Here’s a handy guide for what you are allowed to bring to Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival is taking place this week with performances from the likes of Chappell Roan and Limp Bizkit(Image: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)
Leeds Festival 2025 is kicking off later this week with headliners Chappell Roan, Travis Scott, Hozier and Bring Me The Horizon.
The festival, which is partnered with Reading Festival, opens to early-bird campers on Wednesday, August 20, with the music spread across Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Last year headliners included Lana Del Rey, Liam Gallagher, and Blink 182. In addition to the headliners mentioned above, this year will see performances from the likes of Limp Bizkit, The Kooks, Rudimental, Becky Hill and Leigh-Anne, among other big names.
Luckily for those attending the UK festival, the Met Office forecast shows that it is set to be dry all week, with some periods of sunshine interspersed with clouds. This is in contrast with last year when Storm Lillian hit the festival causing closed stages and cancelled acts.
For the safety of everyone attending the festival at Bramham Park, Leeds, there are some items that are banned from being brought into the venue.
Banned items include animals, blow torches, and fireworks among more items. There will be no receipts issued for any confiscated/surrendered items and they will not be available to collect after the festival.
On the Leeds Festival website, they have stated: “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!”
Limp Bizkit is among the performers at Leeds Festival 2025(Image: Getty Images)
The festival organisers have also warned that campfires and disposable BBQs are banned from both the campsite and the arena in 2025.
Here we have put together a full list of banned items, plus the things that are allowed into the campsite but not the arena.
Banned items
These items are banned across the whole festival site:
- Aerosols over 250ml
- Air Horns / Megaphones
- Animals (other than 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
Certain items are banned from Leeds Festival 2025 to ensure the safety of all attendees(Image: PA)
- Clothing/Garments/Items which promote Cultural Appropriation
- Disposable BBQs
- Non-Disposable BBQs
- Dogs (other than 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 / COâ‚‚ dispensers)
- Penknife
- Perfume and make up (over 100ml)
- Petrol Burner
- Portable laser equipment and pens
- Skateboards, rollerblades, hover-boards, scooters, bicycles, and other personal motorized and non-motorized 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
These following items are allowed in the campsite, but not in 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 (inc. Golf Umbrellas)