Grandparents Day in United Kingdom
Grandparents Day in United Kingdom is held on October 4. First Sunday in October. This event in the first decade of the month October is annual. 
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The celebration was promoted in 1990 by the NGO Age Concern.
If you check out the high street card shops, you may notice that Grandparents’ Day cards don’t take up much shelf space. The autumnal months were chosen to honour the autumn years of a grandparent’s life. The charity, which is now known as Age UK, first introduced Grandparents’ Day in 1990, with the first British celebrations beginning in 2008. It takes place annually on the first Sunday in October, unlike the American celebration in September.
Grandparents aren't sitting by the phone. Most grandparents don't see spoiling the grandchildren as their special role.
A holiday slowly growing in popularity around the world, Grandparents’ Day is a day in which you can dedicate your time to showing the grandparents in your life just how special they are.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
National Grandparents Day in Italy on October 2 (La Festa dei Nonni);
Grandparents Day in South Africa on October 4 (First Sunday in October);
Father's Day in Luxembourg on October 4 (first Sunday in October);
Grandmothers' Day in Germany on October 11 (Second Sunday in October);
Grandparents Day in Hong Kong on October 11 (Celebrated since 1990 on the second Sunday of October);
Grandparents Day in Pakistan on October 11 (Second Sunday in October);
Bolivian Woman's Day on October 11 (Día de la Mujer Boliviana - the birthday of Adela Zamudio, a national pioneer in the fight against discrimination);
National Father–Daughter Day in the United States on October 11 (on the second Sunday of October);
Girl's Day in El Salvador on October 11 (Día de la niña)