Ordinary

One of the biggest fundraising events in the calendar.

Pancake Day

International Volunteers Day offers an opportunity for volunteer organisations and individual volunteers to make visible their contributions - at local, national and international levels - to the achi

The Annual Scrooge Awards are given to the meanest retailers of charity Christmas cards on the high street.

www.charitiesadvisorytrust.org.uk

Social Enterprise Day encourages people to generate enterprising ideas which will lead to social and environmental change and, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, will harness the enterprising id

WaterAid is aiming to help the 2.5 billion people - 40% of the world’s population - without access to a toilet. The lack of clean water and sanitation causes 5, 000 deaths every day worldwide.

This is the day the UN has adopted as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

It is commemorated around the globe as no country or community is immune from road crashes. Even US

This year Deafness Research UK is encouraging pedestrians to remove their headphones while crossing the road in a bid to reduce hearing-related road traffic accidents.

www.deafnessresearch.org.uk

Orangutan Awareness Week is an annual event that creates a focus for groups or individuals to hold fundraising events and raise awareness of the threats to orangutans and their rainforest habitat.

Go on - wear something WOW for World Orphan Week 9-15 February 2009!