New St David’s Day Bank Holiday Campaign Launched

Penderyn Distillery is supporting a fresh campaign to make St. David's Day a bank holiday.

The campaign, which includes a Facebook group, Twitter page and a Downing Street petition, is aimed at changing government legislation to allow for a public holiday on the 1st of March, remembering St David, the Patron Saint of Wales.

A poll conducted by the BBC in 2006 found that 87% of Welsh people wanted St David’s Day to be a bank holiday, and many support a holiday on St David’s Day even if it would mean a holiday was lost from another day. However no government petition has ever been ratified.

There is overwhelming support in Wales for St David’s Day to be a public holiday, and the time is ripe for people to demonstrate their support for this. Other countries such as Ireland honour their patron saints with a public holiday which is entwined in their culture, and we see this as a great opportunity to bring the country together and celebrate Wales’s unique culture and history.

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