02 Jan |
Onwards into 2025 |
Each year, AC Services starts its regular monthly blog with a calendar for the year ahead. For the last few years they make for pretty grim reading with their mix of broken dreams and additional challenges for catering business. Will 2025 be any different?
Or are our January blogs actually like most new year’s resolutions? Helpful to start the year positively? The old business adage is those you fail to plan; plan to fail. With another tough year seemingly ahead staying positive and taking some time, now, to plan will reap its rewards.
Time to Plan
We make no apology that our calendar is a complete mix. This reflects all the different types of Rational users AC Services Southern supports from local pubs, takeaways and farm shops through schools, hospitals to restaurants, hotels and fine dining. All provide catering and all know their potential clients, both locally and nationally. It also means that you can try something different to attract new consumers, who might then become regulars.
And 2025 is an interesting year date-wise. The Easters of the Western and Eastern Christian church fall on the same Sunday. This isn’t normally the case. The summer solstice is handily on a Saturday for those minded to celebrate.
2024 Events Calendar
January- Dry January or Veganuary:
- 12-26 Tennis Australian Open Melbourne.
- 25 Burns Night.
- 29 Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake.
- 31- 15 March Rugby Union 6 Nations.
February- Apprentices’ Month:
- 2 Yorkshire Pudding Day.
- 3-7 National Apprenticeship Week.
- 14 Valentine’s Day.
- 28/1-30 March Ramadan.
March- Women’s History Month:
- 3-7 School Breakfast Week.
- 7 Employee Appreciation Day.
- 11-14 Horse Racing Cheltenham Festival.
- 21 Red Nose Day Comic Relief.
- 30 Mother’s Day.
April- Stress Awareness Month:
- 7-9 Farm Shop and Deli Show Birmingham.
- 10-13 Golf Masters Augusta.
- 13-20 Jewish Passover.
- 18 Good Friday.
- 20 Orthodox and Western Easter Sunday.
- 21 National Tea Day.
- 23 Great British Beef Week.
May- Spring Rituals Month:
- 1-8 Time for a Cuppa Week (dementia awareness).
- 5 Early May Bank Holiday.
- 18-24 British Sandwich Week.
- 19-25 Vegetarian Week.
- 26 Spring Bank Holiday.
June- LGBT Pride Month:
- 7 World Food Safety Day.
- 13-16 Golf US Open Pinehurst.
- 15 Father’s Day.
- 16-22 Diabetes Prevention Week.
- 20-August 2 Rugby Lions Tour of Australia.
- 21 Summer Solstice.
- 21-29 English Wine Week.
July- Month of Revolutions:
- 30 June-13 July Tennis Wimbledon.
- 2-27 Football Women’s Euros Switzerland.
- 7-13 Great British Pea Week.
- 17-20 Golf, The Open Royal Portrush.
- 21 National Ice Cream Day.
August- National Dog Month:
- 13 National Prosecco Day.
- 22 World Plant Milk Day.
- 22-27 September Rugby Women’s World Cup UK.
- 25 August Bank Holiday30 International Bacon Day.
September- Organic Month:
- 1-5 Zero Waste Week.
- 13- 21 September World Athletics Championships Tokyo.
- 27 World’s Biggest Coffee Morning (MacMillan).
October- American Pizza Month:
- 1 World Vegetarian Day.
- 11 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day.
- 20 International Chefs Day.
- 21 Diwali Festival of Lights.
- 26 Daylight Saving Time ends.
- 31 Halloween.
November- Vegan Month:
- 1 World Vegan Day.
- 5 Bonfire Night.
- 9 British Pudding Day.
- 28 Black Friday.
December- Seasonal Affective Disorder Awareness Month:
- 1 Advent begins!
- 2 English Breakfast Day.
- 6 Small Business Saturday.
Christmas again and looking ahead to 2026!
At AC Services, we wish you a prosperous and enjoyable 2025.
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