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Planning calendar

The NHVic Planning Calendar is designed to help neighbourhood houses map out their year of events and programming. It can also be used to plan your social media schedule.

Please note: Many dates for 2024 are still being finalised by the relevant bodies. We know many Houses are planning for term 1 already, so we have released the first page of the calendar while we finish the rest of the year. 


Terms

2023:

Term 1: 27/30 January – 6 April
Term 2: 24 April – 23 June
Term 3: 10 July – 15 September
Term 4: 2 October – 20 December

 

Public holidays


2023:
1 January New Year's Day
2 January
New Years Day (observed)
26 January Australia Day
13 March Labour Day
7 April Good Friday
8 April Easter Saturday
9 April Easter Sunday
10 April Easter Monday
25 April ANZAC Day
12 June King’s Birthday
TBA Friday before AFL Grand Final
7 November Melbourne Cup
25 December Christmas Day
26 December Boxing Day


Dates of recognition or celebration

2023:

22 January

Chinese New Year

20 February

World Day of Social Justice

5 March

Clean Up Australia Day

8 March

International Women’s Day

21 March

World Social Work Day

21 March

Harmony Day

19 March

Cultural Diversity Week begins (until 27 March)

22 March

Ramadan commences (until 20 April)

25 March

Earth Hour (8.30pm-9.30pm)

26 March

Neighbour Day

31 March

International Transgender Day of Visibility

2 April

World Autism Awareness Day

5 April

Passover begins (until 13 April)

7 April

World Health Day

16 April

Orthodox Easter

21 April

Eid-al-Fitr (until 22 April)

22 April 

Earth Day

8 May

Neighbourhood House Week (until 14 May)

15 May

National Volunteer Week (until 21 May)

17 May

IDAHOBIT - International Day Against Homophobia,
Biphobia, Intersexism & Transphobia

24 May

World Schizophrenia Awareness Day

25 May

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

26 May

National Sorry Day

27 May

Reconciliation Week (until 3 June)

5 June

World Environment Day

15 June

Elder Abuse Awareness Day

12 June

Men’s Health Week (until 18 June)

18 June

Refugee Week (until 24 June)

20 June

World Refugee Day

2 July

NAIDOC Week (until 9 July)

30 July

International Day of Friendship

30 July 

National Tree Day

7 August

Loneliness Awareness Week (until 13 August)

12 August

International Youth Day

12 August

National Science Week (until 20 August)

19 August

World Humanitarian Day

21 August

National Skills Week (until 27 August)

25 August

Wear it Purple Day

1 September

Adult Learner’s Week (until 8 September)

14 September

R U OK? Day

15 September

Rosh Hashanah beings (until 17 September) 

24 September

Yom Kippur begins (until 25 September)

1 October

International Day of Older Persons

9 October

This Girl Can Week (until 15 October)

10 October

World Mental Health Day

TBC

National Carers Week

12 November

Diwali

27 October

National Teacher's Day 

31 October

Halloween

5 November

International Volunteer Managers Day

6 November

National Recycling Week (until 12 November)

11 November

Remembrance Day

18 November

Social Inclusion Week (until 26 November)

25 November

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Commencement of 16 Days of Activism)

26 November

Social Inclusion Week (until 4 December)

3 December

International Day of People with Disability

5 December

International Volunteer Day

10 December

Human Rights Day

7 December

Hanukkah begins (ends 15 December)