Month of Community activities
Discover how you can support our amazing partners during the Month of Community.
June kicks off a whole Month of Community, where we celebrate everything that makes our communities great.
We believe that we’re better together. The Month of Community is an opportunity to bring our neighbourhoods closer, give back, and shine a light on the amazing communities we live in.
Our brilliant partners all have a range of activities to help you get involved in the Month of Community, from community events and celebrations to opportunities to support a variety of charities and causes.
Find out what you can do below.
The Big Lunch
7-8 June 2025
Holding a Big Lunch is the perfect way to celebrate the Month of Community – a chance to get together and celebrate everything that makes your community great. Big Lunches help to:
- reduce loneliness and isolation
- build community connections
- fundraise for your community
- say thank you to your neighbours or volunteers
Neighbourhood Watch Week
1-7 June 2025
This year is the 40th anniversary of Neighbourhood Watch Week and you are invited to be part of it!
Have a Grow
Saturday 7 June 2025
On Saturday 7th June, you are invited to open up your growing spaces to show off your vibrant spaces and fill them with laughter and learning. Whether you’re a seasoned Have a Grow-er or just curious about getting your group involved, there’s something for everyone.
We’ve got a range of guides to help you get started with growing in your community, and top tips from our friend and community gardener Kathryn!
Plant flowers in your street Top tips from a community gardener
Volunteers’ Week
2 – 8 June 2025
Volunteers are the backbone of UK communities, driving countless activities and initiatives. That’s why Volunteers’ Week is dedicated to honouring and recognising their hard work and invaluable contributions each year.
Organisations can host their own events to celebrate volunteers – here at Eden Project we’ll be thanking and celebrating our amazing team of volunteers.
Great Big Green Week
7-15 June 2025
Could you organise an event for Great Big Green Week in your local area? What about encouraging simple changes to help everyone be that bit kinder to the planet?
That might be swapping a single-use item for a more sustainable alternative, swapping plants and seeds with your community, or swapping knowledge on making your house as energy efficient as possible!
We’ve put together 52 sustainable little swaps – they’re a great way to get started.
Loneliness Awareness Week
9-15 June 2025
Loneliness Awareness Week is run by our friends at the Marmalade Trust, who are passionate about raising awareness of loneliness and helping people make new friendships.
We know how much of a barrier loneliness can be to chatting to others and connecting with a community. We’ve got some advice on how to talk to anyone, plus team member Tracey talks about her own experience of loneliness.
How to talk to anyone Say no to ‘tackling’ loneliness – Tracey’s story
Carers’ Week
9-15 June 2025
Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK.
We’re encouraging everyone to celebrate the carers in their lives – whether that’s doing a kind deed for them, giving them a shout out on social media or just giving them an extra big hug.
Refugee Week
15-22 June 2025
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. The theme of this years’ campaign is: community as a superpower
Everyone is invited to spend time with friends and build new connections in and beyond our neighbourhoods. From communal meals and open air film screenings, to football matches and music making, let’s share the feelings of welcome and belonging. Listening, learning, laughing together.
Windrush Day
22 June 2025
Windrush Day marks the anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948.
It is an opportunity to recognise and thank all those who arrived on Empire Windrush (known as the Windrush Generation), and their descendants, for the enormous contributions they made to Britain during its recovery from the Second World War and have continued to make ever since.
The Great Get Together
20-22 June 2025
The Great Get Together is the UK’s annual celebration of everything that unites our communities, inspired by Jo Cox’s belief that we have more in common than that which divides us.
We’ve put together some top tips on how to stay connected with others. That could be as easy as saying hello to someone else – John Bishop shows us how it’s done at an event!
10 ways to keep connected with others Say hello with John Bishop
Small Charity Week
23 – 27 June 2025
Small Charity Week celebrates and raises awareness of the essential work of the UK’s small charity sector.
The work that small charities do to support important causes is incredible, and often under-appreciated. Why not consider fundraising for a small charity local to you or close to your heart with an event during the Month of Community?
Care Home Open Week
16-22 June 2025
Care Home Open Week is all about connecting communities and showing what care homes have to offer. It aims to showcase the job opportunities in the care sector and encourage greater community engagement.
Pride
June is also known as Pride month, and we have written a blog with our top advice to help you be an ally to any group that has faced marginalisation.
Being an ally is about much more than believing in equality and being anti-discriminatory. It’s actively supporting LGBTQ+ people through every day actions as a straight/heterosexual person. You can also be an ally to people of colour as a white person, or a disability ally even though you might not be disabled yourself.
Month of Community
Come together to celebrate what makes our communities great
Reduce loneliness and isolation
Anyone at any age can be lonely. We can all take small…
Bringing people together (Volunteering)
Everyone is part of a community, and we believe those communities are…
The Big Lunch
Join millions to share friendship, food and fun with a Big Lunch!