It’s Christmas time. The end of the year (what a long year too, three different Prime Ministers and no General Election). December is more than just Christmas though it may feel like everything is Christmas themed – is your advent calendar at the ready?
Get your content organised and make sure you take a well earned break in over the festive period. If you’d like a helping hand remember my 15 minute spotlight calls are free. December and New Year may or may not be busy for your businesses, but it is important to keep posting consistent content. Make sure you post once every 72 hours.
December will be a busy month for many businesses. Retailers, caterers, hospitality, personal care, will have the lion’s share of the work, though there will be opportunities for everyone. There will always be opportunities to help other businesses. You don’t need to spend money with a small business to support them, you can:
- Like, share, comment on their social media
- Tell your friends about SMEs
- Give them moral support
- Leave a review, like someone else’s review
- Don’t ask for ‘mate’s rates’ or free stuff.
03/12/2022 will be the UN International Day of Person with Disabilities.
Save The Children’s Christmas Jumper Day 2022 returns on 08/12/2022. It is an excellent opportunity to share content and raise awareness. Bowel Cancer UK’s Decembeard also returns, if you’ve done well during Movember then maybe time to go the full hog?
The first weekend of December will be Tree Dressing Day (though you might have had it up since Bonfire Night, heathens). As always, Christmas displays are evergreen content, and there are so many variations of the theme. Christmas traditions may be very relatable to your business. Elf on a shelf, anyone? My elf aka Elphina may be getting drowned by the 10th of December.
Let’s all sit down for International Tea Day on 15/12/2022. Mine is Yorkshire Tea (obvs) with a good glug of milk, how do you take yours?
Winter Solstice will be 21/12/2022, the first day of Winter. It feels like it’s already here and most definitely time to get my big coat out, I may even wear it indoors this year to save on energy.
Other awareness days
- World AIDS Day is held on 01/12/2022
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery will be 02/12/2022
- National Grief Awareness Week begins 02/12/2022
- International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development returns 05/12/2022
- Illumination Street Week starts 06/12/2022
- International Civil Aviation Day is held on 07/12/2022
- International Anti-Corruption Day will be 09/12/2022
- World Human Rights Day returns 10/12/2022
- Alfred Nobel Day (Sweden) is celebrated on 10/12/2022
- Day of Reconciliation (South Africa) will be 16/12/2022
- International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers on 17/12/2022
- International Migrants is 18/12/2022
- Hanukkah (first day, Jewish) will be 19/12/2022
- International Human Solidarity Day is held on 20/12/2022
- Christmas Day will be 25/12/2022 (Christian)
- Kwanzaa (African-American) begins 26/12/2022