Spring Has Arrived

If you’d like to spend your Spring days involved in community activities, rather than Spring Cleaning, here is a list of Community Days and Weeks in September:

• 1st September – Wattle Day, a celebration of Australia – http://www.wattleday.asn.au/about-wattle-day – this year the Golden Wattle Award went to Health Workers
• 1st-8th September – Adult Learners Week, https://adultlearnersweek.org/
• 7-11th September – Jean Hailes Women’s Health Week – https://www.womenshealthweek.com.au/
• 10th September – World Suicide Prevention Day – https://www.qmhc.qld.gov.au/awareness-promotion/suicide-prevention/world-suicide-prevention-day
• 12th September – RUOK Day – https://www.ruok.org.au/join-r-u-ok-day
• 21st September – World Gratitude Day https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-gratitude-day/ and International Day of Peace https://internationaldayofpeace.org/

September is also:

• Save the Koala Month  – https://www.savethekoala.com/deborahs-diary/save-koala-month
• Dementia Awareness Month – https://www.finder.com.au/dementia-awareness-month
• Social September – Reach 0 disconnect from digital lives and create face-to-face interaction (bearing in mind COVID restirctoins of course!) – https://www.facebook.com/SocialSeptember/
• Liptember – all about Women’s Mental Health – https://www.liptember.com.au/

So plenty to keep you occupied during the month!