Press release: 29 October 2007

The UK's leading voluntary sector organisations are today (Monday) marking the longest period between bank holidays by calling for a new Community Day holiday in October to celebrate the work of UK's 20 million volunteers.

Why are Britain's leading voluntary sector organisations calling for a new bank holiday? Watch our video to find out more about the campaign.

Are you one of the nation's 3.5 million Facebook addicts? If so, show your support and help spread the word with your friends by joining our CommunityDay Facebook group, and telling us more about what you think of the campaign.

Getting the support of MPs from all parties will be an important part of the campaign for a Community Day. Please take a moment to help out by writing to your MP to ask them to get on board.

Do you run a blog or personal site? If you do and you'd like to support the campaign, please link to us and help spread the word.

We've made some natty buttons that you can use to do so. Either save them to your own site, or just use the HTML code supplied here to put them on your site.