Welcome to the The Food Calendar…
- Food related national days, weeks, and months for the UK
- Holidays
- Major events
The calendar is updated every month with new events. I’ve added a little *NEW* to the ones that have just been added to help you spot them.
If you know on an event that’s missing then please leave a comment below or contact me by email and I’ll add it in.
2018
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
January 2018
1 January – New Year’s Day
1-31 January – Dry January
1-31 January – Ginuary
1-31 January – Veganuary
6 January – National Shortbread Day
22-28 January – National Farmhouse Breakfast Week
25 January – Burn’s Night
25 January – St Dwynwen’s Day (Welsh Valentine’s Day)
27 January – International Chocolate Cake Day
February 2018
4 February – British Yorkshire Pudding Day
5 February – World Nutella Day
13 February – Shrove Tuesday
14 February – Valentine’s Day
16 February – Chinese New Year
22 February – National Toast Day
24 February – 4 March – Real Bread Week
25 February – 3 March – Cornish Pasty Week
26 February – 11 March – Fairtrade Fortnight
March 2018
1 March – St David’s Day
1-8 March – Dementia UK’s Time For A Cuppa
1-31 March – Veggie Month
5-11 March – British Pie Week
5-11 March – SPAM Appreciation Week
7 March – Plant Power Day
11 March – Mother’s Day
12-18 March – National Butchers’ Week
12-18 March – Nutrition & Hydration Week
12-18 March – National Salt Awareness Week
15 March – International School Meals Day
17 March – St Patrick’s Day
17-23 March – Sport Relief
*NEW* 21-31 March – International Sweet Potato Week
25 March – International Waffle Day
30 March – Good Friday
April 2018
1 April – April Fool’s Day
1 April – Easter Sunday
4 April – International Carrot Day
7 April – World Health Day
16-22 April – UK Coffee Week
21 April – National Tea Day
23 April – St George’s Day
23-30 April – British Beef Week
May 2018
5 May – Cinco de Mayo
11 May – Eat What You Want Day
12-19 May – The Children’s Trust National Doughnut Week
13 May – International Hummus Day
13 May – World Fairtrade Day
14-20 May – National Vegetarian Week
14-20 May – Coeliac Awareness Week
19 May – World Whisky Day
20-27 May – British Sandwich Week
*NEW* 28 May – World Hunger Day
28 May – 3 June – National Barbecue Week
TBC – British Tomato Week
June 2018
1 June – World Milk Day
1 June – National Fish & Chip Day
3 June – The Big Lunch
9 June – World Gin Day
10 June – Open Farm Sunday
11-15 June – Healthy Eating Week
14 June – Alzheimer’s Society – Cupcake Day
15 June – Beer Day Britain
15 – 24 June – National Picnic Week
17 June – Father’s Day
22-24 June – The Great Get Together
29 June – National Cream Tea Day
TBC – English Wine Week, Food Safety Week
July 2018
2-15 July – Wimbledon Fortnight
7 July – World Chocolate Day
16 July – National Cherry Day
TBC – SPANA’s World Tea Party
August 2018
13-19 August – National Allotments Week
22 August – World Plant Milk Day
*NEW* 23 August – National Burger Day
TBC – Afternoon Tea Week, Caribbean Food Week
September 2018
1-16 September – Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight
1-30 September – Organic September
1-30 September – Sourdough September
7 September – World Salami Day
13 September – International Chocolate Day
*NEW* 17-23 September – National Rice Week
22 September – 7 October – British Food Fortnight
23 September – 23 October – Seed Gathering Season
26 September – World School Milk Day
28 September – Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
TBC – Love Lamb Week, National Cupcake Week, Zero Waste Week
October 2018
1 October – World Vegetarian Day
1-7 October – National Cake Week
5-12 October – National Seafood Week
10 October – World Porridge Day
12 October – World Egg Day
15-21 October – National Baking Week
16 October – World Food Day
19 October – International Gin & Tonic Day
21 October – Apple Day
22 – October – National Nut Day
25 October – World Pasta Day
29 October – 4 November – UK Sausage Week
31 October – Halloween
TBC – International Coffee Day, Egg Week, Chocolate Week, RNLI Fish Supper, The Big Sausage Week, Buy British Day, Cook With Your Kids Day, Craft Bakers’ Week, National Curry Week, National Rice Week
November 2018
1 November – World Vegan Day
1-30 November – World Vegan Month
5 November – Guy Fawkes’ Night
12-16 November – National School Meals Week
19-25 November – British Game Week
25 November – Stir-Up Sunday
30 November – St Andrew’s Day
TBC – World Fairtrade Week, Children In Need
December 2018
25 December – Christmas Day
31 December – New Year’s Eve
Something missing?
If you know of an event that’s missing from the calendar then please let me know and I’ll be happy to add it in.
Brilliant idea, thanks.
Thanks for the information.
Amazing, such a useful post! Thank you 🙂
Charlotte this calendar is a brilliant idea and very helpful thankyou.
Hi Charlotte thanks so much for putting this together!! It will really help me with producing more content for my Instagram account
Hello Charlotte, I’m new here and I’m wondering what TBC means…
Well done you, this will give me plenty of ideas to do on my activities. Thank you!!!
It means I haven’t found an officially published date for the event but I’m checking every month and it’ll be added as soon as I know it. The month they’re added in assumes the don’t move too much from the previous year.
Awesome piece of content. This is going to help me open up my recipe book a lot more often in the future! My favourite has to be British Pie Week. Any excuse to make a home made pie! Thanks 🙂
they are absolutely fantastic! I am glad to see all small to large event 🙂 This is really helpful in building events calendar for the businesses like hotel and restaurants.
A very well done 🙂
Thank you once again.
Currently building a food day schedule for a food supplier business and this is an immense help. Thank you so much for all your effort – very much appreciated.
I love this Charlotte. You are a super star!
I know!
Ha ha 🙂
Hi there, I’ve just come across this, it’s fantastic, thank you!
Can I ask when you might be putting up next years or if you plan to as it’s very a very useful tool to use as a teacher and healthy schools coordinator!
I’ll be adding the 2018 calendar at the end of this month. It’s usually pretty empty at the start as a lot of event dates are yet to be set but I’ll keep updating it every month as and when I find new events/dates.
Thank you so much, this is really helpful!
Thank you so much for putting this list together! It was just what I was looking for today and you have saved me lot’s of hours looking through the Internet!!
Lianne | Makes, Bakes and Decor
This is so helpful as I run a weight loss business and send themed emails with recipes each week just seen that national curry week is 9-15 Oct 2017
Thanks Sue, I’ll get it added in my next update.
Hi Charlotte,
Thank you for the list, that is amazing… Just to double check, is it UK list?
Yes, although some of the days are international.
amazing resource thank you for putting in the time so I didn’t have to! You’re a star! x
This is great! Thank you for putting this together.
What a great resource! thanks for taking the time to create it. Will share on Twitter.
This is so helpful! Thank you.
This is absolutely amazing Charlotte, thank you so much! This is literally the best foodie-based resource I’ve found
Hi Charlotte,
This is super useful. Thanks! I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty to add the dates to a Google Calendar and made it public so that I can share with my friends. I’ve added your hashtag in the description as well. You can find it here:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nomenome.com_piaaijfpk92cmfdfal5jnu3uc0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London
and can follow it via this iCal:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/nomenome.com_piaaijfpk92cmfdfal5jnu3uc0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
If you like to add the events yourself, more than happy to add you as a contributor
Best
Danny
Danny this calendar is AWESOME!!!!! Thank you for sharing it in the comments, you and Charlotte are now my foodie heroes xx
Hi Danny,
Awesome work. This is really useful for me adding these dates into my Google Calendar as I can theme my teaching on them.
Is the .ICS calendar being updated? Do the events repeat each year?
Many thanks
Hello Charlotte,
Could you please add International Beer and Pizza Day to your list? It is celebrated October 9th each year, so, this Sunday. You can find more info about it on the official site: https://beerandpizzaday.com
Thank you!
Added. Thanks for letting me know about it.
This is such an amazing resource. I’m a food marketeer and totally agree that this is an awesome tool. My husband is French so I had a look on some french websites and found the following:
24 Feb – International Barmen Day
6 May – International No Diet Day
14 Aug – International Rosé wine Day
7 Sept – World Salami Day
13 Sept- World Peanut Day
20 Oct – International Cooks Day
26 Oct – World Pasta Day
There were lots more days that I think were only in France. My favourite was 16 Jan – hot & spicy food day!
Thanks so much for this Amanda. I’ve quickly added the October events in and I’ll look at adding the others over the next few days.
Fantastic list, as a restaurant marketeer this is an awesome tool to keep track of events. I think the only one I’d point out is National Burger Day – August 24th.
Many thanks for putting it together
This is great, I work for a catering butchers and this info will be used for a wall planner for next year.
Thank Charlotte, keep up the good work
Thanks Jamie, I’m really glad to hear you find it useful 🙂
This is brilliant! I use this every year to help planning our food related promotions
By the way, World Fairtrade Day has been confirmed for the 13th May
http://wfto.com/events
Thank you for putting this together!! x
Thanks Aimee, I’m really glad you find it useful and thanks for letting me know about World Fairtrade Day I’ll get it added in for my next update.
Shrove Tuesday should be 28th Feb 2017 🙂
Oops – serves me right for copying the 2016 calendar and changing the dates as I missed one. Thanks for letting me know, I’ll fix it now.
This is a great tool for planning social media! Thanks Charlotte!
Thanks Charlotte, I’m glad you find it useful.
This is really useful Charlotte, thank you for compiling. I am a campaign partner for Food Standards Agency, could you please add Food Safety Week 3rd to 10th July 2016? possibly too late now. I am running a marketing strategies for Food businesses seminar on Tuesday and will be sharing your calendar and hashtag there.
Hi Hazel, I’ve added it to my calendar. It’s been on my list to add for a while but I hadn’t been able to find any details (including dates) when I googled it so couldn’t add it in.
Really useful, helped me put together a marketing calendar.
Excellent. I add new events in every month as I find them or dates for events are confirmed so keep checking back.
Just stumbled across this while searching for something else – so useful! Thanks so much for putting together. X
Thanks Mandy, I hope you find it useful x
Just started blogging and this will be so helpful when Im stuck for ideas. Thank you so much. will link when i get a chance . Have also subscribed to your blog
‘National Yorkshire pudding day 2016’ is bringing you up as forth hit in google btw!
4th! Who do they think it more important than me!! 🙂
This is great thank you Charlotte. My sister and I started blogging on baby led weaning last year and I wanted a food calendar to help with ideas – googled it and found this! Perfect. Will have to try the ‘linky’ thing when we post a relevant blog!
Sarah x
http://www.minimunchclub.com
Thanks Sarah, I’m so glad you find it useful. You’re very welcome to come and join the linky whenever you want x
Bookmarked!
Would Super Bowl Sunday party food be a thing? I can see Feb is already looking pretty busy, and it’s a very American-centric affair.
Yes, definitely a thing. I probably won’t add it into to calendar to keep it managable (I have a huge spreadsheet of events that I check the dates for each month!), but you’re more than welcome to add super bowl themed posts to the linkup.
Thank You for putting this together. So useful for planning my year of social media posts! 🙂
Thanks Richard, I’m so glad you find it helpful.
This is so useful…I did know you had it on your blog, but I hadn’t really looked at it properly…but now I am thinking about the year ahead, so I thought I’d pop over and take a look and it’s brilliant!! Thanks for compiling it 🙂
Thanks Eb. It’s been very popular this week, I suspect everyone is trying to get organised for the new year.! I update it towards to end of each month so make sure you check back again, I’ve got a big list of events that haven’t got dates for yet that will be added.
Thanks Charlotte, I will check back again…although the events you already have are more than enough for me to be getting on with…it’s amazing how many foodie days and weeks there are in a year! Eb x
You should look at what they have in the US – there seems to be a day for pretty much every type of food you can think of!
Ahh, thanks for keeping this up to date, Charlotte – it’s so useful for planning the year ahead! Happy New Year!!
I’m so glad you find it helpful. I usually update it just before the end of each month so make sure you check back regularly.
You’re the best, this is so helpful for planning next year!!
Aww thanks Emma. I keep it updated at least once a month so make sure you check back for new events (especially for later in the year as a lot of the dates for events haven’t been confirmed yet).
Fab!
This list is amazing ! Thank you for sharing, gives a real good reason to cook something scrumptious, and then blog and celebrate it too. 🙂
Thanks Krati, I’m glad you find it useful. I keep it updated every time I discover something new so don’t forget to check back.
Solange of Pebble Soup and I we have Inheritance Recipes challenge (with prizes) finishing on the 24th of each month: http://www.coffeeandvanilla.com/inheritance-recipes/
What a lovely idea for a linky. My granny recently gave me all of her old recipe books so I’ll definitely come and link them when I try some of them.
This is such a fabulous idea, thank you so much! I’ll definitely keep coming back to keep myself updated.
Thanks Julia. I update it every time I hear about something new so don’t forget to check back, and if you ever hear of something I’m missing then let me know!
National burger day is this Thursday 27th August.
Thanks Neal. I’ll add it in.
This is SO useful, thank you for putting it together. Might have a few themed post ideas coming up now…
I’m so glad you find it useful. You’re very welcome to join in #FoodYearLinkup if you do. I Always love to see what people have been creating.
This has been so useful! I’m going to keep coming back to this. Thanks so much!
Thanks. I update it once a month to add in anything I’ve found so it’s definitely worth coming back to see what’s new.
Hey Charlotte, I just wanted to thank you so much for creating this list – it’s so so useful. I’ll definitely be sharing and spreading the word! x
Thanks Leili. It’s lovely to hear when people are using the calendar and find it useful. I update it to add new events every month so keep checking back and if you ever hear of anything I’m missing then let me know x
Wow what a fantastic list! Thanks for sharing I have been looking for something like this for a few weeks now. I’ll definitely be linking up x
Thanks Kirsty, I’m so glad you find it useful. I set it up because I was hunting for something similar and couldn’t find it. If you ever hear of anything that’s missing then let me know and I’ll add it in.
Looking forward to seeing what you decide to link up.
Love it! Looking forward to Breakfast week.
Thanks for linking up. Your recipes look delicious as usual.
Hey lovely,
Just a quick message to let you know I just linked to your great little calendar in my latest post! x
Thanks Mel, that’s so lovely of you. I;m glad you’ve found it useful.
Off to make myself a cup of tea and then I’ll come and have a look 🙂
wow this is amazing!!! 😀
Thanks so much
Thanks Howie
That’s absolutely fab, love it! Thanks for putting it together and sharing it. Mel
Thanks Mel. I’m planning on updating it regularly to add new events as I hear about them.
This is brilliant. Thank you xx
Glad you find it useful x