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Southport will be hosting, for the third year, the SonFest Christian Music Festival again, in a brand new location this year, on 3rd September. SonFest will be held in the newly refurbished King's Garden, along the Promenade. Once again, this year the free event will provide free live music for the entire day, carrying positive messages and encouragement for all ages. In addition, there will be line-up of free... Read More»

Free Bikeability courses during this summer is being offered to teenagers at the Sleaford Leisure Centre, on Eastbanks, Lincolnshire, on 8th August, to equip them with skills that will help to deal with more challenging traffic and all types of road conditions. Youngsters from 11 years to 16 years old are offered the Bikeability Level 3 course, that helps them deal with hazards, assessing risks while moving, planning safe... Read More»

Folk On The Dock is the new folk festival to be held at Albert Dock's main stage during the last weekend in August (27 and 28 August) over the August Bank Holiday (29 August). Janice Long, the BBC Radio 2 DJ, will be hosting the event, described as an “exuberant celebration of live acoustic folk, sea shanty and roots music”, which is part of the Albert Dock Liverpool 175... Read More»

The Swim Safe programme is running water safety and outdoor swimming sessions for free from 30th July to 18th August for the public, to be held in Sandbanks Beach, Bournemouth Up to 2,700 children will be benefited from the programme, delivered by a partnership between the RNLI and ASA (Amateur Swimming Association), which features a lifeguard taking a land-based safety lesson. This is followed by a in-water tuition with... Read More»

The only free-for-all annual festival of theatre of London, the Free Open-Air Theatre season, returns. Running from 2003, the event this year is part of the London Bridge city Summer Festival, which is offering 40,000 free tickets. No need of booking, just come and take a ticket for a seat, to attend great theatre performances, within the heart of London. The Gods and Monsters Theatre are presenting a new... Read More»

The University of Central Lancashire, Preston, is organising a free literary event on 21st July, Thursday. It is an evening of literary activity being held for northern writers and publishers. The free event aims to help up and coming authors to get published. The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) event is a literary evening aimed at book and writing enthusiasts and will be hosted in the UCLan capmpus' Darwin... Read More»

Surrey Docks Watersports Centre is welcoming participants to Greenland Dock to join free sessions of try-outs offered for windsurfing and sailing. The sessions will be held on 16 July, 14 August and 17 September, as part of Summer of Sailing being organised ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, by the Royal Yachting Association (RYA). A team of professional instructors will be present for guidance at the centre overlooking Greenland... Read More»

Luton town will be getting a beach next month! Love Luton will be hosting the 'Summer in the Sun', a free event which will be running from 20th August to 26th August. Sponsored by 'Luton on Sunday', the event will see the Bedfordshire town's George Square transform into a 'beach'. The space filled with more than 100 tonnes of sand, will have people enjoying it with the deck chairs,... Read More»

The Foyle Maritime Festival will be welcoming tens of thousands of visitors to the banks for a celebration of all things nautical, running from 9th July to 17th July. There will be many events and spectacles during the river based course of the festival, organised by the Derry and Strabane Council. The finale event will be an event to remember on 16th July (Saturday). 'The Voyage of Sunniva- Night... Read More»

The Blackburn Museum will be hosting at the Museum street-based venue, the Blackburn Rave Culture, an exhibition looking at both the legacy and cultural impacts of the acid house music scene with snapshots into Blackburn's rave scene. The exhibition is a flashback to the period of 1989 to 1990, a blast from the past that ravers from the late 80s and early 90s can enjoy. The city had then... Read More»

Artists across Swindon are prepared to open up doors of their studios for the Swindon Open Studios event which wilt be returning in September, on its first two weekends. The free event will have more than 50 artist open up their studios or homes to the general public, to give them a chance to know more about the artist and their creative work. Members of the Swindon Open Studios... Read More»

Belfast will see this summer the Gin Fest 2016 happening from 7th July to 20th August. For nearly two months the city's Nicolson's pub, the Crown Liquor Saloon, will be celebrating the greatness of gin. The event will showcase 32 different premiuum versions of the tipple. Not to be missed are unique gin infused cocktails, gin parties, master-classes and a raft of free giveaways everyday. Gin lovers will have a feast... Read More»