It's 'No Charity' Week!

It's Easter Week - so amazingly this is the one week of the year which does not have a national or international charity designated for it.

So here's a list of just a few of the rivetting events and non-events that you either missed out on already this year...

January kicked off with Food Allergy and Intolerance Week (24th - 27th),a campaign to raise awareness about the many people who suffer from food intolerance to ingredients such as wheat, dairy, eggs, and gluten. And in case you have really bas food habits that can make you ill, this coincides with Cancertalk Week.

Don't miss Farmhouse Breakfast Week (23rd - 29th)! Oh, sorry, you already did. This campaign aims to highlight the importance of breakfast and the range and quality of regional breakfast produce available in the UK

Or there's National Storytelling Week (29th - 5th Feb) which aims to 'raise awareness of this ancient form of entertainment'.

February kicks off with National Apprenticeship Week, followed by National Marriage Week. Celebrated in churches and communities across the country - the purpose of the Week is to celebrate the importance of marriage. It's also, ironically, World Orphan Week

This is followed by National Nest Box Week (15th - 21st) which aims to get as many people as possible to put up nest boxes in order to help our breeding birds and other wildlife. Fortuitously, you needn't go hungry as you do this as it's also National Chip Week - celebrating the nation's favourite food

Then there's Student Volunteering Week (21st - 27th) - an opportunity to keep the great unwashed ON the streets for a change! Perhaps they could put up some nest boxes?

28 February - 13 March is a BOGOF! It's Fair Trade Fortnight where students spend a whole two weeks contemplating where their food comes from and how they can help people in poorer countries. Yeah, right...

1st - 31st March is useful for those poor students doing all that comtemplating, because it's National Bed Month!

6th - 12th March is National Glaucoma Week - probably due to all that contemplation, we are seeking to arouse awareness of eye disease.

11th -20th March is National Science and Engineering Week. Says a lot that all these brainy scientists have found a way to make a week last a whole 10 days!

14th - 20th March is Brain Awareness Week which promotes awareness of research into the brain

21st - 27th March is Salt Awareness Week - aiming to educate the public as to the importance of salt in the diet. Shame it didn't coincide with Chip Week.

March ends with Hospital Broadcasting Week, the annnual opportunity to raise the profile of every hospital broadcasting station in the UK. Wow!

April gets a couple of whole month events - National Autism Month and National Pet Month. Plus 10th - 16th is World Homeopathy Awareness Week, and then to bring the month to a close we have RSPCA Week

Oh and did I forget to mention World Braile Day, SOS Day, World Wetlands Day, World Cancer Day, UNICEF Day for Change, Safer Internet Day, National Doodle Day, Gold Heart Day, International Mother Language Day, World Thinking Day, The Toddle Waddle, International Childrens Book Day, World Health Day, World Haemophilia Day, Earth Day, World Book and Copyright Day, World Malaria Day and Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day...

Still, if you did miss a few, there's the rest of the year to go yet.

After all, you wouldn't want to miss Be Nice to Nettles Week, would you?