St. Annes international kite festival

02/03/2025

01/02/2025

Great news for all our visitors to the festival!

24/01/2025

Oyez Oyez Oyez! Happy New Year Everyone!
We come sharing great news, and hope you can share too!
St Anne's International Kite Festival Returns for 2025 on the 29th 30th 31st August!
This three-day event is a partnership between Fylde Council and SmileFactor10, and will see tens of thousands of visitors from all over the United Kingdom as well as kite fliers from across the globe coming together to fill the skies with colour over the course of the weekend. please share! share! share!

St Annes International Kite Festival 2018 filmed and produced by I Am Sean.

30/09/2024

Sad day today and we all say are farewells and go back to our lives, last night we had a farewell ceremony and gala dinner, our table picked up an amazing 6 awards! And it would seem that line dancing has found its way to the beautiful Bintulu, Borneo. Suffice to say it’s not been a classic due to the weather but we did get one great day on Saturday. We give are inadequate thank yous to Bintulu Development Authority , Donita Kinchang and Gadis Widiyati along with all the volunteers that make Bintulu IKF happen. St. Annes international kite festival was spoken about with great affection by the folks that had been and plenty more besides, I hope you have all enjoyed this little insight into the kiting world, not that I want you all to rush out and buy a kite to save the world but… it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to sign up and join us all on the beach at St Anne’s next year! Peace out ✌️

28/09/2024

The stars aligned and we had a great Saturday, the wind just got better and better. Burnt to a crisp and absolutely shattered but spirits are high this evening!

27/09/2024

I can assure you that no one is more disappointed than kite flyers when the weather doesn’t play ball, cancelling our Sunday was done with a very heavy heart so when we get complaints it does irk a little… imagine travelling 7000 miles and the weather turns on you… still Roti Canai to keep us positive, voted the best bread in the world and it’s easy to see why. I think it’s clearing up!

25/09/2024

7000 miles and one or two hiccups along the way but we’re here! Greeted with A bag full of goodies, lanyard,Shirt and embroidered towel, food tokens to be spent in the town (now there’s a good idea 😉 ) You can check out the running programme here… https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AeLqG-VDLIW6OqZadtvemo7rsttxIpyZ/view?usp=sharing

Looks like we’re going to be busy.

23/09/2024

What can we say? Wow!

23/09/2024

Well, after a bleak damp Filey kite festival we are blessed to be headed to Borneo! And the Bintulu international kite festival, where we will join up with several international kite fliers that attended St Anne’s and I’m sure there will be much talk of our epic nightfly of just 10 days ago, spreading the good word of our festival and St Anne’s on the Sea!

19/09/2024

another great video fresh in from Sarah & Peter Bindon, Sarah & Peter are festival stalwarts and are "Arena Directors" for Arena 2, you may not be aware but every Arena has appointed directors who undertake a large amount of very varied jobs that help the festival go off smoothly and any hiccups can be sorted efficiently.

St. Annes International Kite Festival organised by SmileFactor10 in conjunction with Fylde council was held over the weekend of the 13th, 14th & 15th of Sept...