🎄 DECEMBER 2025 – UK & WORLD EVENTS CALENDAR

🎄 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

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