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Too many awareness days?
Howard Lake | 6 February 2001 | News
Awareness days and weeks are an established fundraising and campaigning tool for many charities.
However, there are now twice as many such occasions as there were in 1996. To complicate matters the commercial sector now accounts for 10% of these days with events such as National Chip Week, National Toast Day, and Sausage Awareness Week. UK Fundraising features some of these days in our coming up column* to help charities plan ahead.
“CVS Open 24 hours” by *Sally M* is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 
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Read Charities in competition for awareness days by David Batty at SocietyGuardian.
* The ‘coming up’ column ran to the right of the main column for many years, throughout the site, featuring an up to date list of upcoming conferences, charity awareness days, and key dates for the fundraising sector.
- Find out more about charity awareness days.
- Lists of awareness days for charities and campaigns (30 January 2023)
- Count Me In online calendar seeks new sponsor (15 November 2005)
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.