In addition to our regular fly-ins, the club organises an annual festival, workshops, socials and visits to kite festivals throughout the country. We are active in the local community organising workshops and demonstrations for local schools, charities and other societies.

In 1995 we founded South Western Kite Fliers with the Bath Kite Society. This umbrella organisation enables both clubs to provide better and more cost effective services to their members, as well as promoting contact with other kite fliers. Other kite groups in the South West of England are welcome to affiliate.

In 1997 we twinned with Banlieue Sud Cerf-Volant a French Kite Club based in the small town of Saclay on the outskirts of Paris. We arrange trips to each others festivals, at which we hold a friendly competition for a trophy and also meet up at other major events like Dieppe.

In 2001 GVKF’s Adrian Welsh was the sole UK representative at the Hong Kong International Kite Festival.

Later in the year we took part in Light up the Sky for BBC Children in Need, holding an illuminated Kite Display and Sponsored Teddy Bear Parachuting at Tewkesbury in partnership with the Friends of Alderman Knight School and raised £232 for Children in Need.