International Nonbinary People's Day
• 18 Jul-17 Aug: South Asian Heritage Month
• 30: World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

August

• 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
• 12: International Youth Day
• 19: World Humanitarian Day
• 23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition