3rd weekend in August: World Peace and Service Day (holiday) off for work for all business and service organisations across the globe and service activities like feeding cows milk to new born children in hospitals if mothers are incapable of feeding, new clothes, food offering to blind, deaf,spastic, mentally handicapped, physically handicapped, polio attacked patients, aids, cancer patients and dental, ortho, gynaec, opthamology patients, neuro, for all patients in hospital and other centres, food and clothing to be provided.
Between 9 and 23 August 2008 near Sinop, Turkey - a proposed site for a nuclear power plant - the international activist gathering Ecotopia will be held [8].
Late August: Mathew Street Festival, [12] in Liverpool
MAS Carnival, Swansea - the city's ethnic diversity is celebrated by a colorful parade that passes through the city center.
Third weekend in August: Race The Train[13] in Tywyn. Runners attempt to cover a 14 mile route through a beautiful Welsh Valley faster than a historic steam train. 2008 is the 25th running of the event.
Last weekend in August (August Bank Holiday weekend): Notting Hill Carnival[14] - Notting Hill, London
Last weekend in August (August Bank Holiday weekend): Leeds and Reading Festivals - weekend of rock music
