Special Days

The Edinburgh Interfaith Association is the lead organiser for this year’s joint Scottish National and City…
Historic Scotland is offering free entrance to many of its sites in the run up to St Andrew's Day. For the…
In the run-up to Scotland's national day St Andrew's Day, Edinburgh sees four-days of family events centred…
The 10:10 campaign is a global, grassroots campaign, launched last year, with the aim of raising awareness…
That slight underplaying of ritual and pomposity is what Scotland does so well, and nowhere better than in…
Since 2006, the public have been invited to explore the enclosed world of Midmar allotments on just one day…
One of Edinburgh’s most beautiful hidden treasures throws open its gates to the public on Sunday 25…
This year's theme "Biodiversity and Development" is a thorny one considering that the biggest…
This March, a programme of events in Scotland, surrounding St. Patrick's Day, illustrate how these two great…
The first hours of 2010 look likely to be chilly ones with temperatures in Edinburgh dropping several degrees…
This year's St. Andrew's Day festivities, aka the St. Andrew's "Do", will be the biggest ever it was…
Lennoxlove House in East Lothian is the venue for this inaugural Winter weekend book festival.
The BBC's campaign to encourage the nation to smile its way to better mental wellbeing is beaming into…
Edinburgh City Council has reported thousands of visitors on Doors Open Day 2009, held the past Saturday and…
As of 2009, the U.N. has declared 8 June as officially World Oceans Day across the globe each year. This year…
Mothering Sunday is marked across the U.K. each year on the fourth Sunday in the month of Lent (the 40 days…
Earth Day, celebrated around the world on 22nd April each year, originated in the United States as a teach-in…
On Wednesday 11 March, No Smoking Day organisers are keen to remind the UK's 9.4 million smokers that…
For more than a decade now millions of readers, from around the globe have joined in World Book Day.  The…
Poets Tessa Ransford, Morelle Smith and Anne Clarke, along with Nancy Nicholson one of Scotland's finest…