August 2025 Awareness Days and Content Themes

Here are some well known awareness days for the month that you could reference or theme a post around if they are relevant to your audience.

Get creative with your interpretation of these days... how can you add a specific twist which adds value or shows personality?

Awareness Months for August 2025:

There are a few themes that stretch across the whole month, although not as many in August as other months. Many people will be on different schedules for school holidays, so this is worth bearing in mind.

Psoriasis Awareness/ Psoriasis Action Month

National Traffic Awareness Month 2025

Awareness Weeks in August 2025:

1st – 7th Aug – World Breastfeeding Week

11th – 17th Aug National Allotments Week

24th-28th Aug – World Water Week

Individual Awareness Days August 2025:

1st Aug – Yorkshire Day

2nd Aug – National Sunflower Day

3rd Aug – National Sisters Day

7th Aug – Cycle to Work Day

9th Aug – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

10th Aug – World Lion Day

12th August – National Middle Child Day

12th Aug – International Youth Day

12th Aug – World Elephant Day

13th Aug – International Left Handers Day

19th Aug - World Photography Day

19th Aug – World Humanitarian Day

20th Aug – National Bacon Lovers Day

23rd Aug – UNESCO Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

25th Aug - Monday Bank Holiday

26th Aug – National Dog Day

29th Aug – National Burger Day

*These dates are researched to the best of my ability but please check and take full responsibility for your own posting.

2025 Content Calendar

I've also put together a free download 2025 content ideas calendar PDF which you can have sent straight to your inbox here.

This is a combination of awareness days and content prompts to help you plan ahead so that you never run out of ideas or feel repetitive...

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