Child Ticket (5-15 years)| 1st November 2025

Date: Saturday 1st November 2025

Location: Central Park, Dartford, Kent, DA1

Gates & Funfair: Open 5pm

Bonfire: 7.15pm

Fireworks: 8pm

Parking:

There will be no parking in Cranford Road or Ingram Road on the night of the event, enforcement officers will be in attendance.

Parking will be available in the Acacia Hall car park and access via the Millennium bridge entrance (For one night only this car park shall close at 10.30 pm). This is a public car park which is ‘pay and display’.

Pets:

No pets are allowed onto site.

• Battersea Dogs Home is providing information to help pet owners during fireworks, here is the link to their site, click here.
• The RSPCA have also been in touch with us offering support for our residents on how to become a Firework Friendly Neighbour for Animals. Please click here to read the RSPCA
  information.

The Bonfire and Fireworks event hosted by Dartford Lions Clubs is a ALCOHOL FREE area. We will not allow allow any alcohol to be brought into the premises and neither will we be selling any alcohol to be sold onsite. Random bag checks will be carried out. If people are found to be having alcohol onsite, they will be asked to leave.

Fireworks or sparklers are not allowed onto the site.

They will be removed and destroyed.

Internationally Lions and Leos are working to protect the environment to create healthier
communities and a more sustainable world. The Environment is one of the five key
programmes in Lionism.
The timber used for our annual bonfire is locally sourced none-chemically treated. It is
acknowledged that although burning timber releases the CO2 within the timber, it does not create the additional methane gas that would be released if the timber was left to decay. 
Waste from the bonfire is commercially disposed of.
The canisters used for the fireworks are made of carboard. The CO2 output from the display is the equivalent to a single car travelling around 88 miles.
To offset the CO2 produced by the event, the Lions are working with schools and local
groups to plant trees and introduce meadow flowers which are seen as a better source of
capturing CO2. We are this year replacing our generators that are used for lighting with
electrically stored power packs. We are also encouraging members of the public attending the event to consider using public transport or as many do, walk to the event.

• Dartford Lions reserves the right to refuse entry add/or evict any person or group of persons from the Fireworks Event or Central Park, and the Lion’s decision will be final.
• Dartford Lions will not be held responsible for any loss, injury or damage suffered by any person at the Firework Event where such loss, injury or damage was occasioned by conduct on the part of that person or by failure to take proper and reasonable care whether on the part of the person who suffered loss, injury or damage, or such other person responsible for that person.
• It is a condition of entry that you submit to any reasonable search request. Any items which
  we consider may be used in an illegal or offensive manner will be confiscated and entry denied to the Fireworks Event.
• Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and/or offensive activities on site will be removed.
• There is a ‘zero tolerance’ for illegal substances and New Psychoactive Substances (often incorrectly called ‘Legal Highs’) at the Firework Event. Any person in possession of such substances will be denied entry and/or removed from the Fireworks Event site, and the Police will be called to attend.
• The following items are not permitted on site: alcohol; portable laser equipment;
  unauthorised professional film or video equipment; professional audio recording
  equipment; portable barbecues; air horns; spray cans; fireworks, sparklers or flares; sky lanterns or anything we consider unsuitable at the event.
• The use of drones/UAV is strictly prohibited.
• Cycles; e-scooters or skateboards may not be ridden on site between 17:00 – 23:00.
• The distribution of literature e.g. flyers/leaflets without the consent of Dartford Lions is strictly prohibited and the Lion’s reserves the right to confiscate the literature.