Why Britain?Why Now?

2015 - 2016

Joanna SosnowskaMarket Representative Poland

Countryside is GREAT

Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink

Adventure in WalesLongest zip world in Northern Hemisphere

Bounce Below – world’s first subterranean playground

Surf Snowdonia – opens Easter

Rugby World Cup

18 Sept-31 Oct

England and Wales

Cultural openings

Damien Hirst Gallery- London

HOME, Whitworth - Manchester

Wilde Weekend- Enniskillen

Agatha Christie turns 125

English Riviera

Greenway

The Mousetrap – longest running stage show in the world

Happy Birthday Alice (150) and Emma (200)

Explore Alice’s Oxford

Mad Hatter’s teas - London

Jane Austen’s House - Hampshire

Regency Bath

Magna Carta 800

New trails – Kent, Lincoln, Salisbury

Lincoln Castle Revealed

London – British Library

Family BritainShaun the Sheep – now on screens in Poland too!

Party Britain!24 hour Tube from September

But still to come in 2016…

150 years of the Blue Plaques

Oldest scheme of its kind

Lord Byron was the first

Over 880 plaques throughout London

Let’s not forget Shakespeare – again!

400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death

Stratford-upon-Avon

New immersive theatrical experience

From Blenheim to Chatsworth300 years since the birth of Capability Brown

Designed and built more than 170 gardens in Britain

Britain on the big screen

Bond is back!

Tarzan

Through the Looking Glass

Peter Rabbit meets The BFG150 years since the birth of Beatrix Potter- Lake District

100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl - Buckinghamshire

Why Britain? Why Now?

• Celebrate with us

• Visit the locations that have inspired generations

• Explore our heritage, countryside and culture