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Stress Awareness Month 2025
Every year in April is Stress Awareness Month – a month where you can check in on your own feelings to see how you are faring, and help and reach out to others who may be experiencing stress or who are going through a tough time in their lives. Stress awareness month...
Cyber Essentials
Beacon Education is happy to announce that we are now a Cyber Essentials certified organisation
Safety guidelines
In the rare event of a fire arms or weapons attack, please see steps to safety below...
CitizenAid
Sadly, we live in complex and disturbing times with a 'highly likely' risk of terrorism as we have seen in Manchester, and again on Saturday night in London. The first few minutes after an incident are the most important when attempting to save lives. Four experienced...
Time to Talk Day 2025
Every year we celebrate Time to Talk Day in February, and this year it falls on February 6th . It’s one of the nation’s biggest days to talk about mental health, where we hope that everyone will come together to speak, listen and change the lives of those with mental...
National Cholesterol Month
October is National Cholesterol Month – which is a campaign to try and raise awareness of cholesterol and the importance of maintaining healthy levels of cholesterol in your body. But, what is cholesterol? Cholesterol is a type of blood fat which is made in the liver....
World Cancer Day 2024
The first topic of the month for this year is a big one – World Cancer Day, which is held every 4th of February, led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Every few years there is a new theme – this is the third year of the ‘close...
World Diabetes Day 2023
World Diabetes Day is celebrated every year on the 14th November, with a theme that runs over multiple years – from 2021-2023 the theme is ‘Access to Diabetes Care’. Diabetes education is lacking, with millions of people around the world unable to access care or...
World Alzheimer’s Month 2023
Did you know…..? There are 55 million people living with dementia around the globe. It is estimated that this number will rise to 139 million by 2050. Out of this number, in the UK there are currently around 900,000 people with dementia. This month is World...
Alcohol Awareness Week 2023
This year alcohol awareness week falls on the 3-9th July, with a theme of ‘the true cost of alcohol’. Did you know…. ? The total social cost of alcohol to society is estimated to be at least £21 billion each year. Alcohol awareness week is an important event which...
Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Mental health awareness week runs from 15-21 May this year, with a main focus on Anxiety. Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems that everyone can face – from small amounts to large amounts, everyone will deal with Anxiety one way or another in their...
Stress Awareness Month 2023
This month is stress awareness month, which has been held in April since 1992, to help raise awareness and openconversation of how much stress can impact us in everyday life. Stress can be defined as a state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation....
Topic of the month – Time to Talk Day 2023
Every year we celebrate Time to Talk Day in February, and this year it falls on February 2nd. It’s one of the nation’s biggest days to talk about mental health, where we hope that everyone will come together to speak, listen and change the lives of those with mental...
Topic of the month: World Diabetes Day 2022
This month we are going to talk about World Diabetes Day – which falls on 14th November each year. World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes as more people around the world were...
Samaritans – The Big Listen
This month is Samaritans awareness month! Every year in July Samaritans branches around the UK are holding various events to help raise awareness of the Samaritans and everything they do – with Samaritans Awareness Day falling on 24th July – helping to showcase that...
Carers Week 2022
Carers Week this year runs from the 6th-12th June, with a theme of "Make caring visible, valued and supported". But what exactly is carers week? Carers week is an annual campaign that raises awareness of carers and the challenges that they face, as well as recognising...
Topic of the Month: Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week Did you know….? One in four adults feel lonely some or all of the time. Mental Health Awareness week has come around again this week, from May 9th to May 15th – this time with the theme being...
Topic of the Month: National Walking Month – May 2022
#Try20 #WalkThisMay This May is ‘National Walking Month’. After a few years of lockdowns and not getting out much, it is more important than ever to get out and enjoy the nice weather that has been gracing us recently in the UK, and what a better way than joining...
Prostate Cancer & Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
We’ve seen quite a few different topic of the months lately to do with cancer, like World Cancer Day and Breast Cancer Awareness, but this month there are to different types of cancer being highlighted – prostate cancer and ovarian cancer. Prostate cancer affects many...
Topic of the Month: World Cancer Day 2022
So, the time for cancer awareness has rolled around again, but this time with a different theme that can really link in with your course with us – ‘Close the Care Gap‘. Many of you completing the course will already be working in the sector, or looking to get into the...
Topic of the Month: Breast Cancer Awareness
This month we are going to look at breast cancer awareness. On the 22nd of October this year ‘Wear it Pink’ day comes back around, and so we thought it would be a good idea to take a deeper look into breast cancer and awareness around it. This year will be the 20th...
Vascular Dementia Awareness
The topic we are going to talk about this time is Dementia Awareness – specifically Vascular Dementia awareness. Dementia is a topic that you will see pop up in your studies with us, and there’s even a whole unit that covers Dementia so some of this information may be...
Topic of the month: Sexual Abuse
Quite a wide topic for this month’s topic of the month: Sexual Abuse. Ofsted has recently produced a review on sexual abuse in schools and colleges, and although most in further education are adults sexual abuse may still affect you, whether it is whilst you are...