Calendar

2017

January

  • 1st – New Year’s Day
  • 26th – Australia Day

February

  • 1st – SCC Major Grants round opens
  • 1st-28 REDFEB (Heart Research Australia)
  • 8 HAP Meeting (Agenda item: High Tea Planning)

March

  • 5th-11th (tbc) World Glaucoma Week (Glaucoma Australia)
  • 8th HAP High Tea Planning Meeting
  • 13th SCC Major Grants round closes
  • 13th-20th Coeliac Awareness Week (Coeliac Australia)

April

  • 3rd (tbc) Be Alarmed! Change your smoke alarm battery!!
  • 11th World Parkinson’s Day (Parkinson’s Victoria)
  • 12th HAP Meeting
  • 14th Good Friday
  • 17th Easter Monday
  • 22nd Earth Day (Earth Day Network)
  • 25th Anzac Day

May

  • 1st Labour Day (Qld)
  • 6th-13th Heart Week (Heart Foundation)
  • 7th Mother’s Day
  • 8th-14th (tbc) National Volunteer Week (Volunteering Australia)
  • 10th HAP High Tea Planning Meeting
  • 23rd Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea (Cancer Council)
  • 21st-27th Kidney Health Week (Kidney Health)
  • 21st-27th (tbc) National Palliative Care Week (Palliative Care Australia)
  • 28th Pay it Forward Day

June

  • 14th HAP Meeting
  • 15th World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (United Nations)
  • 12th-18th (tbc) International Men’s Health Week (Men’s Health Information and Resource Centre)

July

  • 2nd-9th NAIDOC Week (NAIDOC)
  • 9th-15th (tbc) Diabetes Awareness Week (Diabetes Australia)
  • 12th-18th National Blood Donor Week (Australian Red Cross Blood Service)

August

  • 9th HAP Meeting
  • 19th-27th Seniors Week –Qld (COTA)
  • 20th-27th Hearing Awareness Week (Deafness Forum of Australia)
  • 23rd Seniors High Tea
  • 25th (tbc) Daffodil Day (Cancer Council Australia)

September

  • 1st-30th Dementia Awareness Month (Alzheimer’s Australia)
  • 1st -30th Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia)
  • 4th Father’s Day
  • 4th-8th (tbc) Women’s Health Week (Jean Hailes for Women’s Health)
  • 8th R U OK? Day (R U OK?)
  • 11th-17th (tbc) National Stroke Week (National Stroke Foundation)
  • 18th -24th Parkinson’s Awareness Week (Parkinson’s Australia)

October

  • 1st-31st Mental Health Awareness Month (Mental Health Association)
  • 1st-31st Breast Cancer Awareness month (National Breast Cancer Foundation)
  • 2nd Queens Birthday Observance (Qld)
  • 9th -15th Mental Health Week (National Mental Health Commission)
  • 11th HAP Meeting
  • 15th-21st National Week of Deaf People (Deaf Australia)
  • 16th-22nd (tbc) National Carers Week (Carers Australia)
  • 20th World Osteoporosis Day (International Osteoporosis Foundation)

November

December

  • 13th HAP Christmas Meeting