🎄 DECEMBER 2025 – UK & WORLD EVENTS CALENDAR
- Simon O'Donovan
- Oct 31
- 2 min read
🎄 DECEMBER 2025 – UK & WORLD EVENTS CALENDAR
Holidays • Festivals • Awareness Days • Regional Occasions
(Perfect for CST discussion, reminiscence & planning)
🗓️ Month-long Themes
🎁 Safe Toys & Gifts Month 👨🦱 Decembeard (men’s health) 👁️ Gift of Sight Month
🌍 Universal Human Rights Month 🗣️ Learn a Foreign Language Month
📅 Key Dates
Mon 1 Dec - 🌈 World AIDS Day
Mon 1 Dec - 🏴 St Andrew’s Day (Scotland)
Tues 2 Dec - 💖 Giving Tuesday
Tues 2 Dec - ✊ International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Wed 3 Dec - ♿ International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Thu 4 Dec - 🌱 Wildlife Conservation Day
Thu 4 Dec - 🏦 International Day of Banks
Fri 5 Dec - 🙌 International Volunteer Day
Fri 5 Dec - 🌾 World Soil Day
Sun 7 Dec - ✈️ International Civil Aviation Day
Wed 10 Dec - 🕊️ Human Rights Day
Thu 11 Dec - 🏔️ International Mountain Day
Thu 11 Dec - 🙋♂️ Christmas Jumper Day
Sun 14 - Mon 22 Dec - 🕎 Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights)
Sun 21 Dec - 🌅 Winter Solstice
Wed 24 Dec - 🎅 Christmas Eve
Thu 25 Dec - 🎄 Christmas Day
Fri 26 Dec - 🎁 Boxing Day
Wed 31 Dec - 🎆 New Year’s Eve
🌍 Regional Highlights
🏴 Scotland - St Andrew’s celebrations
🏴 Wales - Cardiff Christmas Market
🍀 Northern Ireland - Belfast Light Trail
🏴 London - Winter Wonderland & Trafalgar Square Menorah
💡 CST Activity Ideas
🗣️ Reminiscence: “Favourite Christmas memory?”
✈️ “First time you flew?”
🎨 Creative: Make ‘Wish for the World’ cards for Human Rights Day
🕯️ Crafts: Hanukkah candles collage
🏮 Winter Solstice lanterns
🎄Christmas wreaths
💬 Simon’s CST Activities
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