Forthcoming Events
ADHD Awareness Month
Date: Wednesday 01st October 2025 to Friday 31st October 2025
Time: 09.00 to 23.30
ADHD
October is ADHD awareness month. Get Active4ADHDUK anyway you want – by walking, running, skipping, swimming, yoga, meditating or cycling, make this Active challenge individual to you, whilst raising vital funds for ADHD UK and be a part of positively changing what it means to have ADHD in the UK.
Remember to let your sponsors know of your daily activity completion via JustGiving by updating the ‘Share Your Progress’ box within your fundraiser.
Our Place, Our Say - Redcar - Thursday 9th October 2025
Date: Thursday 09th October 2025
Time: 10.00 to 15.00
For people who have a learning disability autistic people, friends and family
Free event: 10am – 3pm at the Coatham Memorial Hall, 7 Coatham Road, Redcar, TS10 1RH
- Meet staff from local organisations which provide support and advice
- Find our about local health and community services
- Find out what can help you and your family
- Have your say – tell us what you think about health and care near you
There will be live entertainment, stalls and information, craft activities, workshops, food/refreshments - drop in any time!
DAD are involved and will have a stand.
World Mental Health Day - 10th October
Date: Friday 10th October 2025
Time: 06.00 to 23.30
World Mental Health Day is celebrated every year on 10 October. The day is about coming together to talk about mental health and show everyone that mental health matters. Talking about our mental health can help us cope better with life’s ups and downs.
2025 Theme: Prioritizing Mental Health in the Workplace
The theme for World Mental Health Day 2025 is “It is time to prioritise mental health in the workplace” – a call to action that speaks to millions of people who spend the majority of their waking hours at work. Whether in an office, hospital, school, factory, or home environment, the workplace has a powerful impact on our emotional wellbeing. Yet for too long, mental health has been treated as a private issue rather than a workplace priority.
According to the Mental Health Foundation, poor mental health is responsible for more lost workdays than any other health condition. But it’s not just about absenteeism. Work-related stress, burnout, discrimination, and lack of support can erode confidence, productivity, and overall quality of life. And for marginalized groups, the risk is even greater due to systemic inequalities.
In 2025, this theme urges employers to move beyond token gestures and embed mental wellbeing into the culture of their organizations. That means offering training for managers, creating safe spaces for conversations, setting realistic workloads, and ensuring policies around harassment and discrimination are upheld. It also means recognizing the value of peer support, flexible schedules, mental health leave, and access to professional services.
Employees, too, can be part of the change by advocating for their rights, checking in on coworkers, and participating in workplace initiatives. When mental health is protected at work, it creates ripples that benefit families, communities, and entire economies.
For more guidance, the Mental Health Foundation provides a range of resources including the publication “How to Support Mental Health at Work”, which offers practical steps for both employers and employees to build supportive, mentally healthy workplaces.
National Hate Crime Awareness Week
Date: Saturday 11th October 2025 to Saturday 18th October 2025
Time: 09.00 to 23.00
17-24-30 was originally founded as a Facebook group in March 2009 by Mark Healey and Ryan Parkins to mark the 10th anniversary of the London Nail Bomb attacks on Brixton, Brick Lane, and Soho.
17-24-30 takes the first part of its name from the dates of the three attacks: the 17th, 24th, and 30th April 1999..
17-24-30 National Hate Crime Awareness Week exists to:
- Encourage Hate Crime Reporting to the police, councils, and independent third-party organisations.
- Organise the April Acts of Remembrance.
- Plan and facilitate National Hate Crime Awareness Week #NationalHCAW.
- Organise the Act of Hope and Remembrance for those affected by Hate Crime .
- Promote our annual H.O.P.E. Campaign.
- Develop Anti-Hate and Community Cohesion projects.
Our Place, Our Say - Darlington - Friday 17th October
Date: Friday 17th October 2025
Time: 10.00 to 16.00
For people who have a learning disability autistic people, friends and family
Free event: 10am – 4pm at the Dolphin Centre, Horsemarket, Darlington, DL1 5RP (enter via Bull Wynd)
- Meet staff from local organisations which provide support and advice
- Find our about local health and community services
- Find out what can help you and your family
- Have your say – tell us what you think about health and care near you
There will be live entertainment, stalls and information, craft activities, workshops, food/refreshments - drop in any time!
DAD are involved and will have a stand.
Our Place, Our Say - Hartlepool - 5th November 2025
Date: Wednesday 05th November 2025
Time: 10.00 to 16.00
For people who have a learning disability autistic people, friends and family
Free event: 10am – 4pm at the Centre for Independent Living, Burbank Street, Hartlepool TS24 7NY
- Meet staff from local organisations which provide support and advice
- Find our about local health and community services
- Find out what can help you and your family
- Have your say – tell us what you think about health and care near you
There will be live entertainment, stalls and information, craft activities, workshops, food/refreshments - drop in any time!
DAD are involved and will have a stand.
Our Place, Our Say - Middlesbrough - Tuesday 18th November 2025
Date: Tuesday 18th November 2025
Time: 10.00 to 16.00
For people who have a learning disability autistic people, friends and family
Free event: 10am – 4pm at the Middlesbrough Crypt and Old Fire Station, Albert Road, Middlesbrough,TS1 2QJ
- Meet staff from local organisations which provide support and advice
- Find our about local health and community services
- Find out what can help you and your family
- Have your say – tell us what you think about health and care near you
There will be live entertainment, stalls and information, craft activities, workshops, food/refreshments - drop in any time!
DAD are involved and will have a stand.
UK Disability History Month 2025
Date: Thursday 20th November 2025 to Saturday 20th December 2025
Time: 09.00 to 23.30
Disability, Life and Death
This year the value of Disabled People’s lives has been severely questioned. The Assisted Suicide legislation making its way through Parliament directly challenges Article 10 of the UNCRPD.
“States Parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life and shall take all necessary measures to ensure its effective enjoyment by persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others.”
Challenging the right to life of disabled people or ‘useless eaters’ as the Nazis of the 3rd Reich called us is not a new phenomenon.
So called ‘Mercy Killing’ or Euthanasia has been around as long as there have been human beings. The quality of our lives is often put forward by non-disabled medical experts who seek to impose non-disabled people’s values on us for letting us die.
Nearly every person with life long impairment will recite tales of how Doctors had told them and their parents they would not, live, walk, be educable and many such value judgements. And yet our history is full of disabled people who having received such dire warnings, have gone on to live worthwhile and productive lives. This is about providing disabled people with the adjustments and access they need, but most of all it is about challenging disabling attitudes and practices that still persist.
For more information: UK Disability History Month
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