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EDI Calendar and Past Events


 

EDI Calendar 2024-25

For our third year, we are pleased to present Royal Holloway's EDI Calendar for 2024-25. 

Emerging from the work of our Inclusive Culture and Environment Strategy Group, the calendar comprises four core months based on national awareness campaigns, and aligning with the Liberation Months recognised by our Students' Union. For each of these months, events involving both colleagues and students will provide opportunities to engage with important discussions around equity and inclusion. Other dates will be recognised in University communications.

We hope you will join us in participating in EDI events, and embracing related training opportunities, to support the further development of our University's inclusive and supportive community. Our vision is for diversity confidence to become firmly rooted at the core of our institutional and individual practices, so that we are all able, and supported, to flourish at Royal Holloway.

If you would like to see recordings of previous events, please visit our archive using the following links:

 

Month

Core Months

Other Dates

September 2024

 

East and South East Asian Heritage Month

23 – Bi Visibility Day

24 – International Age Diversity Day

October 2024

Black History Month

2 - 4 – Rosh Hashanah (Judaism)

3 - 12 – Navratri (Hinduism)

10 – World Sight Day

11 - 12 – Yom Kippur (Judaism)

18 – World Menopause Day

November 2024

Disability History Month

(14 November –
20 December 2024)

Islamophobia Awareness Month

Men’s Health Awareness Month (Movember)

1 – Diwali (Hinduism, Sikhism)

9 – International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism 

13 - 19 – Transgender Awareness Week (20 – Transgender Day of Remembrance)

25 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (White Ribbon Day)

28 – Thanksgiving

29 – International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

December 2024

Disability History Month

(14 November –
20 December 2024)

1 – World AIDS Day

18 – International Migrants Day

25 – Christmas Day (Christianity)

25 December - 2 January – Hannukah (Judaism)

January 2025

 

14 – Mahayana New Year (Buddhism)

27 – Parent Mental Health Day

29 – Year of the Snake

February 2025

LGBT+ History Month 

3 - 9 – Race Equality Week

11 – International Day of Women and Girls in Science

21 – International Mother Language Day

March 2025

Women's History Month

8 – International Women's Day

13 – University Mental Health Day

14 – Holi (Hinduism)

17 - 23 – Neurodiversity Celebration Week

21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

30 – 31 Eid al-Fitr (Islam) (Date dependent on sighting of the moon)

April 2025

 

Stress Awareness Month

6 – International Asexuality Day

12 - 20 – Passover (Judaism)

14 – Vaisakhi/Baisikhi (Sikhism)

20 – Easter Sunday (Christianity)

22 – Stephen Lawrence Day

May 2025

 

5 – May Day (International Workers Day)

5 - 11 – Deaf Awareness Week

5 - 11 – Maternal Health Awareness Week

12 – Vesak/Wesak (Buddhism)

12 - 18 – Mental Health Awareness Week

17 – International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)

June 2025

 

LGBT+ Pride Month

1 – Global Day of Parents

6 – Eid al-Adha (Islam)

16 - 22 – Refugee Week (20 – World Refugee Day)

22 – Windrush Day

July 2025

 

18 July - 17 August – South Asian Heritage Month

August 2025

 

1 - 7 – World Breastfeeding Week