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Plan UK bank holiday reminders and digests with GOV.UK, Gmail and Slack

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Created by: James Marshall || jmarshall-automations
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Last update 9 hours ago

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Quick overview

Plan around UK bank holidays across England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: timed reminders, a weekly look-ahead digest, last/next working-day cut-offs, an HTML email and optional Google Calendar events. Uses the official GOV.UK feed, no API key.

How it works

  1. Schedule Trigger (daily 08:00), or the manual trigger for testing, reads the Settings node.
  2. HTTP Request fetches https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json.
  3. A Code node merges the chosen nations, finds reminders and digest items, and calculates working-day cut-offs.
  4. A Switch routes to reminder / weekly digest / nothing due.
  5. Output nodes (Gmail, SMTP email, Slack, Google Calendar) are included disabled and without credentials. Enable the ones you want.

Setup

  1. In Settings set divisions, remindDaysBefore, digestWeekday, digestDays and edit customerMessage. Leave todayOverride blank (it is only for testing a given date, YYYY-MM-DD).
  2. Click Test workflow to see the output.
  3. Enable one or more output nodes and connect your own credentials (and choose your calendar for Google Calendar).
  4. Activate the workflow.

Requirements

  • Optional: your own Gmail, SMTP, Slack or Google Calendar credentials for the output nodes (none included).

Additional info

Notes and limits: No credentials are included. Stateless: no stored data and no personal data. GOV.UK only lists announced dates (usually about two years ahead). Dates are compared in UTC, so keep the schedule after midnight UK time. Tested locally on self-hosted n8n 2.8.4 against the live feed (7-day and 1-day reminders, a Monday 90-day digest, and a nothing-due day). Output nodes were not tested with real credentials or on n8n Cloud. Who it's for: UK shops, cafés, trades, e-commerce sellers, agencies, payroll and bookkeepers. Categories: Productivity, Notifications, Small business, Scheduling. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data: GOV.UK UK bank holidays. Not affiliated with or endorsed by GOV.UK.