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Calendar 2021 Employee Diversity and Inclusion Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Calendar 2021 Employee Diversity and Inclusion Here at the IET, we are dedicated to demonstrating our Our first multi-year Equality, Diversity and Inclusion commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), Strategy launched in October 2019. The strategy and advocating inclusivity in engineering is a crucial validates our efforts to embed EDI throughout the element to addressing the skills shortage that currently institution and shows that our efforts are joined up threatens UK engineering industry and enables us to and are fundamental to us achieving wider change. represent the global membership base in which we serve. This approach supports equal and professional Adopting methods that enable us to recruit from all opportunity for all. We recognise the importance of sections of society allows us to widen the talent pool, promoting equal opportunities for all and ensuring that inspire a broader range of individuals and show that all processes across the organisation are inclusive. engineering is for everybody. As one of the largest PEIs in the world; we have This calendar for 2021 highlights major key dates and a duty to promote engineering to everybody and religious holidays that we as an institution celebrate. encourage organisations to do more around promoting The calendar also outlines our many events that happen the importance of embracing equality, diversity and throughout the year that we hope to welcome many of inclusion. It is important that we demonstrate that we you to. are a welcoming and inclusive engineering institution where everybody has an equal opportunity to succeed. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion January This month can also be referred to as Dry January. This is an annual movement through which millions of people give up alcohol for the month. Run by the charity, Alcohol Change UK, a drier January can give you more energy, a healthier body and allow you to sleep better, plus loads more benefits! Technology is changing our world and on 6 January, it’s National Technology Day! On this day, we recognise and celebrate achievements in the field of technology and look to the future. 11 January is International Thank You Day, so we want to thank you for taking the time to look at our calendar and we hope you find it useful. Dry January January Special days 1 New years Day, Solemnity 17 World Religion Day, of Mary Mother of God Timkat (Ethiopian Orthodox (Catholic Christian), Christian) Feast Day of St Basil 18 Week of Prayer for (Orthodox Christian), Christian Unity (Christian) World Day of Peace (18-25), Martin Luther 4 World Braille Day King Day, Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (18-24) S M T W T F S 5 Twelfth night (Christian) 20 Guru Gobind Singh birthday 6 Epiphany/Theophany/ (Sikh) Three Kings Day (Christian), National Technology 25 Conversion of St. Paul 1 2 Day (UK) (Christian), Burns Night (Scottish), Saint Dwynwen’s 8 Feast of the Nativity Day (Welsh) (Christian) 26 Republic Day (India) 10 Baptism of the Lord Jesus 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (Christian) 27 Holocaust Memorial Day 11 International Thank You Day 28 Tu B ‘Shevat (Jewish)/ Thaipusam (Tamil Hindu) 12 Vivekananda Jayanti (Hindu) 31 Racial Justice Day 13 Lohri (Hindu/Sikh) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 Makar Sankranti/ Uttarayan/Maghi/ Sankranti/Kite Festival (Hindu/Sikh), 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Pongal (Hindu) (14-17) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion February 11 February is National Inventors’ Day! Thanks to inventors and their creative minds, we can safely ride in an elevator, have a well-lit room at the flip of a switch and speak to someone on the other side of the world in a split second. Many inventors go their whole life without recognition for their innovations, so we want to recognise and shine a spotlight on those who have added to our lives. February also includes National Random Acts of Kindness Day which we encourage across the organisation. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop. National Heart Month Special days February 1 World Hijab Day, Race 14 St. Valentine’s Day Equality week (1-7), (Christian), Transfiguration Imbolc - Northern Sunday (Christian) hemisphere (Wiccan/Pagan), 15 Nirvana Day/Parinirvana Lughnasadh - Southern Day (Buddhist /Jain), hemisphere (Wiccan/Pagan) International Childhood (1-2) Cancer Day 2 Candlemas - Presentation S M T W T F S 16 Vasant Panchami/Sarasvati of Christ in the Temple Puja (Hindu), Shrove (Christian), Setsubun Tuesday (Christian), (Shinto), St. Blaise’s Day Basant Panchami (Hindu) (Christian) 17 Ash Wednesday - Lent 3 Four Chaplains Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6 begins (Christian), Random (Interfaith) A c t s o f K i n d n e s s D a y , 4 World Cancer Day, World Human Spirit Day Time to Talk Day 20 World Day of Social Justice 8 International Epilepsy Day 21 Triodion Begins 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 9 Safer Internet Day (Orthodox Christian), International Mother 11 International Day of Language Day, Engineers Women and girls in Week (21-27) Science, World Day of the sick, National 22 World Thinking Day, 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Inventors’ Day Fairtrade Fortnight (22 February - 7 March) 12 Tét - Vietnamese New Year, Red Hand Day 25 Purim (Jewish) (25-26) for Child Soldiers, 26 Magha Puja Day (Buddhist) Chinese New Year/Spring Festival/Lunar New Year 28 Rare Disease Day, 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 (Asian) Nineteen Day Fast (Baha’i) (28 February - 19 March) 13 World Radio Day 28 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion March 8 March is International Women’s Day! We celebrate this special day each year by recognising the achievements of women throughout the world. An equal world is an enabled world and we can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions and improve situations. Collectively, every single one of us can help to create a gender equal world. The beginning of March is British Science Week; a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics! The end of March also marks National Equal Pay Day! Taking place in March, this month symbolises how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. On 23 March, the anniversary of the first lockdown for the UK, there will be a National Day of Reflection. Spearheaded by end of life charity Marie Curie, this day is an opportunity to reflect on our collective loss, support those who have been bereaved, and hope for a bright future. Red Cross Month, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month March Special days 1 St David’s Day (Welsh/ 20 International Day of Christian), Self Injury Happiness, World Oral Awareness Day - SIAD, Health Day, Spring equinox/ Zero Discrimination Day, Ostara - Northern hemisphere International Wheelchair Day (Wiccan/Pagan), 3 World Wildlife Day, Autumn equinox/Mabon World Hearing Day - Southern hemisphere (Wiccan/Pagan) 4 IET Young Woman Engineer of S M T W T F S 21 World Poetry Day, the Year Awards - YWE International Day of Nowruz, 5 British Science Week (5-14) International Day for 7 Meatfare Sunday (Orthodox the Elimination of Racial Christian) Discrimination, World Down 8 International Women’s Day Syndrome Day, Feast of 1 2 3 4 5 6 Orthodoxy (Orthodox Christian) 10 No smoking Day UK 22 World Water Day 11 Maha Shivaratri (Hindu), Lailat al Miraj (Islamic), 23 World Meteorological Day, World Kidney Day National Day of Reflection 14 Shrove Sunday (Christian), 24 World TB Day, National Equal 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Mother’s Day UK Pay Day (UK) 15 Clean Monday - Great Lent 25 Annunciation of the Blessed begins (Orthodox Christian), Virgin Mary (Christian) Neurodiversity Celebration 26 Khordad Sal/Birth of Prophet Week (15-21) Zarathustra (Zoroastrian) 16 Young Carers Action Day 27 Pesach/Passover (Jewish) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 17 St Patrick’s Day (27 March - 4 April), Lord’s (Irish/Christian) Evening Meal (Jehovah’s Witness Christian) 18 Global Recycling Day 28 Palm Sunday (Christian), 19 World Sleep Day, St. Lailat al Bara’ah (Islamic) Joseph’s Day (Christian), (28-29), Holika Dahan (Indian) Naw-Rúz / Baha’i New Year 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 (Baha’i) (19-20) 29 Holi (Hindu), World Autism Awareness Week (29 March - 4 April) 30 World Bipolar Day 28 29 30 31 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion April The beginning of April is World Autism Awareness Day; an internationally recognised day encouraging everyone to raise awareness about people with Autism around the world. 22 April marks International Mother Earth Day all about supporting environmental protection. Every year around the world, Earth Day organisers promote green campaigns to save the Earth. Caesarean Awareness Month IBS Awareness Month Sarcoidosis Awareness Month April Special days 1 April Fools’ Day, Maundy 15 International Thursday (Christian) Microvolunteering Day 2 Good Friday (Christian), 19 Ridvan (Baha’i) World Autism Awareness (19 April - 1 May) Day 21 Rama Navami (Hindu) 3 Holy Saturday (Christian) S M T W T F S 22 Stephen Lawrence Day, 4 Easter Sunday (Christian), International Mother Qingming Festival/Tomb Earth Day Sweeping Day (Chinese) 23 St. George’s Day (Christian), 7 World Health Day, Shakespeare Day 1 2 3 Holocaust Remembrance 24 Lazarus Saturday Day/Yom HaShoah (Orthodox Christian) (Jewish) (7-8) 25 Palm Sunday 8 International Romani Day (Orthodox Christian), 11 World Parkinson’s Day World Malaria Day, 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mahavir Jayanti (Jain), 12 Ramadan (Islamic) Pesach Sheni (Jewish) (25-26) (12 April - 12 May) 27 Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu) 13 Gudi Padwa/Marathi New Year (Marathi/Konkani 28 World Day for Health & 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Hindus) Safety at Work 14 Baisakhi/Vaisakhi (Sikh), 29 International Dance Day, Mesha Sankranti/Mesha On your Feet Britain, Lag Sankramana/Hindu Solar B’Omer (Jewish) (29-30) New Year (Hindu), 30 Holy Friday (Orthodox Puthandu/Puthuvarudam/ Christian), International Tamil New Year (Hindu), 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Jazz Day Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Jewish) (14-15) 25 26 27 28 29 30 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion May The annual Green Ribbon Campaign takes place every May during Mental Health Awareness Week and aims to get people talking openly about common mental health problems.
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