June Awareness Days: Content Inspiration For Your Photography Blog And Social Media
If you find yourself struggling for content ideas for your photography blog or social media posts, have you ever thought about using national awareness days as content prompts? If not, I strongly suggest giving it a try!
Few things are more frustrating than staring at an empty screen knowing that you need to create content to promote your photography, yet being utterly clueless about what to write.
This is precisely where awareness days can come to the rescue. Every year, there are hundreds of awareness days in each calendar month and this means that there’s a wealth of potential topics you can use to inspire captivating content ideas!
Related: A step-by-step guide to using awareness days in your photo marketing content
Awareness days are invaluable as content prompts
Consider this: an awareness day centred around a specific theme or topic has the potential to unlock a multitude of photography marketing content ideas throughout the year.
“How?”, you might ask. Well, when used as prompts, you may discover that the chosen theme of an awareness day, awareness week, or monthly campaign sparks inspiration and sets your brain into motion. It could trigger the recollection of a compelling story to share with your audience or unearth a memorable experience that might catch their interest, for example.
Given the wide range of topics that awareness days are linked to each and every month, I believe that it’s entirely possible for you to leverage awareness days in your content. By doing so, you can potentially come up with endless content ideas for your photography business!
Related: How to use awareness days to inspire photography content ideas
Free calendar and June awareness days 2024
If you’re reading this around the time this article was originally published, now’s the time to start creating content for your photography marketing channels for June! (I know, I know! How are we nearly at the mid-point of the year already?!)
In June, there are many awareness days and campaigns, so I’m confident that you should be able to find some that are relevant and that could inspire content ideas you’ve not thought of yet.
Here’s a list of June awareness days that you might want to look out for in 2024:
June Awareness Days
Month-long awareness campaigns in June
There are month-long campaigns during June including:
- Pride Month
- Care for your Grandparents Month
- National Great Outdoors Month
- Age without Apology Month
- National Candy Month
- Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity Awareness Month (SANDS)
Awareness days and week-long campaigns in June
Now, let’s focus on June awareness days and week-long campaigns. There are around a hundred key dates in June including the following:
*Please note that the dates below apply predominantly to the U.K. in the year 2024, and are subject to change year on year. Although they are correct to the best of my knowledge at the time of publication, please check the dates of any awareness campaigns you plan to use. Where I have found links to more information, I have included these below.
Week-long campaigns in June include:
- Volunteers Week (from the 3rd)
- Garden Wildlife Week (from the 3rd)
- Child Safety Week (from the 3rd)
- World Heart Rhythm Week (from the 3rd)
- National Growing for Wellbeing Week (from the 3rd)
- BNF Healthy Eating Week (from the 10th)
- Carers Week (from the 10th)
- Aromatherapy Awareness Week (from the 10th)
- Loneliness Awareness Week (from the 10th)
- Diabetes Awareness Week (from the 10th)
- Men’s Health Week (from the 10th)
- Bike Week (from the 10th)
- Drowning Prevention Week (from the 15th)
- English Wine Week (from the 15th)
- Learning Disability Week (from the 17th)
- Cervical Screening Awareness Week (from the 17th)
- Children’s Art Week (from the 29th)
Awareness days in June 2024: A (non-exhaustive) list of key dates
01 National Say Something Nice Day
01 International Children’s Day
04 Hug Your Cat Day
04 National Cheese Day
05 Bike Week
08 National Best Friends Day
13 National Sewing Machine Day
15 National Flag Day
15 National Smile Power Day
15 National Lobster Day
15 Nature Photography Day
16 Father’s Day (UK)
18 International Picnic Day
20 World Productivity Day
20 National Vanilla Milkshake Day
20 Summer Solstice
21 World Music Day
21 World Motorcycle Day
21 National Selfie Day
21 National Take Your Dog to Work Day
23 National Let It Go Day
24 International Fairy Day
27 International Sunglasses Day
27 International Pineapple Day
28 International Body Piercing Day
28 National Insurance Awareness Day
29 National Camera Day
30 National Social Media Day
How you could use these Awareness days in June
1st June
National Say Something Nice Day
Any photographer could use this as a prompt to share a compliment or positive review online – perhaps about a supplier or client? It’s always nice to be on the receiving end of a compliment, so why not give more? Perhaps others will say something nice about you too!
It could also be ideal for portrait photographers who specialise in empowering photography. If you’re a beauty or boudoir photographer, for example, you could use this awareness day to reinforce the message about being kind to yourself and focusing on self-love. Or, make it more about you…talk about how you stay positive as a business owner and some of your favourite ways of boosting your self-esteem when you face tough challenges?
15th June
Nature Photography Day
This is a great one for any photographers who capture locations, wildlife and flora and fauna, as well as family photographers who shoot outdoors. It ties in nicely with the National Great Outdoors Month theme too.
You could share inspirational content including examples of your favourite images, talk about interesting commissions you’ve had or where your photography has been used or featured. You could also create videos or Instagram Reels with a few quick-fire photography tips that your audience could use themselves when taking photographs in nature.
16th June
Father’s Day (U.K.)
Family portrait photographers, naturally, you’ll want to be promoting your family portrait sessions in the lead-up to Father’s Day as photos are the perfect gift for dads and grandparents.
On the day itself, you could share examples of your portraits of children with their Dad and/or Grandfather to show examples of your best work, along with a tribute to fathers in the form of a poem or meme. Behind-the-scenes funnies are always entertaining too – kids pulling their Dad’s nose or ears, that sort of thing!
17th June
Plastic-free Beauty Day
Beauty photographers, this day is an opportunity to promote the makeup brands you work with who have eco-credentials and to highlight some of the looks you’ve captured on recent projects.
21st June
National Selfie Day
You may not take many selfies of yourself but on this awareness day, why not break that habit? Take a selfie on your phone and share it with your online audience so that they see your face or, even better, talk to the camera and share something about yourself or what you’re up to on Selfie Day. Showing your face is a great way to build a connection and a chance to reveal a bit more about you to your followers.
Alternatively, get some engagement going on social media by asking your followers how many selfies of themselves they have on their camera roll, or share some selfie photography tips or phone photo editing hacks as a quick value post, and ask them to comment with their own tips as well.
29th June
National Camera Day
What was your first camera? Which camera do you use now and why? How many cameras do you have? These are all questions you could answer in your content on national camera day.
You could also show off your kit or create a behind-the-scenes timelapse video showing you packing your camera kit for a job or commission, or setting up your photography studio.
Or, you could create a variety of content around why you became a photographer, who inspired you to pick up a camera in the first place, or around your early memories of starting out in your photography career. Talk about why you love photography, how it has enhanced your life and who or what you love to photograph.
June awareness days can inspire tons of content
I hope that this may have helped to show you how you can use some of the June awareness days in your marketing content this year.
Of course, these are just some ideas I’ve put together and are shared just to give you some quick-fire inspiration on how to apply them to your content. Don’t overthink this!
Remember, there are many more awareness days in June than those listed above. Cherry-pick a few of the June awareness days that speak to you and then interpret them however you wish.
P.S. Keep checking back to this blog for more similar articles. This is the sixth instalment of a monthly blog series that’s focused on awareness days and how to interpret them to create content ideas.
Related:
May Awareness Days
April Awareness Days
March Awareness Days
Good luck with your June content planning!
