Info

The Essentials
Tickets
Accessibility
Contact

The Essentials

Item	Arena	Campsite
Aerosols (over 250ml)	✗	✗
Air Horns	✗	✗
Alcohol for personal consumption 18+	✗	✔
Animals (other than registered hearing dogs or guide dogs)	✗	✗
Any goods for unauthorised trading with unauthorised Leeds Festival logos	✗	✗
Anything reasonably considered a weapon, oversized lighters, or items causing danger/offence/disruption	✗	✗
Audio Recorders	✗	✔
Bags larger than A4 size***	✗	✔
Balloons	✗	✗
Blankets	✗	✔
Balaclavas, ski masks, face coverings	✗	✗
BBQs of any kind incl. disposable	✗	✗
Blowtorches	✗	✗
Cameras, film or video equipment (lenses under 6 inches; professional equipment strictly prohibited)	✔	✔
Camping equipment incl. cutlery, tin openers (weekend ticket holders only; no Leatherman-style multi-tools)	✗	✔
Cans	✗	✔
Candles & Incense	✗	✗
Catapults	✗	✗
Chairs / Stools / Inflatable Loungers / Floor Seating / Shooting Sticks	✗	✔
Chinese/Sky lanterns, Paper Lanterns, Kites	✗	✗
Cigarettes for personal use (excessive amounts confiscated)	✔	✔
Clothing/garments/items promoting cultural appropriation	✗	✗
Flat-based cooking stoves for personal use only (Meth Stoves, Trangia Stoves, Solid Fuel/Hexi Stoves with fuel blocks or firelighters, Gel Fuel, Greenheat Basecamp Cooker, Firelighter Stoves; fuel limited to max 1L per stove and max gas canisters of 250g or less)	✗	✔
Single-use vapes (refillable vapes permitted)	✗	✗
Deodorant - roll on	✔	✔
Sealed drinks bottles, no glass — only sealed soft drinks under 500ml permitted into the arena***	✗	✔
Drones and other flying devices	✗	✗
Empty reusable plastic & metal bottles / coffee cups of any size (coffee cups must be empty)	✔	✔
Excessive amounts of food (i.e. more than for personal consumption)***	✗	✗
Firewood	✗	✗
Fire / Campfire / Fire baskets / Fire Pits / Chimeneas	✗	✗
Fireworks/Pyrotechnics, Flares/Distress Flares, Smoke Bombs	✗	✗
Fitted gas canisters/cylinders in campervans	✗	✔
Flags, flags with poles, banners	✗	✔
Gas canisters for cooking stoves (250ml or less, max 4 per stove)	✗	✔
Gazebos and parasols	✗	✔
Gas cylinders/canisters of any size for non-cooking purposes (incl. nitrous oxide)	✗	✗
Generators (unless fitted in campervans)	✗	✗
Glass bottles, jars, containers over 100ml (small items like perfume bottles, nail varnish, small mirrors permitted)	✗	✗
Illegal substances (drugs), legal highs, herbal highs, new psychoactive substances and unidentifiable substances	✗	✗
Large sound systems prohibited. Small battery-powered handheld speakers permitted in campsites only (max 20x20x20cm, not linkable, low volume, non-compliant items confiscated)	✗	✔
Medication (with doctor's note/prescription or recognisable, in original packaging)	✔	✔
Megaphone	✗	✗
Motorcycle Helmets	✗	✗
Nitrous oxide & related items (balloons, whipped cream dispensers, CO2 dispensers)	✗	✗
Penknife / Multi-tools	✗	✗
Petrol Burner	✗	✗
Laser equipment and pens	✗	✗
Selfie Sticks	✗	✔
Single-use vapes (refillable vapes still permitted)	✗	✗
Skateboards, rollerblades, hoverboards, scooters, bicycles, other personal motorised/non-motorised vehicles	✗	✗
Spray cans	✗	✗
Trolleys (to pull younger children along) & Prams	✗	✔
Golf Umbrellas	✗	✔
Unauthorised professional cameras, film or video equipment, incl. professional camera equipment (e.g. camera stand, lenses), radios or walkie-talkies	✗	✗
Unauthorised solicitation or marketing materials (e.g. handbills, flyers, stickers)	✗	✗
Unofficial tabards and reflective/hi-vis jackets	✗	✗
Weapons	✗	✗

‍

LEEDS PROHIBITED ITEMS

There will be no receipts issued for any confiscated/surrendered items and they will not be available to collect after the festival.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!Please note, campfires and disposable BBQs are banned from both the campsite and the arena in 2026

Stove fuel limited to maximum of 1L per stove and maximum of x4 gas canisters of 250mls or less per stove. Any liquid fuel such as Meth Stoves (with 1L methylated fuel/spirit max) and/or Trangia Stoves (1L Trangia fuel max) should be in an appropriate approved container to ensure that it can be used and stored safely.

‍

Accessibility Customers Prohibited Item Policy

Food:
All customers are permitted to bring a small amount of food for personal consumption into the arena. Accessibility customers are permitted to bring additional food in excess of the usual amount into the arena.
(This increased allowance applies to accessibility customers only and not to essential companions or friends and family).

Drink:
All customers are permitted to bring a sealed, unopened 500ml bottle of water or soft drink into the arena.
Accessibility customers are permitted to bring one sealed, unopened bottle up to 1.5l of water or soft drink into the arena.
(This increased allowance applies to accessibility customers only and not to essential companions or friends and family).

Bag Restrictions in the Arena:
For security reasons, we ordinarily only permit customers to bring a small bag (A4 size) into the arena. Accessibility customers are entitled to bring a bigger bag into the arena. (One bag only per accessibility customer).

‍

The Event is produced for the enjoyment of all attendees. We reserve the right to evict anyone from site for the reasons outlined below. The decision whether to evict will be at the discretion of the Eviction Team / Security Coordinator following advice from security personnel.

Reasons for eviction:

Entering or being inside the Event without a ticket or relevant pass/ wristband;
Unacceptable, disruptive or anti-social behaviour; *
Having been arrested or cautioned in connection with a criminal offence, pending or post-hand-over to the Police.
*Unacceptable behaviour that can lead to eviction includes but is not limited to:

Illegal activity;

breaching the terms and conditions of entry;
failing to submit to a search as a condition of entry:
harassing or causing distress to staff or other attendees including (but not limited to) sexual harassment, discrimination, abusive behaviour, and offensive language;
filming or photographing staff in a manner likely to constitute harassment or cause distress
throwing any objects in the direction of people;
encouraging others to behave badly by incitement;
preventing security or emergency responders reacting to a situation;
building or fueling fires including throwing gas canisters onto fires;
committing a criminal offence but not arrested by the police;
in possession of unlawful drugs;
unofficially selling alcohol, tobacco, counterfeit goods or any other unauthorised goods;
ticket touting;
any other behaviour that leaves the Event open to prosecution or is not conducive to maintaining a safe Event.
‍

All evictees will be processed via Eviction Team / Security Coordinator, and their wristbands / tickets will be removed to prevent them from re-entering the Event.
All persons presented for eviction by security will be interviewed by the Eviction Team / Security Coordinator who are independent of security, and their details will be recorded in a database with their full personal details, a photograph, date and time and the reasons for eviction.
All evictees will be able to make a free telephone call if they do not have a mobile phone to contact members of their group and/or family.
Evictees will need to phone a friend at the Event to collect their belongings before their eviction as they will not be permitted back into the Event to find them. We will not be responsible for ensuring that they leave the Event with their belongings.
Evictees will receive a letter detailing the eviction process.
Evictees are liable to receive a life time ban from purchasing tickets or working/volunteering for any LNE / FR Events.

Tickets

Accessibility

ACCESSIBLE FACILITIES

Accessible Campsite

Our accessible campsite is a dedicated camping area for accessibility customers and their friends and family. You can request to stay in this campsite when completing the application form. The following facilities are available within this campsite.

• A dedicated accessibility information hub staffed by the accessibility team.

• Wheelchair accessible and standard unisex toilets.

• Wheelchair accessible and standard unisex showers.

• Hard standing or temporary pathways.

• A changing places unit featuring an adult changing bed, toilet, sink and hoist. (Please note that hoist slings will not be available. Please remember to bring your own if you wish to make use of this facility.)

• Charging facilities for wheelchairs, mobility scooters and medical equipment.

• A sink and drinking water points.

• Access to a kettle and/or hot water.

• A secure fridge to store medication that requires cold storage.

• An electric power supply to your tent for medical equipment (if requested and approved as part of your application).

Campervans

Accessible campervan spaces are limited and sold on a first come first served basis. You will be able to apply for one when you complete the accessible facilities application form.

If a space is available, you will be sent a link to purchase a ticket. This is separate from your festival ticket.

Accessible viewing areas

There are raised viewing platforms and ground viewing areas available within the arena.

Accessible toilets

Wheelchair accessible and standard toilets for accessibility customers are located across the festival. They are available to all accessibility customers.

Changing places units

There are changing places units featuring an adult changing bed, toilet, sink, and hoist. Please note that hoist slings will not be available. Please remember to bring your own if you wish to make use of this facility.

Accessible entrances and queuing lanes

There are dedicated entrances and/or queuing lanes for accessibility customers to access the festival.

Sensory Calm Tent

A Sensory Calm Tent is provided at the festival. This space provides a safe, low-level stimulation and recalibration zone for any customers who need to use it.

Bars

Dedicated accessible queuing lanes are available at each main bar. This section of the bar has a lowered counter.

Contact us

If you have any queries that aren't answered on this page, our dedicated accessibility team can be contacted at accessibility@leedsfestival.co.uk

‍