Making your annual leave stretch is no mean feat – but it’s doable, we say.
As we move toward the new year, many of us are turning our attention to making the most of our days off for the 12 months that await us. On average most full-time employees get around 20 paid holidays per year.
Whether you’re looking to extend your holidays and/or staycations, or just take advantage of some relaxing days at home, there’s one trick to making those AL days stretch – bank holidays.
Here’s a full list of all the bank holidays we have coming up in 2023 and how to make the most of them.
1st January – New Year’s Day
6th February – St Bridgd’s Day
17th March – Saint Patrick’s Day
10th April – Easter Monday
1st May – May Day
5th June – June Bank Holiday
7th August – August Bank Holiday
30th October – October Bank Holiday
25th December – Christmas Day
26th December – St. Stephen’s Day
For February
With a new bank holiday, you could take a long weekend off, extending 3 days to 5 if you book off Thursday the 2nd and Friday the 3rd of February.
For Easter
If you’re wise with your Easter weekend this year, you could book of Friday the 7th of April, and Tuesday the 11th, giving you a full five days off.
For Summer
If you fancy a summer getaway but don’t want to use up a full week’s worth of annual leave days, take note of this year’s bank holiday dates. We have a Monday off in both June and August, meaning that with weekends you could only use up 4 annual leave days to get a full 9 days away.
For October
If you’re keen for an extra long weekend in October, the bank holiday falls on the second last day, Take a look at whatever annual leave days you have left and cash them in around the 30th of October to make the most of your time off.