Solidarity & Awareness Weeks

Dates for your Diary - key celebration weeks 🎉🎉🎉

Every year there are five key dates for your diary to keep an eye out for.

In addition to these weeks, there is also Care Day. The third Friday of February is Care Day – the world’s biggest celebration of children and adults with care experience!  

Estranged Student Solidarity Week (#ESSW)

The #ESSW theme for 2024 is 'Invisible No More' (25th Nov -1st Dec 24)

Estranged Students Solidarity Week is a national campaign for universities, colleges, student unions/associations and further & higher education sector organisations.  Established by Stand Alone in 2017, the aim of the week is to raise awareness of the struggles which estranged students—i.e. students studying without parental support—face, as well as the support available. 

This year’s campaign, Invisible No More, uses bright and punchy graphics to contrast the often invisible struggles which estranged students face.

As part of this year’s campaign, we have created templates for you to use on your social media. Please find the Media Guidance Document here, as well as links to the templates on Canva. We ask you to please share these with your social media team to post during Estranged Students Solidarity Week.

What can you do

Past #ESSW campaigns, blogs and thoughts

Here are some previous year's blogs and campaigns for #ESSW.