Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.
Jubilee Bank holiday must be guaranteed for all workers
Open from Friday 16th December 2011 to Saturday 16th June 2012
20 signatures
Epiphany Bank Holiday
Open from Friday 2nd January 2015 to Monday 30th March 2015
19 signatures
Bank holidays
Open from Monday 3rd November 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
19 signatures
Bank Holiday to recognise unity during Covid Pandemic
Open from Friday 27th November 2020 to Thursday 27th May 2021
18 signatures
Bank Holiday in October
Open from Tuesday 29th October 2013 to Wednesday 29th October 2014
18 signatures
Make Christmas Eve a recognised UK Bank Holiday
Open from Tuesday 29th December 2015 to Wednesday 29th June 2016
17 signatures
Create provision in law for Overtime Payments & max normal hours to be 40/week!
Open from Wednesday 28th November 2018 to Tuesday 28th May 2019
17 signatures
Make St George’s Day a national bank holiday in England every year
Opened on
17 signatures so far
Create a new permanent public holiday on the nearest Monday to Midsummers Day
Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
17 signatures
2015 - Agincourt & Waterloo Celebrations
Open from Wednesday 27th February 2013 to Thursday 27th February 2014
17 signatures
Make the Monday after Remembrance Sunday a bank holiday.
Open from Thursday 30th November 2017 to Wednesday 30th May 2018
16 signatures
Government to declare a new annual bank holiday to celebrate essential workers
Open from Thursday 29th October 2020 to Thursday 29th April 2021
16 signatures
To establish a new bank holiday for the UK to be named "UK Diversity Day".
Open from Thursday 30th June 2016 to Friday 30th December 2016
16 signatures
Bank Holiday for England Women's Team Winning the Euros
Open from Wednesday 3rd August 2022 to Friday 17th February 2023
16 signatures
ONE FLOATING BANK HOLIDAY
Open from Thursday 23rd October 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
16 signatures
At least one UK-wide Public Holiday per month
Open from Monday 22nd August 2011 to Wednesday 22nd August 2012
15 signatures
Rename August Bank Holiday "Charity Day"
Open from Tuesday 21st January 2014 to Monday 21st July 2014
15 signatures
Make Halloween a bank holiday.
Open from Wednesday 23rd September 2020 to Tuesday 23rd March 2021
15 signatures
Make every 29 February a "leap year day" Bank Holiday
Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
15 signatures
Stop Penalty Charges for Driving in Bus Lanes on Bank Holidays
Open from Wednesday 21st February 2018 to Tuesday 21st August 2018
14 signatures
Keep May 30th as a Bank Holiday
Open from Tuesday 26th April 2022 to Wednesday 9th November 2022
14 signatures
Make each county’s patron saint day a bank holiday for that individual county
Open from Thursday 14th July 2022 to Saturday 28th January 2023
14 signatures
The proposed bank holiday in October should be called Trafalgar Day
Open from Friday 17th July 2020 to Sunday 17th January 2021
14 signatures
Create a new permanent bank holiday celebrating and encouraging women in sport
Open from Wednesday 3rd August 2022 to Friday 17th February 2023
14 signatures
Make Christmas Eve a Bank Holiday
Open from Friday 15th November 2013 to Saturday 15th November 2014
14 signatures
Make it illegal for UK private nurseries to charge parents for Bank Holidays.
Open from Friday 26th April 2019 to Saturday 26th October 2019
13 signatures
Make June 22nd (or the day after Nightclubs reopen) a bank holiday
Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
13 signatures
Rename future Early May Bank Holidays "Key Worker Day"
Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
13 signatures
Making 11/11/18 a Bank Holiday
Open from Tuesday 15th November 2011 to Thursday 15th November 2012
13 signatures
Celebrate HM Queen Elizabeth becoming longest serving Monarch with Bank Holiday
Open from Tuesday 1st September 2015 to Tuesday 1st March 2016
13 signatures
Create an Autumn Bank Holiday in November
Open from Wednesday 31st August 2016 to Tuesday 28th February 2017
13 signatures
Create an extra bank holiday at Easter 2021 to let people make up for Xmas
Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
13 signatures
NEW NHS BANK HOLIDAY
Open from Monday 16th December 2013 to Sunday 16th March 2014
13 signatures
Make the 24th December 2020 a Bank Holiday
Open from Monday 30th November 2020 to Sunday 30th May 2021
12 signatures
Increase the No of Bank Holidays we receive& bring in line with other countries
Open from Tuesday 3rd September 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
12 signatures
Bank Holiday Pay
Open from Wednesday 31st August 2011 to Friday 31st August 2012
12 signatures
Creation of a temporary bank holiday.
Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
12 signatures
Create a new Bank Holiday on 11 November to honour Veterans. Veterans Day UK
Open from Monday 16th November 2015 to Monday 16th May 2016
11 signatures
Make St David's Day a National Holiday
Open from Friday 9th September 2011 to Sunday 9th September 2012
11 signatures
Move May Bank Holiday(s) to June or July after Lockdown restrictions are lifted.
Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
11 signatures
Ensure that Boxing Day is held specifically on 26th December. Day after Xmas day
Open from Monday 28th November 2016 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
11 signatures
Create a bank holiday in honour of the Windrush generation.
Open from Monday 22nd July 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
11 signatures
Make polling day for a General Election a Bank Holiday.
Open from Monday 21st October 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
11 signatures
Change Polling Day to Monday or Friday to prevent School closures midweek.
Open from Thursday 25th April 2019 to Friday 25th October 2019
10 signatures
Instate a Queens day in honour of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd.
Open from Monday 26th February 2018 to Sunday 26th August 2018
10 signatures
1 Week Holiday in August
Open from Thursday 26th June 2014 to Thursday 26th March 2015
10 signatures
If the average temperature of the UK reaches 30ºC, a bank holiday is declared.
Open from Tuesday 26th July 2016 to Thursday 26th January 2017
10 signatures
New floating national bank holiday in summer linked to hottest, sunniest day
Open from Tuesday 26th July 2016 to Thursday 26th January 2017
10 signatures
Honour Paralympians & Olympians by declaring an extra bank holiday in 2016
Open from Monday 12th September 2016 to Sunday 12th March 2017
10 signatures
Ban lorries on the UK's roads every Sunday & Bank Holiday
Open from Monday 23rd December 2013 to Tuesday 23rd December 2014
9 signatures
Make July 1st Diana Princess of Wales Day
.....a National Bank Holiday....
Open from Monday 9th January 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
9 signatures
Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Burning of Washington
Open from Wednesday 3rd October 2012 to Thursday 3rd October 2013
9 signatures
Make Election's a Bank Holiday
Open from Wednesday 14th December 2011 to Friday 14th December 2012
9 signatures
Recognise Yorkshire Day as a Bank Holiday
Open from Tuesday 16th August 2011 to Thursday 16th August 2012
9 signatures
Queen's birthday holiday
Open from Monday 11th June 2012 to Tuesday 11th June 2013
8 signatures
Pay and working conditions
Open from Wednesday 15th October 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
8 signatures
Make Bonfire night a public holiday
Open from Monday 5th December 2011 to Wednesday 5th December 2012
8 signatures
make Easter Sunday a recognised public holiday
Open from Wednesday 26th March 2014 to Thursday 26th March 2015
7 signatures
Make the day of General Elections a Bank Holiday
Open from Thursday 18th August 2011 to Saturday 18th August 2012
7 signatures
Make a Churchill Day bank holiday.
Open from Tuesday 24th February 2015 to Monday 30th March 2015
7 signatures
England to have a bank holiday every 1st Monday of every month.
Open from Monday 13th June 2016 to Tuesday 13th December 2016
7 signatures
Add a BH on the 1st/2nd Mon of Nov as a perpetual reminder celebrating WW1 & WW2
Open from Friday 1st April 2016 to Saturday 1st October 2016
7 signatures
Finance specialist medical staff 24/7 in NHS Hospitals like pain teams/scans/surgeons instead of Mon - Fri 9 -5. W/ends in hospitals are a nightmare.
Open from Monday 15th August 2011 to Wednesday 15th August 2012
7 signatures
July 7 th 2012 to be national fancy dress day
Open from Monday 24th October 2011 to Wednesday 24th October 2012
6 signatures
Make the Commemorations of First World War a Patriotic National Event
Open from Friday 14th June 2013 to Saturday 14th June 2014
6 signatures
Rename August Bank Holiday Miners' Day
Open from Monday 20th January 2014 to Tuesday 20th January 2015
6 signatures
Instead of an extra bank holiday - take your birthday off !
Open from Wednesday 22nd January 2014 to Thursday 22nd January 2015
6 signatures
Armistice Day bank holiday
Open from Monday 14th November 2011 to Wednesday 14th November 2012
6 signatures
Provide benefit to businesses of less than 5 employees to cover bank holiday pay
Open from Wednesday 4th September 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
6 signatures
New Bank Holiday.
The Epiphany should be a national bank holiday.
Open from Wednesday 13th July 2016 to Friday 13th January 2017
6 signatures
We propose that August Bank Holiday be renamed "Bevan Day."
Open from Friday 28th February 2014 to Thursday 28th August 2014
6 signatures
Armistice Day Bank Holiday
Open from Wednesday 26th November 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
5 signatures
Bank Holiday for Grandparents following the Diamond Jubilee
Open from Thursday 19th January 2012 to Thursday 19th July 2012
5 signatures
WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE USA MODEL OF PROMOTING GB
Open from Monday 23rd June 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
5 signatures
Make February 29th a bank holiday
Open from Monday 6th February 2012 to Wednesday 6th February 2013
5 signatures
A Churchill Day Bank Holiday The Man who stood alone for England
Open from Tuesday 2nd October 2012 to Wednesday 2nd October 2013
5 signatures
Bank Holidays
Open from Monday 15th August 2011 to Wednesday 15th February 2012
5 signatures
Make St Piran's Day a Bank Holiday
Open from Friday 23rd May 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
5 signatures
Team GB Bank Holiday
Open from Friday 24th August 2012 to Saturday 24th November 2012
4 signatures
REDUCE BANK HOLIDAYS
Open from Tuesday 8th May 2012 to Wednesday 8th May 2013
4 signatures
Reconsideration of the Extra Bank Holiday during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Open from Thursday 24th November 2011 to Thursday 24th May 2012
4 signatures
lets have bank holiday fridays instead of mondays
Open from Wednesday 28th August 2013 to Thursday 28th August 2014
4 signatures
Bank Holiday when 3rd in line to the throne is born.
Open from Thursday 6th December 2012 to Wednesday 6th March 2013
4 signatures
Mandela day bank holiday
Open from Tuesday 10th December 2013 to Wednesday 10th December 2014
4 signatures
Move Late Spring Bank Holiday to June
Open from Friday 24th May 2013 to Saturday 24th May 2014
3 signatures
UK Day 19th Sept
Open from Thursday 3rd April 2014 to Thursday 3rd July 2014
3 signatures
Leap year bank holiday
Open from Wednesday 29th February 2012 to Wednesday 29th August 2012
3 signatures
A mid-summer Public Holiday to celebrate Great Britain.
Open from Tuesday 23rd August 2011 to Thursday 23rd August 2012
3 signatures
National Union Holdiay
Open from Wednesday 16th July 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
3 signatures
St Davids Day
Open from Monday 10th February 2014 to Tuesday 10th February 2015
3 signatures
Make Commonwealth Day a National Holiday
Open from Friday 18th November 2011 to Sunday 18th November 2012
3 signatures
Store Bank Holiday Opening Hours
Open from Tuesday 30th August 2011 to Wednesday 29th February 2012
3 signatures
Brittania day bank holiday
Open from Friday 8th June 2012 to Saturday 8th June 2013
3 signatures
David Attenborough Appreciation Day
Open from Thursday 8th December 2011 to Saturday 8th December 2012
3 signatures
Deadline Day Bank Holiday
Open from Friday 2nd September 2011 to Sunday 2nd September 2012
3 signatures
Move Summer Bank Holiday back to Summertime
Open from Tuesday 6th September 2011 to Thursday 6th September 2012
3 signatures
Instruct Local Health Trusts to stop employing European Doctors on short term contracts
Open from Monday 12th September 2011 to Monday 12th March 2012
3 signatures
mandatory time off for bank holidays
Open from Wednesday 4th June 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
2 signatures
CREATE A ST EDMUNDS DAY
Open from Friday 13th January 2012 to Sunday 13th January 2013
2 signatures
Make 28th July 2014 first World War centinary a bank holiday monday
Open from Thursday 1st May 2014 to Friday 1st August 2014
2 signatures
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