# Too many awareness days?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/02/06/too-many-awareness-days/
- Published: 2001-02-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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.

![Open 24 hours - roundel sign on a CVS carpet](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/
2001/02/open-24-hours-carpet-sally-mahoney-flickr.jpg)

“[CVS Open 24 hours](https://www.flickr.com/photos/90689439@N00/2613972183)” by 
[*Sally M*](https://www.flickr.com/photos/90689439@N00) is licensed under [CC BY-SA 2.0 ](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse).

## Advertisement

Read [Charities in competition for awareness days](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2001/feb/05/charities.voluntarysector)
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](https://fundraising.co.uk/tag/awareness-days/).**
 * **[Lists of awareness days for charities and campaigns](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/01/30/lists-of-awareness-days-for-charities-and-campaigns/)(
   30 January 2023)**
 * **[Count Me In online calendar seeks new sponsor](https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/11/15/count-me-online-calendar-seeks-new-sponsor/)(
   15 November 2005)**