Key wellbeing dates August 2025
Looking to support a cause, raise awareness, or plan your wellbeing initiatives around key dates in your workplace? Below you’ll find a regularly updated list of health and wellbeing charity days, weeks, and month-long observances, handily organised by country.
World+
Month-long health awareness themes
- Happiness Happens Month
Specific Days and Weeks
- 1-7 August | World Breast Feeding Awareness Week
- 1 August | World Lung Cancer Day
- 9 August | International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
- 12 August | International Youth Day
- 18 August | Never Give Up Day
- 19 August | World Humanitarian Day
- 21 August | International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
- 23 August | International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- 24 – 28 August | World Water Week
New Zealand+
Month-long health awareness themes
- Money Month
Specific Days and Weeks
- 1 – 7 August | Aotearoa NZ Breastfeeding Week
- 3 – 9 August | Cook Islands Language Week
- 11 – 17 August | Te Wiki Hauora Wāhine (Women’s Health Week)
- 29 August | Daffodil Day
Australia+
Month-long health awareness themes
- Tradies National Health Month
Specific Days and Weeks
- 4 – 10 August | Dental Health Week
- 4 August | National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day
- 7 August | Jeans for Genes
- 8 August | Red Nose Day
- 11 – 15 August | Bullying No Way – National Week of Action
- 18 – 24 August | National Brain Injury Awareness Week
- 21 August | Daffodil Day
- 29 August | Wear It Purple Day
United Kingdom+
Month-long health awareness themes
- National Road Victim Month
- Psoriasis Awareness Month
Specific Days and Weeks
- 7 August | Cycle to Work Day
- 8 August | National CBD Day
- 14 August | National Financial Awareness Day
United States+
Month-long health awareness themes
- Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
- Gastroparesis Awareness Month
- National Breastfeeding Month
- National Immunization Awareness Month
- Psoriasis Awareness Month
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
Specific Days and Weeks
- 1 August | National Minority Donor Awareness Day
- 3 August | Cloves Syndrome Awareness Day
- 3 – 9 August | National Health Center Week
- 7 August | Purple Heart Day
- 14 August | National Financial Awareness Day
- 26 August | Women’s Equality Day
- 30 August | National Grief Awareness Day
Germany+
Month-long health awareness themes
- Monat der Impfaufklärung (National Immunization Awareness Month)
- Nationaler Monat der Verkehrssicherheit (National Road Victim Month)
Specific Days and Weeks
- 1 – 7 August | Weltweite Woche des Stillens (World Breastfeeding Week)
- 12 – 18 August | OSHA’s Safe + Sound Week
- 19 August | Welttag der humanitären Hilfe (World Humanitarian Day)
- 31 August | Internationaler Tag der Überdosis-Aufklärung (International Overdose Awareness Day)
Spain+
Month-long health awareness themes
- Mes de la Concienciación sobre la Psoriasis (Psoriasis Awareness Month)
- Mes de la Concienciación sobre la Inmunización (Immunization Awareness Month)
Specific Days and Weeks
- 1 – 7 August – Semana Mundial de la Lactancia Materna (World Breastfeeding Week)
- 12 August | Día Internacional de la Juventud (International Youth Day)
- 19 August | Día Mundial de la Asistencia Humanitaria (World Humanitarian Day)
- 31 August | Día Internacional de la Concienciación sobre la Sobredosis (International Overdose AwarenessDay
