The birthday of famous deafblind person, Helen Keller, falls on 27 June and marks the start of this year’s Deafblind Awareness Week.
The week itself aims to raise awareness about deafblindness and increase the support for deafblind people and their families. There will be events and activities held nationwide which everybody get involved with, including a huge Drumathon event with up to 10,000 children from primary schools playing the drums.
Our theme to help celebrate Deafblind Awareness Week 2011 is ‘Journeys’
www.sense.org.uk/dbaw

Refugee Week 20 – 26 June 2011

Refugee Week is a unique opportunity to discover and celebrate the contributions refugees bring to the UK.
During Refugee Week loads of events take place across the UK, all of which explore refugee experiences. Whatever you’re into – be it arts, music, food or just meeting people in your local area – Refugee Week will have an event for you.
This year is the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention. In order to mark the occasion and link it to Refugee Week 2011, our theme for this year will be 60 Years of Contribution.

This years theme is ‘Recycling – Home and Away‘.  It’s all about the positive cumulative effect we can all make by recycling just a little bit more; whether it’s doing more of what we already do at home or starting to recycle at work or while out and about.
Below you can find out more on how to get involved this Recycle Week.
What is Recycle Week?
Recycle Week is an annual event and the perfect opportunity to highlight the many ways we can do just a little bit more to help our local environment.  There are lots of easy things we can all do, including:
•    recycling glass jars as well as bottles;
•    recycling things from upstairs as well as downstairs;
•    reusing, recycling or donating unwanted items;
•    recycling at school, work or while out and about.

Team Green Britain Bike Week is the UK’s biggest mass participation cycling event – last year almost half a million people participated at events across the country. The aim is to get more people cycling, more often, and it the event offers something for everyone – from families, schools and companies, to seasoned cyclists and those who have never cycled before.

Seafarers Awareness Week (6-12 June) is the UK’s annual promotion that focuses on the essential work done by seafarers to keep our island nation supplied with fuel, food and goods.
Seafarers Awareness Week is coordinated and promoted by Seafarers UK to raise public awareness of:
seafarers (men and women in the Merchant Navy, fishing fleets and the Royal Navy)
the work done by seafarers and its importance to everyone in the UK
everyday risks, challenges and stresses faced by many seafarers
seafarers’ welfare needs, during and after employment, and those of their dependants.

The Fostering Network’s Foster Care Fortnight is the UK’s biggest annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and attract new foster carers. In 2011 it will run from 16 to 29 May.
Under the strapline fostering: time to care, this year’s campaign will highlight the urgent need for more foster carers and call on everyone to get behind fostering and support children in care.

Whether you are going door-to-door collecting, arranging an event in your local area, or simply want to donate online, we’ve got all the resources you need to make the week an outstanding success.

National Walk to Work Week, 9-13 May 2011, is the ideal time to give walking a go. An easy form of exercise requiring no special equipment, walking can be fitted in on your way to or from work, at lunchtime or throughout the day.
During the Week you’ll be able keep track of your walking online, see your miles walked and calories burned mount up, and earn online rewards for your achievements. You can even compete with colleagues to see who can be “top walker”.
Register your workplace at My Living Streets and get your colleagues to sign up too. At the moment the online tool is only open for registrations and additional functionality will be available closer to the Week. You might want to read our event guide to get more information about the Week and how to make use of the tool.

World Asthma Day is organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) in collaboration with health care groups and asthma educators to raise awareness about asthma and improve asthma care throughout the world.

Do you fancy yourself as a bit of a soul diva? Maybe you’re the next Aretha Franklin or you could give Take That a run for their money? Show off your talents, get sponsored for a good cause and put yourself or your group in the limelight for Asthma UK’s Big Sing Song.

Spare a thought for the many thousands of animals needing our help each year and do something for RSPCA Week.

http://www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/getfundraising/rspcaweek