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

Monday 2nd May to Sunday 8th May 2011 is Deaf Awareness Week when organisations working with deaf people across the country are inviting everyone to ‘Look At Me’. The theme aims to improve understanding of the different types of deafness by highlighting the many different methods of communication used by deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people, such as sign language and lipreading.
Supported by over one hundred deaf charities and organisations under the umbrella of the UK Council on Deafness, Deaf Awareness Week involves a UK wide series of national and local events. “The UK Council on Deafness are delighted to coordinate the all-inclusive Deaf Awareness Week campaign, promoting the positive aspects of deafness, social inclusion and raising awareness of the huge range of local and national organisations that support deaf people and their family and friends.”

The eleventh annual international Compost Awareness Week (CAW) will be celebrated from Sunday 1st to Saturday 7th May 2011 and this is your opportunity to get involved!
CAW 2011 aims to encourage more people to realise the benefits of home composting and the great results that can be achieved by using peat-free composts containing recycled material.
“Compost Awareness Week 2011: Pass It On”
The theme for CAW2011 focuses on community spirit and the concept of ‘passing on’ your composting and garden knowledge. You may want to encourage those already composting, growing their own veg, and just being a ‘greener’ gardener (perhaps using water butts, or peat-free compost) to pass their knowledge and skills on to friends, family and neighbours.