Ensure that your organisation is aware of upcoming National Health Awareness Days in 2024 and 2025 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 2024 and 2025. 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 2024
January
- 15th Brew Monday
February
- 1st Time to Talk Day - #TimeToT
- 5-11th Children's Mental Health Awareness Week #CMHAW24
- 17th Random Acts of Kindness Day #bekind
- 28-5th Eating Disorders Awareness Week #EDAW
March
- 1st Self Injury Awareness Day #SIAD
- 8th International Women’s Day #IWD
- 14th University Mental Health Day #UniMentalHealthDay
- 15th World Sleep Day #WorldSleepDay
- 20th International Day of Happiness #InternationalDayOfHappiness
- 18-24th Neurodiversity Celebration Week - #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
- 30th World Bi-Polar Awareness Day #WorldBipolarDay
April
- 2- 8th World Autism Acceptance Week 2024 #AutismAwarness
- 7th World Health Day #WorldHealthDay
- 28th World Health and Safety at Work Day #HealthAtWork
May
- National Walking Month #WalkThisMay
- 13-19th Mental Health Awareness Week #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
- 21st World Meditation Day #WorldMeditationDay
- 29 – 5th Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week #MaternalMHMatters
June
- Men’s Health Month #MensHealthMonth
- 21 June International Father’s Mental Health Day #FathersMentalHealthAwareness
July
- 24th Samaritans Awareness Day #SamaritansAwarenessDay
- 24th National Schizophrenia Awareness Day #RethinkMentalIllness
August
- Altruistic August #AltruisticAugust
September
- 10th World Suicide Prevention Day #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
- 23-27th (TBC) Happiness at Work Week #HappinessAtWorkWeek
October
- 10th World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHealthDay
- 18th World Menopause Day #WorldMenopauseDay
- 13-19th OCD Awareness Week #OCDAwarness 2nd week of October
November
- Movember – Men’s Health #Movember
- 4-8th International Stress Awareness Week #StressAwarenessWeek
December
- 5th International Volunteer Day - #IVD2024
Mental Health Awareness Days 2025
As not all of the dates for 2025 are yet confirmed, we've included some TBC estimates. We have made it clear when we do this and will update the calendar as dates are announced!
January
- 3rd Monday Brew Monday
February
- 6th Time to Talk Day - #TimeToT
- 1st week Children's Mental Health Awareness Week #CMHAW24
- TBC Random Acts of Kindness Day #bekind
- End Feb/early March Eating Disorders Awareness Week #EDAW
March
- 1st Self Injury Awareness Day #SIAD
- 8th International Women’s Day #IWD
- TBC University Mental Health Awareness Day #UniMentalHealthDay
- 14th World Sleep Day #WorldSleepDay
- 20th International Day of Happiness #InternationalDayOfHappiness
- 30th World Bi-Polar Awareness Day #WorldBipolarDay
- TBC Neurodiversity Celebration Week - #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
April
- 7th World Health Day #WorldHealthDay
- 28th World Health and Safety at Work Day #HealthAtWork
- 24-28th World Autism Acceptance Week #AutismAcceptanceWeek
May
- National Walking Month #WalkThisMay
- Mid-May Mental Health Awareness Week #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
- 21st World Meditation Day #WorldMeditationDay
- TBC Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week #MaternalMHMatters
June
- Men’s Health Month #MensHealthMonth
- Late June Father’s Mental Health Awareness Day - #FathersMentalHealthAwareness
July
- 24th Samaritans Awareness Day - #SamaritansAwarenessDay
- 24th National Schizophrenia Awareness Day #RethinkMentalIllness
August
- Altruistic August #AltruisticAugust
September
- 10th World Suicide Prevention Day #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
- Last week Happiness at Work Week #HappinessAtWorkWeek
October
- 10th World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHealthDay
- 2nd week OCD Awareness Week #OCDAwarness
- 18th World Menopause Day #WorldMenopauseDay
November
- Movember – Men’s Health #Movember
- TBC International Stress Awareness Week #StressAwarenessWeek
December
- 5th International Volunteer Day - #IVD2024
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.