Global Donut Days 2025

Join us 14-17 October to celebrate and inspire local action and global connection with Doughnut Economics

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Watch all the local action happening worldwide in our Global Donut Days 2024 aftermovie!

Global Donut Days is for everyone

Global Donut Days 2025 is a four-day, community-led festival, held online and in-person around the world, centred on Doughnut Economics, happening 14-17 October 2025.


Global Donut Days is a time to celebrate and inspire the DEAL Community worldwide and an opportunity to foster global connections. 


Last year, Global Donut Days saw participation in over 30 countries, over 80 places, through over 100 events and with more than four thousand people across four days. Check out the worldwide action in our Global Donut Days 2024 aftermovie!


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Our invitation to join Global Donut Days 2024 featuring local organisers from around the world

Want to organise a Global Donut Days event?

We invite you to hold your own GDD event and become a Local Organiser! Register your interest to get more information here. 


Any local group, network or organisation can organise events for GDD. We also welcome local governments that are working with Doughnut Economics to organise events.

Don’t want to organise an event but want to stay updated?

Check back here for updates. We will post major updates on Global Donut Days 2025 and more on Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and/or Bluesky. 

Contact

Have questions or press inquiries? Email us at donutdays@doughnuteconomics.org. 

Watch Global Donut Days 2024

Catch up on online sessions you may have missed last year.

You can watch the sessions from the online programme and access our BSL playlist.

Check out the photos from last year's Global Donut Days


Check out some of the photos taken for Global Donut Days 2024. People have uploaded these to the DEAL Photo Stream using the hashtag 

# global-donut-days hashtag_lookup:#global-donut-days 


Indoor. Three people present and hold up posters with German sayings that have been rewritten in a positive twist. It is a sneak preview of the poster campaign that takes place at the public transport in Berlin a week later
Indoors. A group of people stand in pairs and talk to each other. On the floor are ropes in the shape of a doughnut. They participate in the game "Step into the Doughnut"
Indoors. Two people stand in a conversation.
Indoors. A group of 5 people stand in a line and hold a rope that has been tied together from segments in different colours. It is a preparation for the game "Step into the Doughnut"
Indoors. Maximilian Mauracher is speaking to an audience and shows a flyer of his project "Kreisler" - a repair and share shop for people with few economic resources. The photo is taken from behind the audience and shows their backs and heads directing to the presenter.
Indoors. Isabella Theodoridou is speaking to an audience about the work of her initiative Duvia e.V. that supports young adults from marginalised communities to finish school and find "climate jobs". The photo is taken from behind the audience and shows their backs and heads directing to the presenter.
The audience facing the stage and listening to two speakers
Three groups of approximately 15 people each, sitting and having a discussion
Eight people sitting around a table and one person adding a post it on the table
Large groups of people sitting in circle and one person standing and addressing the audience
Three people performing on the stage, one is on guitar, two are vocals. One of them is a disabled artist on wheelchair with an oxygen mask.
A disabled artist performing on the stage and playing the harp.
Scenario Game Workshop Created by Emilio Sosa, towards a safe and just proposal based on Earth 4 All
Taking Doughnut Economics Business workshop into Mexico City practice
Connecting with people through Doughnut Economics
Reflecting on Doughnut Economics with friends
A safe space
Reflecting on Doughnut Economics with the family
One of the organizations showcasing what they do, we were able to swap a few clothes we no longer needed.
We met Amos, was Kate's student when she taught Economics, and also did the Swahili translation for two Chapters on Kate's Book.
Doughnut Dart Game: Can we aim for a safe and just space for all?
People forming a Doughnut on the beach
Global Donut Days 2025

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