Leeds Festival is one of two major festivals that takes place in the UK this August, but to celebrate safely you’ll need to keep this full list of banned items in mind
Leeds Festival 2025 kicks off later this week with headliners Chappell Roan, Travis Scott, Hozier and Bring Me The Horizon. The festival, which runs alongside Reading Festival, welcomes early-bird campers on Wednesday, August 20, with musical performances spanning Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Previous year’s main acts featured Lana Del Rey, Liam Gallagher, and Blink 182. Alongside the aforementioned headliners, this year’s lineup boasts performances from acts including Limp Bizkit, The Kooks, Rudimental, Becky Hill and Leigh-Anne, amongst other major names.
Fortunately for UK festival-goers, Met Office predictions indicate dry conditions throughout the rest of the week, with sunny spells breaking through cloudy periods. This contrasts sharply with the 2024 event when Storm Lillian battered the event, forcing stage closures and act cancellations.
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For attendee safety at Bramham Park, Leeds, certain items are prohibited from entry to the site, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Forbidden items include animals, blow torches, and fireworks amongst additional restricted goods. No receipts will be provided for any seized/surrendered items and they cannot be retrieved following the festival.
The Leeds Festival website states: “You may be subject to more enhanced searches of bags and personal belongings. We request that you cooperate with any security requests and searches. Please pack light!” The festival organisers have issued a stern warning that campfires and disposable BBQs will be strictly prohibited at both the campsite and the arena in 2025.
We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of items that are banned, as well as those that are permitted in the campsite but not the arena.
Items banned across the festival site:
- Aerosols over 250ml
- Air Horns / Megaphones
- Animals (except for registered hearing dogs or guide dogs).
- Any goods for unauthorised trading with unauthorised Reading/Leeds Festival logos
- Anything that could reasonably be considered for use as a weapon including oversized lighters or any item which may cause danger, offence or disruption to any other person.
- Balloons
- Blow torches
- Catapults
- Chinese / Sky lanterns / Paper Lanterns
- Clothing/Garments/Items which promote Cultural Appropriation
- Disposable BBQs
- Non-Disposable BBQs
- Dogs (except for registered hearing dogs or guide dogs)
- Disposable vapes (note, refillable vapes are permitted)
- Drones and other flying devices
- Excessive amounts of food (i.e. more than for personal consumption)
- Fireworks/Pyrotechnics, Flares/Distress Flares
- Generators (unless in campervan)
- Glass bottles, jars, containers over 100ml (small items like perfume bottles/nail varnish under this size are permitted)
- Illegal Substances (drugs) and legal highs, herbal highs, new psychoactive substances and unidentifiable substances – including Nitrous Oxide
- Nitrous Oxide and any items associated with the taking of NPS and NOS (including balloons, whipped cream dispensers, water crackers / CO2 dispensers)
- Penknife
- Perfume and makeup (over 100ml)
- Petrol Burner
- Portable laser equipment and pens
- Skateboards, rollerblades, hover-boards, scooters, bicycles, and other personal motorised and non-motorised vehicles
- Sound systems (small portable speakers are permitted in campsites)
- Spray Cans
- Unauthorised professional film or video equipment, radios or walkie talkies
- Unauthorised solicitation or marketing materials (e.g., handbills, flyers, stickers)
- Unofficial tabards and reflective jackets
Items allowed only in the campsite (not the arena):
- Alcohol for personal consumption 18+ (only before 6pm on Sunday evening)
- Audio Recorders
- Bags larger than A4 size
- Camping Equipment including cutlery, tin openers (weekend ticket holders only) – Leatherman style multi tools are not permitted
- Cans
- Chairs / Stools / Inflatable Loungers
- Cool Bags/Boxes (if for personal use)
- Drinks of any size in plastic and metal reusable bottles (no glass) – only sealed soft drinks under 500ml are permitted into the arena
- Fitted Gas Canisters/Cylinders in Campervans
- Flags
- Flat based cooking stoves: meth stoves (incl. fuel), trangia stoves, solid fuel/hexi stoves, gel stoves, green base camp cooker, firelighter stoves (fuel limited to 1L per stove; only gas canisters of 250ml or less)
- Gas canisters for cooking stoves (250ml or less, fuel limited to 1L per stove)
- Gazebos
- Selfie Sticks
- Umbrellas (including Golf Umbrellas)
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