South Asian Heritage Month runs from 18^th July to 17^th August every year. The national awareness month promotes British South Asian heritage and history through education, arts, culture and commemoration, with the goal of helping people to better understand the diversity of present-day Britain.

South Asian Heritage Month came about as a culmination of several grassroots initiatives and projects over the last 15 years, including most recently the various projects and documentaries in 2017 which marked the 70^th anniversary of the independence of India, the birth of Pakistan, and the Partition of Punjab and Bengal. The British and Irish  Orthoptic Society recognises the diversity within the Orthoptic workforce and celebrates  South Asian Heritage Month.