January 2010
Folk, Fact and Sayings about January

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1 January 2010 - New Years Day projectbritain.com

January 2010 - Christmas Card Recycling
January 2010 WH Smith will be collecting in their mainland stores and Tesco will be collecting in most stores.

4 January 2010 - World Braille Day 2010
Louis Braille's Birth Date: 4 January 1809
An annual opportunity for blindness organizations to promote braille literacy, showcase their work and raise public awareness of blindness issues.

5 January 2010 - Twelfth Night

6 January 2010 - Epiphany (Christian) projectbritain.com
Celebrates the visit of the wise men (the magi) to the infant Jesus.

17 January 2010 - World Religion Day -
Annually the third Sunday in January. The aim of World Religion Day is to foster the establishment of interfaith understanding and harmony by emphasizing the common denominators underlying all religions.

18 Jan - 1 February 2010 - Big Schools Garden Watch
The schools based version of the RSPB's long-running Big Garden Watch.

25 - 29 January 2010 - Food Allergy and Intolerance Week
A campaign to raise awareness about the many people who suffer from food intolerance to ingredients such as wheat, dairy, eggs, and gluten.

25 - 29 January 2010 - Cancertalk Week projectbritain.com
Focuses on the emotional and practical issues of the impact experienced by people living with cancer.

25 January 2010 - Burns Night 

24 - 30 January 2010 - Farmhouse Breakfast Week
The campaign aims to highlight the importance of breakfast and the range and quality of regional breakfast produce available in the UK.

25 - 30 January 2010 - BE LOUD! BE CLEAR!
Loud Tie campaign is a major awareness and fundraising campaign for the national bowel cancer charity, Beating Bowel Cancer.

27 January 2010 - Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day is about commemorating and continuing to learn from the events of the Holocaust.
HMD is marked each year on 27 January – the anniversary of the date of the liberation of Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. projectbritain.com

29 January 2010 - RNLI SOS day
SOS day is the RNLI's national fundraising day.

30 January - 6 February 2010 - National Storytelling Week
An annual event which aims to raise awareness of this ancient form of entertainment. Over 350 nationwide storytelling events and performances were organised this year for National Storytelling Week in Theatres, Book Shops, Libraries, Schools, Museums, Arts Centres, Storytelling Clubs, Retirement Homes and Pubs!

30 - 31 January 2010 RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch Weekend
The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch is the world's biggest bird survey and the results help the RSPB to keep track of bird populations right across the UK. Just watch and count the birds in your garden or local park for an hour and submit your results.