National Pencil Day

Wednesday 30th March 2022 is known as National Pencil Day #nationalpencilday

A national awareness day that was set up to remind us how useful the simple pencil can be.

This may not seem like the most exciting national awareness day of the year, but for many this can be a good opportunity to highlight their services or products, for example:

• National Stationery retailers - Sharples UK tweeted an image with a fun fact "Did you know the average pencil holds enough graphite to write roughly 45,000 words or draw a line about 35 miles long?!?!" and more importantly a link to their shop. 
• Independent Stationery retailers - independent London based retailer Present & Correct marked the day with regular gifs featuring images of yes you guessed it pencils.
• Books - the daughter of author Thomas Fletcher Smith took the opportunity to share an image of Pencil People, the story of a Lakeland Industry.
• Music - the publicists of of Leonard Bernstein shared an image of the composers collection of pencil stumps and the explanation that he referred to his composing pencil stubs as his "little soldiers".
• Museum - sadly at the time of writing the The Derwent Pencil Museum and Café in Keswick had yet to post a tweet but what a great day it would have been to highlight their journey into the origins of pencils and the history of their manufacture in the UK.

For help finding the right national awareness day for your business and how to use the opportunity for promote your products and services contact Marketing Doris.