Newby Hall

  • 23rd August 2025
  • Ripon, Yorkshire

What Happens On The Day

Right here at Newby Hall – 4 great firework displays! Three of the UK’s best firework companies compete against each other with a 10-minute spectacular firework display choreographed to music followed by a breath-taking, huge finale display. The types of fireworks being used by the companies are unlike any material used for fireworks available to the general public, each company uses category 4 fireworks, which are only for professional use and the biggest available in the UK.

After gazing at the illuminating fireworks and lasers, watching all the teams battle for the Fireworks Champions title, the audience has all the power in their hands (through their mobile phone) to decide the winner. How exciting! Texts will be charged at normal rates and a limit of 1 vote per number is in place. Each voting number receives a text back with the results.

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Key features

  • Icon of a burger with a strawed drink, representing a fast food meal, lit up like a firework in the night sky.

    Food & Drink

  • Icon of a director's chair in white outline on a transparent background, resembling the burst of a firework.

    Picnic Space

  • A simple white outline drawing of an RV or motorhome, enhanced with a subtle firework design, shows two windows and six wheels.

    Disabled Access

  • Outline of a guitar, a microphone on a stand, and a small box on a platform, suggesting a musical performance setup with the anticipation of fireworks in the background.

    Pre-Show Entertainment

  • Outline of a trophy cup with two handles, a rectangular base, and the burst of a firework etched above it.

    4 Firework Displays

  • Outlined drawing of a teddy bear with a heart on its chest, smiling and standing upright, surrounded by the burst of a firework.

    Children’s Entertainment

Event Timings

23rd August 2025

Newby Hall

Camping Gates Open – 1:00 PM SAT

Event Gates Open – 4:00 PM

Gates Close (FINAL ENTRY) 7:30PM

Drone Show –
8:45 PM


Display Team 1, 2 & 3 BATTLE IT OUT –
9:00 PM


VOTE FOR YOUR WINNER! –
10:00 PM


Closing Display –
10:10 PM


Winner Announced –
10:25 PM


Event Finish –
10:30 PM


* Timings subject to change, please arrive early.

Newby Hall 2025 TEAMS

TEAM 1
celestial fireworks


Bold text reads "Celestial Firework Displays" on a white background.

We introduce our first team to fire at Newby Hall Firework Champions 2025, Celestial Fireworks!

TEAM 2
the fireworkers


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The Fireworkers are delighted to be asked to perform at Firework Champions again in 2024, we are a family business established over 15 years ago by Steve and Sally Bates, working alongside our dedicated crew, we are a true firework family, our three sons have grown up with our business and all now work at The Fireworkers in varying roles. We thank MLE for asking us to return and compete again in 2024.

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For our show we have hand picked some of the very best Fireworks available, including lots of our favourites! We have selected a special music choice which will be recognisable to a lot of the audience, especially those who follow the Proms!

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At The Fireworkers, we all work together to support each other and the team, it will be Sally & Steve who will be designing the show putting their passion for design and show production into the display at firework champions. We competed last year at Belvoir Castle, and the whole team thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere, camaraderie and friendliness of the whole weekend, we were really pleased with our performance. For this year, we will be hoping to build on our experience and produce a quality, enjoyable show, using dynamic effects and powerful music, we will be working hard to win your vote!

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Over the years we have performed thousands of displays, both nationally and internationally, we specialise in start up displays, and work alongside our clients to ensure a successful and profitable event. Our company is constantly evolving, we now facilitate public displays ourselves as well as always delivering a great display for our customers . Over the years we have competed at the British Musical Firework Championships, Firework Champions, assisted with displays overseas and delivered displays for high profile customers such as MKM and the Rod Stewart tour.

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We are all very excited to perform our Firework Champions show for the crowd at Arley Hall, we will very much enjoy our time setting up and executing our display, we wish every team the very best of luck and look forward to seeing you all there. We know that all the teams at Firework Champions will provide a fantastic evening of entertainment for you , we are very much looking forward to it and we hope that you all enjoy the shows!

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TEAM 3
twilight fireworks

Twilight Fireworks" text with surrounding red and orange burst design.

We introduce our third team to fire at Newby Hall Firework Champions 2025, Twilight Fireworks!

Closing Display
imperial lotus se

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Imperial Lotus Southeast is a company based in South of England with 20+ years of expertise, backed with history as well as Winners of the 2023 British Musical Fireworks Championships in Southport and will be competing in the Champion of Champions 2025. We believe in delivering exceptional service and a personalised experience for whatever your client's occasion may be.

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Imperial Lotus Southeast have not only exhibited their pyrotechnic art across the whole of the UK but Internationally they have been fundamental in display delivery in Malta, Italy, France and Spain. We have also visited factories in Japan and China which has helped us import our own products.

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Past clients for whom we have organised displays include:
Reading & Leeds Festival,
Celebrity Big Brother,
Highclere Castle,
Lulworth Castle,
Sony,
Samsung,
The Bank of England,
Thorpe Park’s Fright Night,
Swindon Speedway (World Championship).

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We have spent many hours designing our display tonight using MLE's designer software and it will be fired using their Fire By Wire system. We have chosen some of the best Fireworks currently available here in the UK from Spain, Italy and of course China.

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Our displays are backed up with the latest hardware and software on the market and top of the range firing systems such as FireOne. This gives us an opportunity to show off our creativity but, more importantly, provides us with the reliability that is absolutely crucial in this industry.
This will be the first time Imperial Lotus has competed in Fireworks Champions and our crew are really looking forward to it. We will go out and have fun, put on a great show for the audience and show what we can do. We have a wide range of products from around the world, Italian, Spanish, Chinese to name a few.
We hope for good weather and friendly competition on the day.

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A nighttime festival scene in a countryside setting, with illuminated tents and a crowd, trees, hills in the background, and fireworks lighting up the sky.

How To Get There



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Drive

Newby Hall is just off the B6265 between Ripon and Boroughbridge, a few miles from the A1(M). From the north use J48, from the south use J48 and follow the brown tourist signs to our entrance gates in the village of Skelton on Ure.
If you are following Sat Nav please type in postcode HG4 5AJ, which is different to the postcode in our address.





Take A Look At Last Year’s Event

Last year’s event was an amazing show! After gazing at the illuminating fireworks and lasers, watching all the teams battle for the Fireworks Champions title, the audience has all the power in their hands (through their mobile phone) to decide the winner. How exciting! Texts will be charged at normal rates and a limit of 1 vote per number is in place. Each voting number receives a text back with the results.

Watch A Previous Event

The event is the only one of its type in the UK where the audience have the capability to vote for the team they liked the most using their mobile phone – purely for fun. Texts will be charged at normal rates and a limit of 1 vote per number is in place. Each voting number receives a text back with the results.