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PAST EVENTS 2016 |
| JANUARY 2016 | |
| 3 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham, B31 2BQ |
| 9 - 14 | 27th Gujarat International Kite Festival, Sabarmati Riverfront, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad, India |
| 10 | NKG fly-in @ Roundhay Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS8 2HH |
| 17 | NKG fly-in @ New Brighton Dips, Wirral, Merseyside |
| 24 | MKF Fly-in @ Calke Abbey (National Trust), Ticknall, near Melbourne, Derbyshire DE73 7LE |
| 31 | Essex Kite Group fly-in, Hainault Country Park, Chigwell, Essex IG7 4QW |
| FEBRUARY 2016 | |
| 7 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 14 | MKF fly-in @ Market Bosworth Country Park, Market Bosworth, Near Nuneaton, Leicestershire CV13 0LP |
| MARCH 2016 | |
| 6 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 13 | NKG fly-in @ near the Coast Guard Station, Burbo Bank Road North, Crosby, near Liverpool, Merseyside |
| 13 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 20 | NKG fly-in @ on the beach, near the Leisure Centre, Fleetwood, Lancashire FY7 6HF |
| 20 | NKG fly-in @ Pontefract Racecourse, Pontefract, Yorkshire |
| 20 | Fly Kites not Drones, Bellahouston Park, Mosspark Boulevard/Auldbar Road, Glasgow G41 5BW |
| 20 | Fly Kites Not Drones, The Meadows, by the Meadows Pavilion Café, Edinburgh EH9 9EX |
| 28 | Minchinhampton Easter Kite Day (hosted by Stroud Kite Flyers), Minchinhampton Common, near Stroud, Gloucestershire |
| APRIL 2016 | |
| 3 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 9 - 17 | 30th International Berck-sur-Mer Kite Festival, 5 Avenue Francis Tattegrain, 62600 Berck-Sur-Mer, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France |
| 10 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 10 | NKG fly-in, Next to the Pier on St Anne's Beach, Lancashire |
| 10 | NKG fly-in, Roundhay Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| 17 | Annual Spring Kite Day @ Rufford Country Park, near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire NG22 9DF |
| 17 | NKG fly-in, overlooking the Mersey, Otterspool, South Liverpool, Merseyside |
| 21 - 1/5 | 36th Cervia International Kite Festival, Spiaggia di Pinarella, Cervia, Italy |
| 23 & 24 | North Hants Kiters Jolly Up 18, on the field off Southlea, Farleigh Road, Cliddesden, near Basingstoke, Hampshire RG25 2JL |
| 30 - 2/5 | Blyth International Kite Festival with NEKF, Links Road, South Beach, Blyth, Northumberland NE24 3PH |
| 30 - 2/5 | |
| 30 - 2/5 | Weymouth Beach Kite Festival, The Seafront, Weymouth, Dorset |
| MAY 2016 | |
| 1 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 1 & 2 | Weymouth Beach Kite Festival, The Seafront, Weymouth, Dorset |
| 1 & 2 | Blyth International Kite Festival with NEKF, Links Road, South Beach, Blyth, Northumberland NE24 3PH |
| 7 & 8 | Bridlington Kite Festival in assoc. with the Northern Kite Group, Sewerby Fields, Bridlington, North Yorkshire YO15 1ER |
| 8 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 15 | MKF Fly-in @ Kedleston Hall, near Quarndon, Derby, Derbyshire DE22 5JH |
| 15 | 18th Streatham Common Kite Day, Streatham Common, London SW16 3EN |
| 20 - 22 | Victoria International Kite Festival, British Columbia, Canada |
| 21 & 22 | 2nd Middleton Park Kite Festival in assoc. with the Northern Kite Group, Middleton Park, Town Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS10 3SH |
| 21 & 22 | 20th Le Festival Plein Vent, Plage d'Houlgate, Houlgate, Côte Fleurie, Normandy, France |
| 27 - 30 | Kite flying and drumming: drumming for kitefliers, kiteflying for drummers, The Hub, Barnard Castle Co. Durham DL12 8TD |
| 27 - 31 | Margam Kite Festival, Margam County Park, Margam, Port Talbot, South Wales SA13 2TJ |
| 28 | Kites on Walmer Beach, The Beach, Walmer, Deal, Kent CT14 7HJ |
| 28 - 30 | Birdoswald Hadrian's Wall Kite Festival, Birdoswald Roman Fort, Gilsland, Brampton, Cumbria CA8 7DD |
| 29 | MKF fly-in @ Market Bosworth Country Park, Market Bosworth, Near Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV13 0LP |
| 29 | Family Kite Day, Minchinhampton Common, near Stroud, Gloucestershire GL6 9AQ |
| JUNE 2016 | |
| 4 & 5 | 24th Basingstoke Kite Festival, Down Grange Sports Complex, Pack Lane, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG22 5SN |
| 5 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 11 & 12 | STACK UK National Championship – Southern Rounds at Dunstable Downs Whipsnade Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU6 2GY |
| 12 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 16 - 19 | 32nd Fano International Kite Fliers meeting, Fano Beach, Denmark |
| 18 & 19 | Kites over Souter Kite Festival, Souter Lighthouse, Coast Rd, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR6 7NH |
| 18 & 19 | 4th Kite and RC Model Show, Sumners Ponds, Barns Green, Horsham, West Sussex RH13 0PR |
| 19 | Layer Marney Tower Classic Car Show and Kite Display, Layer Marney, Colchester, Essex CO5 9US |
| 19 | Beacon Park Kite Festival in association with the NKG, Beacon Hill County Park, Up Holland, nr Skelmersdale, Lancashire WN8 7RZ |
| 19 | 22nd Calke Abbey Kite Day, Calke Abbey (National Trust), Ticknall, near Melbourne, Derbyshire DE73 7LE |
| 25 & 26 | Kites at Sellindge, Sellindge Sports & Social Club, Swan Lane, Sellindge, Kent TN25 6HB |
| 25 & 26 | Barmouth Kite Festival, on the beach opposite the Lifeboat Station, Barmouth, Mid Wales |
| JULY 2016 | |
| 2 & 3 | 2nd Bognor Regis Kite Festival, West Park, Bognor Regis, West Sussex |
| 2 & 3 | 7th International Vliegerfeest Twenterand, Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk, Overijssel, Netherlands |
| 3 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 9 - 30 | Far Horizons, an exhibition of kites from around the world, Artlink Centre for Community Arts, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP |
| 9 & 10 | 38th Annual Brighton Kite Festival, Stanmer Park, Brighton, West Sussex BN1 9SE |
| 10 | MKF Fly-in @ Sconce and Devon Park, Boundary Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG24 4AU |
| 10 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 16 & 17 | Leominster and Hereford Kite Festival, The National Trust, Berrington Hall, Leominster, Herefordshire HR6 0DW |
| 16 & 17 | Catch the Wind Kite Festival, The Promenade, Marine Road West, Morecambe, Lancashire LA4 4BU |
| 23 & 24 | Shropshire Kite Festival, Lacon Childe School, Love Lane, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire DY14 8PE |
| 9 - 30 | Far Horizons, an exhibition of kites from around the world, Artlink Centre for Community Arts, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP |
| 27 - 31 | Annual Camber Kite Festival Weekend, Camber, near Rye, East Sussex TN31 7PA |
| 30 & 31 | 5th St. Annes International Kite festival, on the beach, Lytham st Annes, near Blackpool, Lancashire |
| 30 & 31 | 16th Dunstable Downs Kite Festival, Whipsnade Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU6 2GY |
| 30 & 31 | Far Horizons International Kite Weekend, Beverley Racecourse, Beverley, near Hull, East Yorkshire HU17 8QZ |
| AUGUST 2016 | |
| 6 & 7 | North Hants Kiters Jolly Up 19, on the field off Southlea, Farleigh Road, Cliddesden, near Basingstoke, Hampshire RG25 2JL |
| 7 | Royston Rotary Charity Kite Festival, Therfield Heath, Royston, Herts SG8 5BG |
| 7 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 13 & 14 | Teston Bridge Kitebility Kite Weekend, Teston Bridge Country Park, Teston Lane, nr Maidstone, Kent ME18 5BX |
| 13 & 14 | 5th Prudhoe Kite Festival, Highfield Park, Prudhoe, near Newcastle, Northumberland NE42 6EY |
| 13 & 14 | 25th Portsmouth International Kite Festival, Southsea Common, Portsmouth, Hampshire |
| 14 | KCoS fly-in, Howden Park, Livingston, Scotland EH54 6AE |
| 14 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 21 | NKG fly-in, on the beach, near the Leisure Centre, Fleetwood, Lancashire FY7 6HF |
| 21 | 20th Hunstanton Kite Festival and Classic Car Rally, Smithdon High School Sports Field, Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 5HY |
| 26 - 28 | 6th Leba International Kite Festival, The Beachfront, Łeba, Poland |
| 27 & 28 | Exmouth Kite Festival, The Imperial Recreation Ground, Exmouth, Devon EX8 1DG |
| 28 | KCoS Mass fly-in, The Low Green, Ayr, Scotland KA7 2AR |
| 28 | MKF Fly-in @ Croome, (NT), near High Green, Worcester, Worcestershire WR8 9DW |
| SEPTEMBER 2016 | |
| 3 & 4 | National Museum of Flight Kite Festival, with NEKF and KCOS, East Fortune Airfield, Edinburgh, Scotland EH39 5LF |
| 4 | Layer Marney Tower Kite Festival, Layer Marney, Colchester, Essex CO5 9US |
| 4 | Telford Kite Festival, Town Park, Telford, Shropshire TF4 3NZ |
| 10 - 18 | Dieppe Capitale du Cerf-Volant 2016, The Seafront, Dieppe, Normandy, France |
| 11 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 11 | Hoghton Tower Kite Festival, Near Blackburn, Lancashire PR5 0SH |
| 11 | Wick Country Park Kite Festival and Classic Car Show, Wickford, Essex SS12 9GP |
| 17 & 18 | 16th Festival Internacional de Barrilete, Parque Scalabrini Ortiz, 2000 Rosario, Argentina |
| 18 | 13th Kedleston Hall Kite Day, Kedleston Hall, near Quarndon, Derby, Derbyshire DE22 5JH |
| 18 | EKG Kite Meeting, Hainault Forest Country Park, Romford Road, Chigwell, Essex IG7 4QN |
| 24 & 25 | Scheveningen International Kite Festival Scheveningen beach, Strandweg, 2586 JK, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 25 | 1st Kite Day, Jinney Ring Craft Centre, Hanbury Rd, Hanbury, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B60 4BU |
| 25 | Wakefield Kite Day, Heath Common, Wakefield, Yorkshire WF1 5SL |
| 25 | The Capstone Festival, Capstone Country Park, Chatham, Kent ME7 3JG |
| OCTOBER 2016 | |
| 2 | ExKitement, Apedale Community Park, Alsagers Bank, Apedale, nr Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire ST5 7LB |
| 7 - 9 | Jakarta International Kite Festival, Garden City, Cakung, East Jakarta |
| 9 | 31st ONE SKY ONE WORLD - an Annual Worldwide event, flying kites for peace: |
| 9 | WHKF OSOW @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 9 | NKG OSOW @ overlooking the Mersey, Otterspool, South Liverpool, Merseyside |
| 9 | NKG OSOW @ Pontefract Racecourse, Pontefract, Yorkshire |
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| 9 | MKF OSOW @ Market Bosworth Country Park, Market Bosworth, Near Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV13 0LP |
| 9 | MKF OSOW @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham, B31 2BQ |
| 9 | KKF OSOW @ Radnor Park, Folkestone, Kent CT19 5HY |
| 9 | EKG OSOW, Hylands Park, London Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 8WQ |
| 9 | NHKF OSOW, on the field off Southlea, Farleigh Road, Cliddesden, near Basingstoke, Hampshire RG25 2JL |
| 15 & 16 | WHKF Ralf Maserski workshop, Hook Village Hall, Wiltshire - Nearest post code is SN4 8EF |
| 16 | NKG Light Up The Sky, overlooking the Mersey, Otterspool, South Liverpool, Merseyside |
| NOVEMBER 2016 | |
| 5 | NHKF Light Up The Sky, on the field off Southlea, Farleigh Road, Cliddesden, near Basingstoke, Hampshire RG25 2JL |
| 6 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 10 - 13 | XXIX Festival Internacional de Cometas, parque Natural Dunas de Corralejo, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands |
| 13 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
| 20 | NKG fly-in, Worden Park, Car park off Worden Lane, Leyland, Lancashire PR25 3DH |
| DECEMBER 2016 | |
| 4 | MKF Fly-in @ Cofton Park, Longbridge, Birmingham B31 2BQ |
| 11 | WHKF fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wilshire |
| 11 | NKG Xmas fly-in, overlooking the Mersey, Otterspool, South Liverpool, Merseyside |
| 27 | WHKF Christmas Pudding Fly-in @ Barbury Castle Country Park, near Swindon, Wiltshire |
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