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Key days in January 2025
Key days in February 2025
Key days in March 2025
Key days in April 2025
Key days in May 2025
Key days in June 2025
Key days in July 2025
Key days in August 2025
Key days in September 2025
Key days in October 2025
Key days in November 2025
Key days in December 2025
2025 Social Media Calendar and Template
Contains all of the key UK dates, plus an editable template for you to track your social campaigns.
How to use the free social media calendar download
The social media calendar can be effective in getting your audience to interact with your brand online. You can encourage your customers to join in the fun days by asking them to send in some images and use a particular hashtag or even just ask their opinion on something.
Our free social media calendar template includes two editable excel documents; one that’s prepopulated with all the key dates for 2025, and a blank 2025 calendar if you’d rather create your own from scratch.
You can download your 2025 social media calendar and template here!
It’s worth remembering that not all days listed here will be suitable for all industries, so be sure to pick key dates that are relevant to your business. For example, there are several food ones such as Veganuary or ‘eat what you want’ day, and these would be great for any food establishment.
Key dates for January 2025
January is abundant with great social media dates you can take advantage of. These are a few of our favourites.
Week-long/month-long events in January:
Dry January – Great if you plan to have an alcohol-free month and helps with the new year’s resolution of drinking less.
Veganuary – A month dedicated to veganism and its health benefits of it.
Key days in January:
1st – New Year’s Day – Time to start the new year as you mean to go on! #NewYearsDay
2nd – New Year’s Day (2nd Day) (Scotland only)
2nd – National Science Fiction Day – #ScienceFictionDay
3rd – Festival of sleep day
4th – World Braille Day – #WorldBrailleDay
4th – National Trivia Day – A day for sharing interesting and random facts. #NationalTriviaDay
5th – Twelfth Night – Time to make sure all those decorations are packed away!
5th – National Bird Day
6th – National Technology Day – Celebrate the past and present of technology and look to what the future holds.
6th – Epiphany
10th – National Houseplant Appreciation Day – #HouseplantAppreciationDay
10th – National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
11th – Heritage Treasures Day – Learn or teach others about the local heritage. #HeritageTreasures
18th – Get to Know Your Customers Day – How well do businesses know their customers? You could try polling them to find out more about them.#GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
20th– Blue Monday– Apparently the most depressing day of the year. #Blue
25th – Burns Night – Celebrate the life and poetry of Robert Burns
28th – Data Privacy Day – Something everyone needs to be aware of these days. #DataPrivacyDay #PrivacyAware
29th – Lunar New Year – It’s the year of the snake #LunarNewYear
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Key dates for February 2025
Moving on from January to the month of love. You are going to be seeing lots of pinks and reds this month, but there is more to February than romance and love hearts.
Week-long/month-long events in February:
3rd – 9th February – Children’s Mental Health Week – This year’s theme is Let’s Connect. This focuses on how children (and adults) can make meaningful connections
Key days in February:
2nd – World Wetlands Day
4th – World Cancer Day – A day to raise awareness of cancer and encourage detection and treatment. #WorldCancerDay
6th – Time to Talk Day – All businesses can get involved on this day and talk about the benefits of talking about any mental health issues. If you have employee assistance programs, then that is also worth a mention. #TimeToTalk
7th – Safer Internet Day – This year’s theme is Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online. #SID2025 #SaferInternetDay2025
9th – Super Bowl LIX – The most expensive advertising slot in the world. #SuperBowl #SuperBowlSunday #SuperBowl2025
13th – Galentines Day – A day for women to celebrate their friendships with their female friends. #Galentines
14th – Valentine’s Day – #ValentinesDay #Valentine
17th – Random Acts of Kindness Day – We love this one, we all get the chance to do one random act of kindness, a great way to show your business in a positive light. #RandomActsOfKindnessDay
20th – Love Your Pet Day – Cute pets can help to sell almost anything! #LoveYourPetDay
21st – Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday – #Pancakes
22nd – World Thinking Day
28th – Ramadan Start (Tentative Date)
28th – Rare Diseases Day – #ShareYourColours
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Key dates for March 2025
At the end of the month, we can move our clocks forward an hour and start having longer, lighter days again.
March is a bumper month for charity-themed months, and these month-long themed events can make excellent opportunities for businesses to raise funds for charities, whilst encouraging team building, and also creating opportunities for social media posts that can not only help your engagement, but further boost awareness of the fundraising initiatives too.
Week-long/month-long events in March:
Marie Curie’s Daffodil Appeal – Marie Curie take to the streets and sell their daffodil badges all to raise money.
Cancer Research’s Walk All Over Cancer – 10,000 steps a day for a month!
The British Heart Foundation also have a ‘Dechox’ where people are encouraged to go without chocolate for a month.
100 Miles for Mind – Get active and raise funds for Mind.
28th February – 30th March – Ramadan
17th – 26th March – English Tourism Week – If you are a tourism business, this week should help you promote your services. Get posting on social media and use #EnglishTourismWeek to increase your reach.
Key days in March:
1st – St David’s Day – A Welsh day to celebrate everything Welsh. #DyddGwylDewiSant #SaintDavidsDay
2nd – World Book Day – Visit a library or settle down with your favourite book. #WorldBookDay
2nd – University Mental Health Day – #UniversityMentalHealthDay
4th – Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday – #Pancakes
5th – Ash Wednesday – First day of lent
7th – National Employee Appreciation Day
8th – International Women’s Day – Celebrate women’s achievement and #EmbraceEquality. #IWD #InternationalWomensDay
17th – St Patricks Day – Embrace all the beauty from the emerald Isle. #StPatricksDay
18th – Global Recycling Day – This year’s theme is creative innovation.
20th – International Day of Happiness – What makes you happy? Why not post a positive message? Or have a surprise sale to brighten up your customer’s day. #InternationalDayof Happiness
21st – Red Nose Day/Comic Relief– Everyone loves to see businesses raise money for charity. #RND #RedNoseDay
22nd – Earth Hour – For one hour a year WWF encourages everyone to switch off the lights for an hour. #EarthHour
30th – Mother’s Day – Show your mothers how much you love them on Mother’s Day. #MothersDay #MotheringSunday
30th – Eid Al Fitr (Tentative Date)
31st – Transgender Day of Visibility – The #IAmEnough campaign has acceptance as its theme. #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility
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Key dates for April 2025
Easter provides a bumper bank holiday weekend this month, as well as an opportunity to encourage staff members to share pictures of their pets, what’s not to like?
Week-long/month-long events in April:
Stress Awareness Month – This event aims to raise awareness of stress and its negative consequences.
National Pet Month – #NationalPetMonth
Key days in April:
1st – April Fool’s Day – time to get pranking! #AprilFools
2nd – World Autism Awareness Day – Dedicated to helping raise awareness of autism. #WAAD #WorldAutismAwarenessDay
7th – World Health Day – Today marks the anniversary of the World Health Organisation (WHO), founded in 1948. #WorldHealthDay
10th – Sibling’s Day
11th – National Pet Day
12th – First Day of Passover
17th – Get to Know Your Customers Day – How well do you know your customers? #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
18th – Good Friday
20th – Easter Sunday
21st – Easter Bank Holiday Monday
21st – World Creativity
23rd – St George’s Day – The patrol saint of England is remembered on this day.
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Key dates for May 2025
A bumper month for bank holidays. April gave us a long Easter weekend, and May will be giving us 3 bank holidays (early May day, the Spring bank holiday, and the coronation of King Charles III).
Week-long/month-long events in May:
National Walking Month – All the benefits of walking.
Action on Stroke Month – again you can use this opportunity to fundraise for a worthy cause and share your efforts on social media.
12th – 25nd – Foster Care Fortnight – If you work within this sector, use this time to help spread the message about how important fostering is.
12th – 18th – Mental Health Awareness Week – #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
16th – 22nd – National Vegetarian Week – #Vegetarian
Key days in May:
1st – Early May Bank Holiday – #Bank Holiday
4th – Star Wars Day – #MayTheForthBeWithYou
5th – Cinco de Mayo – A Mexican yearly celebration. #CincoDeMayo
8th – World Red Cross Day
9th – Europe Day
12th – Fibromyalgia Awareness Day – One of the least understood illnesses that affect 1 in 20 people. #FibromyalgiaAwarenessDay
17th – International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBT) – Recognising and stopping all forms of abuse against the LGBT community. #IDAHOBT
20th – World Bee Day – Save the bees! #WorldBeeDay
26th – Spring Bank Holiday. #BankHoliday
30th – National Creativity Day – A day to celebrate everything creative (and be creative). #NationalCreativityDay
31st – National Smile Day – Say cheese! See if you can get a selfie of your cheesiest grin! #NationalSmileDay
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Key dates in June 2025
Halfway through the year, it’s summertime and the weather is warming up. This month is Pride month where we celebrate our LGBTQIA+ family.
Week-long/month-long events in June:
9th – 15th – Carers Week – If you work in the care industry why not use this time to highlight some of the wonderful things your carers do? You can post on social media, send an email with lots of updates, or even have some featured blogs on your website. #CarersWeek
Key days in June:
5th – World Environment Day – A UN initiative that encourages awareness and action around environmental issues. #WorldEnvironmentDay
5th – Thank You Day – Give thanks to your employees, your customers, and anyone you want to! #ThankYouDay
6th – National Fish & Chip Day – There is nothing batter than this seaside treat!
6th – Eid al-Adha (Tentative Date)
8th – World Ocean Day – Oceans cover 70% of our planet, so we are reliant on oceans to live. #WorldOceanDay
15th – Father’s Day – Time to celebrate the dads in our lives. #FathersDay
30th – Social Media Day – Celebrate the great relationships (and friendships) you have built on social media. #SocialMediaDay
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Key dates for July 2025
July and the weather should hopefully be hot and dry (we did say “should”…). Most schools break up this month and the summer holidays begin.
Week-long/month-long events in July:
30th June – 13th July – Wimbledon. Annual tennis tournament. #Wimbledon
Key days in July:
4th – Independence Day (observed in the US)
7th – World Chocolate Day – One of the most delicious days of the year! #WorldChocolateDay
14th – Bastille Day
17th – Get to Know Your Customers Day – Again, another opportunity to get to know your customers and make sure they still match your personas. #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
24th – 24/7 Samaritans Awareness Day – Raise awareness of the work of the Samaritans and discuss mental health issues.
30th – International Day of Friendship – Celebrate and be grateful for the friendships we have – #InternationalDayOfFriendship
Key dates for August 2025
Even though it’s still summer, this is when most businesses will be getting ready to plan their seasonal campaigns.
Key days in August:
1st – World Wide Web Day
8th – International Cat Day – #CatDay
9th – Book Lovers Day
14th – National Financial Awareness day
25th – Bank Holiday
26th – International Dog Day – #DogDay
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Key dates for September 2025
This month features Macmillan’s infamous Coffee Morning, so brush up on your baking skills and raise money for a worthwhile charity.
Week-long/month-long events in September:
19th – 28th – Great British Beach Clean – Get your business involved with local initiatives #CleanBeaches
Key days in September:
5th – International Day of Charity – Charities are vital and help many people in the world. All businesses could use today to donate to a charity.
12th – National Video games Day
21st – International Day of Peace – #InternationalDayOf Peace
22nd – Car Free Day – #CarFreeDay
Don’t forget to download your social media calendar and template!
Key dates for October 2025
The nights are drawing in and autumn is firmly upon us. It’s the month of cosying up, Halloween and pumpkin-flavoured everything!
Week-long/month-long events in October:
Black History Month – A month dedicated to black history. #BlackHistoryMonth
Stoptober – If you have been considering giving up smoking, this is the month to do it! If your business can help people quit, make sure you are promoting it this month. You can also offer tips and tricks to help those trying to quit.
Go Sober for October – Another charity day raising money by not drinking.
Key days in October:
1st – International Coffee Day – Commemorating our farmers, roasters, and coffee shop owners, where would we be without our morning pick me up? #CoffeeDay
1st – World Vegetarian Day
10th – World Mental Health Day – If you work in health then today you can post about mental health and some coping strategies. #WorldMentalHealthDay
11th – National Coming Out Day – A day to celebrate and raise awareness of the LGBT community.
15th – Global Wave of Light – At 7 pm the world lights a candle for those that have had the heartache of baby loss.
16th – World Food Day – #FoodDay
16th – Get to Know Your Customers Day – Drill down into your customers and find out what really makes them tick. #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay
31st – Halloween
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Key dates for November 2025
We are now firmly into the colder weather which means one thing; time to make sure you have your comms sorted for the festive season!
Week-long/month-long events in November:
Movember highlights the importance of men’s mental health and participants often try to grow the most spectacular facial hair.
Key days in November:
1st – World Vegan Day – Celebrate being meat-free
5th – Bonfire Night – While some love this night, others hate it. If you have anything that could help settle pets/children, get posting about your products in the run-up to tonight.
9th – Remembrance Sunday
11th – Remembrance Day
13th – World Kindness Day – How can your business show how kind it is? Could it be a charitable donation (or giving staff the afternoon off)?
14th – World Diabetes Day – Raise awareness of diabetes. A great day to post something if you are in health or even food. You can share some of the warning signs, or even a recipe.
19th – International Men’s Day – Raising awareness of issues men face.
20th – Diwali
28th – Black Friday – Are you having a Black Friday sale? It is one of the busiest days of a retailer’s year. Make sure you spread your message as far and wide as you can, on social media, email, and your website.
30th – St Andrew’s Day – A national holiday in Scotland where everything Scottish is celebrated. #StAndrewsDay
Don’t forget to download your social media calendar and template!
Key dates for December 2025
December will be a busy month for many businesses, there is just so much to do. We recommend that you plan as much as possible and schedule your social media messages in advance. You should also consider your opening hours over Christmas and the New Year.
Week-long/month-long events in December:
14th – 22nd – Hanukkah – Jewish festival
Key days in December:
1st – Cyber Monday
3rd – International Day of Persons With Disabilities – With 1:4 people having a disability, consider if your workplace has any barriers. #IDPWD
4th – World Wildlife Conservation Day
5th – International Volunteer Day – Celebrate those who volunteer. If your business relies on volunteers, make sure you give them a shout-out on social media today.
11th – Christmas Jumper Day – It’s the one day of the year when businesses get their staff to wear Christmas jumpers and make a small donation to charity.
24th – Christmas Eve – Make sure you update your business hours for the festive season.
25th – Christmas Day – Have a scheduled message go out over your social media wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
26th – Boxing Day – A bank holiday in the UK.
31st – New Year’s Eve – Make sure you have a scheduled post to go out wishing all your customers a happy new year. #HappyNewYear
Hopefully you’re now bursting with ideas for your 2025 social strategy and don’t forget to download our free social media calendar template to keep your content strategy on track all year long!
2025 Social Media Calendar and Template
Contains all of the key UK dates, plus an editable template for you to track your social campaigns.
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