December - Dates for your Calendars
Every year, I wonder how it is December, again! We look forward to a month filled with get togethers with friends and family, eggnog and all the other good stuff.
Here are some dates (in addition to the obvious, of which I am sure you don't need reminding!)
Importantly, December 2nd is Small Business Saturday, a good reminder to support your local people running small businesses.
🧡 This month is:
🎄Christmas
👗 Dressember
🩸HIV/AIDS Awareness Month
1st - World AIDS Day, Advent begins
2nd - Small Business Saturday (UK), English Breakfast Day, National Grief Awareness Week, UAE National Day, Day for the Abolition of Slavery,
3rd - Start of Advent, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Positivity Purple
4th - National Sock Day, National Cookie Day, Wildlife Conservation Day
5th - International Volunteer Day, World Soil Day, Krampusnacht
6th - St Nicholas Day, Elf Day
7th - Hanukkah (7th-15th), Christmas Jumper Day, Pearl Harbour Remembrance Day
8th - Bodhi Day (Japan), Chocolate Brownie Day
9th - Christmas Card Day, International Anti-corruption Day, World Techno Day
10th - Human Rights Day, Nobel Prize Day, Animal Rights Day
11th - International Mountain Day, Green Monday
12th - Gingerbread House Day
13th - Hot Cocoa Day, St Lucia Day
14th - National Monkey Day
15th - Wear a Christmas Hat Day, Ugly Christmas Jumper Day
16th - National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
17th - Maple Syrup Day
18th - International Migrants Day
21st - Last day of term in most UK schools, National Robin Day
22nd - Winter Solstice
23rd - Christmas ‘Eve Eve’
24th - Christmas Eve
25th - Christmas Day
26th - Boxing Day, Kwanzaa begins
27th - National Fruitcake Day
31st - New Year’s Eve, Hogmanay (SCT)
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N.B. we try our best to make sure these are complete and accurate - but we're only human, so please double check any important dates.