SAW events 2025

Sat 28th June - Sun 6th July 2025

Click here for a list of events

Swift Awareness Week was first held in 2018 with groups around the country holding over 90 events in 2020: celebrating this wonderful bird, bringing attention to its decline and encouraging people to do something about it. 

SAW2025 is not just about ‘events’ – walks, talks, displays etc but also provides the perfect platform for organising other ‘actions’ such as:

1. Getting articles about swifts and their plight into your local (or national) newspaper, community or parish magazine.

2. Putting leaflets/posters on your windows, in libraries, community centres etc. (and even having a display of nest boxes etc).

3. Making a Banksy type mural on a blank wall somewhere….or making swift flags to put up along a street (see attached).

4. Getting local youth groups/WI’s to do a project on swifts/make nest boxes/paint them in the colours of the flags of the countries they migrate over.

5. Asking you county wildlife trust/local RSPB or birder group what they do to help swifts and whether they will put something on their websites, in their newsletters etc.

6. Giving a nest box or two to a local school/church/community centre as a way of involving them.
7. Asking wildlife writers/columnists to write about swifts during the week.