Submitted by Scott Green on Monday 5th May 2025
Published on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 2nd June 2026
Current Signatures: 37
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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August ~ autumn ~ bank holiday ~ Banks ~ Bonfire ~ Bonfire Night ~ christmas ~ christmas day ~ Create ~ date ~ DEC ~ England ~ Fawkes ~ Guy Fawkes ~ Holidays ~ mentalhealth ~ night ~ Parliament ~ Wales
Create an Autumn Bank Holiday in England & Wales
We ask the Government to decide on an Autumn Bank Holiday date and implement it for England & Wales.
With 121 days between the August Bank Holiday and Christmas Day (25th Dec), this is the longest stretch in the calendar year without a Bank Holiday break in England & Wales. Giving everyone an Autumn Bank Holiday would even the spread of holidays in the year. The Government could allow the public or Parliament to decide what the Bank Holiday could be for, whether for Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night, for mental health or something else.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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