Community Day - a new Bank Holiday?

Just had a look at the website for Community Day which is backed by voluntary organisations such as NCVO, NACVA and CSV as well as the TUC. It calls for a new UK bank holiday that they would like to see introduced to the UK's calendar.

They suggest it could fall during the Autumn half term break in October, breaking the long run of 16 weeks without a holiday between August and Christmas.

The website says it would be a bank holiday with a difference. It would be one day in the year with a special focus on celebrating and promoting voluntary community activity.

Whether or not they are successful, the idea of celebrating community activity in a special way on a certain day can only assist in building public trust and helping make democracy work.