Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is the world’s most famous stage. Its breath-taking auditorium hosts over 370 shows a year by the world’s greatest artists from rock and pop, to classical music and ballet, to circus. Opened in 1871 as part of Prince Albert’s vision for a centre for the Arts and Sciences, the Hall is a registered charity which operates without any public revenue funding. It also welcomes many younger audiences and artists with over 120 events a year in the Elgar Room, a state-of-the-art small-scale performance space, and the Café Consort, and works extensively with schools and young people through its Education programme, reaching over 30,000 participants each year.

Kent Ballooning

April - October

Kent

Spitfire has taken to the skies in style; a hot air balloon, courtesy of Kent Ballooning. The 16-passenger Spitfire hot air balloon can be seen across the South East between April and October. The balloon has a volume of 355,000 cubic feet – large enough to fit 16 million pints of Spitfire inside it! For booking information, visit

Cricket

The sky’s the limit for Kent’s cricketers this season as Spitfire continues to sponsor the Kent Spitfires one-day side in competitions such as the Twenty20 Cup and the ECB 40 League.

Other sports

Spitfire supports a range of sports from grassroots to county level across the South East. Last summer, 600 cricket teams from the Shepherd Neame sponsored Home Counties leagues battled it out in the Spitfire Twenty20 club knockout tournament while, each spring, rugby players from all over the UK travel to Canterbury to contest the Kent Spitfire Sevens. Spitfire also supports the RAF Sevens teams and rugby cup competitions in Sussex. Spitfire has also sponsored the European Open Golf and other high profile sporting tournaments.