June
June facts:
Birthstone = Pearl
This month is:
National Osteoporosis Month
Everyman Male Cancer Awareness Month
National Microchipping Month
17th May – 16th June
National Smile Month
Special Weeks in June
1st – 7th
Volunteers’ Week
2nd – 8th
Hearing Dog Week
3rd – 11th
Heart Week
4th – 10th
Down’s Syndrome Awareness Week
8th – 12th
National School Grounds Week
8th – 14th
Carers Week
13th – 21st
National Bike week
15th – 21st
National Food Safety Week
15th – 21st
Refugee Week
21st – 27th
Deafblind Awareness Week
21st – 29th
National Insect Week
22nd – 28th
Child Safety Week
22nd – 26th
Design and Technology Week
1st
June Bank Holiday – ROI
Thursday of the first full week in June
Riding the Marches
Hawick, Roxburghshire & Selkirk, Selkirkshire
First week of June
Beating the Clock race
Bideford, Devon
4th
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Thursday of the week 6th – 12th
Lanimer Day
Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland
5th
World Environment Day
8th
World Oceans Day
11th
Corpus Christi – Catholic Christian
14th
World Blod Donor Day
Mid June
Beltane Festival
Peebles, Peebleshire, Scotland
16th
Guru Arjan Dev Martyrdom – Sikh
Day of the African Child
19th
Shades Day
Sacred Heart of Jesus – Catholic Christian
20th (on or near)
Electing the Mayor of Ock Street
Abingdon, Berkshire
20th
BT Giant Sleepover
National Badger Day
World Refugee Day
21st
Summer Solstice – Longest Day of the Year
Fathers Day
Litha – Wicca Northern Hemisphere
Yule – Wicca Southern Hemisphere
First Nations Day – Canadian native People
23rd
Midsummer’s Eve
Druid’s Ceremony, Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
23rd
Banishing the Witches
St. Cleer, nr Liskeard, Cornwall
23rd
St John’s Eve Midsummer Bonfires
Cornwall
23rd
National Falls Day
24th
John the Baptist’s Birth – Christian
24th to 28th June
Glastonbury Festival
25th
Bring Your Bear
26th
Wrong Trousers Day
27th
Veterans Day
28th
Warrington Walking Day
Warrington, Lancashire
30th
Braw Lads’ Gathering
Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland
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