Ensure that your organisation is aware of upcoming National Mental Health Awareness Days in 2025 and 2026 with our helpful calendar. Find days to focus your employees on their personal wellbeing, as well as raise awareness of mental health within your workplace.
We celebrate key mental health and wellbeing awareness days throughout the year to help raise awareness of mental health and well-being issues.
Below is a list of key dates for mental health awareness days for 2025 and 2026. As these are great days to celebrate on social media, we've also included some helpful hashtags.
If you're looking to raise mental health awareness and celebrate one of these mental health awareness days in a meaningful way, why not run a Corporate Wellness Lunch and Learn or an Online Employee mental health awareness session?
For any other help with your organisation’s mental wellbeing strategy contact us to speak to one of our wellbeing experts.
Mental Health Awareness Days 2025
January
- 20th Brew Monday #brewmonday
February
- 6th Time to Talk Day - #TimeToT
- 3rd-9th Children's Mental Health Awareness Week #CMHAW25
- 17th Random Acts of Kindness Day #bekind
- 24th-2nd Eating Disorders Awareness Week #EDAW
March
- 1st Self Harm and Self Injury Awareness Day #SIAD
- 8th International Women’s Day #IWD
- 13th University Mental Health Day #UniMentalHealthDay
- 14th World Sleep Day #WorldSleepDay
- 20th International Day of Happiness #InternationalDayOfHappiness
- 17-23rd Neurodiversity Celebration Week - #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
- 30th World Bi-Polar Awareness Day#WorldBipolarDay
April
- Stress Awareness Month #StressAwarenessMonth
- World Autism Acceptance Month #AutismAwareness
- 7th World Health Day #WorldHealthDay
- 28th World Health and Safety at Work Day #HealthAtWork
May
- National Walking Month #WalkThisMay
- 5-11th Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week#MaternalMHMatters
- 12-18th Mental Health Awareness Week #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
- 21st World Meditation Day #WorldMeditationDay
June
- Men’s Health Month#MensHealthMonth
- 21st International Father’s Mental Health Day #FathersMentalHealthAwareness
- 9th-15th Loneliness Awareness Week #Loneliness
July
- 24th Samaritans Awareness Day #SamaritansAwarenessDay
- 25th National Schizophrenia Awareness Day #RethinkMentalIllness
August
- Altruistic August #AltruisticAugust
- 14th National Financial Awareness Day #FinancialAwareness
September
- 10th World Suicide Prevention Day #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
October
- 6th-10th Happiness at Work Week #HappinessAtWorkWeek
- 10th World Mental Health Day#WorldMentalHealthDay
- 12-18th OCD Awareness Week #OCDAwareness
- 18th World Menopause Day #WorldMenopauseDay
November
- Movember – Men’s Health #Movember
- 3rd – 7th International Stress Awareness Week #StressAwarenessWeek
- 17th-23rd National Self-Care Week #SelfCare
December
- 1st - 5th National Grief Awareness Week #GriefAwareness
- 5th International Volunteer Day - #IVD2025
Mental Health Awareness Days 2026
As not all of the dates for 2026 are yet confirmed, we've included some TBC estimates.
January
- 19th Brew Monday #brewmonday
February
- 6th Time to Talk Day - #TimeToT
- 1st Week Children's Mental Health Awareness Week #CMHAW26
- 17th Random Acts of Kindness Day #bekind
- TBC Eating Disorders Awareness Week #EDAW
March
- 1st Self Harm and Self Injury Awareness Day #SIAD
- 8th International Women’s Day #IWD
- TBC University Mental Health Day #UniMentalHealthDay
- 14th World Sleep Day #WorldSleepDay
- 20th International Day of Happiness #InternationalDayOfHappiness
- 16-22th Neurodiversity Celebration Week - #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
- 30th World Bi-Polar Awareness Day#WorldBipolarDay
April
- Stress Awareness Month #StressAwarenessMonth
- World Autism Acceptance Month#AutismAwareness
- 7th World Health Day #WorldHealthDay
- 28th World Health and Safety at Work Day #HealthAtWork
May
- National Walking Month #WalkThisMay
- TBC Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week#MaternalMHMatters
- Mid May Mental Health Awareness Week #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
- 21st World Meditation Day #WorldMeditationDay
June
- Men’s Health Month#MensHealthMonth
- TBC International Father’s Mental Health Day #FathersMentalHealthAwareness
- TBC Loneliness Awareness Week #Loneliness
July
- 24th Samaritans Awareness Day #SamaritansAwarenessDay
- 25th National Schizophrenia Awareness Day #RethinkMentalIllness
August
- Altruistic August #AltruisticAugust
- 14th National Financial Awareness Day #FinancialAwareness
September
- 10th World Suicide Prevention Day #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
October
- TBC Happiness at Work Week #HappinessAtWorkWeek
- 10th World Mental Health Day#WorldMentalHealthDay
- 13th– 17th OCD Awareness Week #OCDAwareness
- 18th World Menopause Day #WorldMenopauseDay
November
- Movember – Men’s Health #Movember
- TBC International Stress Awareness Week #StressAwarenessWeek
- TBC National Self-Care Week #SelfCare
December
- 1st - 5th National Grief Awareness Week #GriefAwareness
- 5th International Volunteer Day - #IVD2026
Do you run a mental health awareness day that we've not listed? Please get in touch and we'll add it to our calendar.
Please note that this blog is updated regularly and was originally published in 2020.