Illuminate the Gardens lights up Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Illuminate the Gardens is Sheffield's finest Bonfire night event, showcasing the very best fireworks and family entertainment. Events Collective, ITG's organisers wanted us to provide a ticketing solution to help sell tickets online for their extremely popular event, Illuminate the Gardens. It was vital that the platform delivered multiple tickets and enabled entry scanning, our event ticketing software was able to provide this and more!

This year’s event was a huge success, held in Sheffield Botanical Gardens, running from Friday 2nd until Sunday 4th November with the event selling out on all three dates.

(Photo credit- Ben Harrison)

The lowdown on the event 

Illuminate the Gardens is a unique lighting and fireworks event, with a huge array of activities, street food, a bar, and even vintage fairground rides! This year boasted a range of activities suited to all ages. Guests could let their musical side run wild in the Sound Sculpture Garden, with giant percussion and colourful, recycled instruments.

There were plenty of activities to keep little ones amused, like Bear’s deep sea adventure, a glowing UV seascape where kids could create their very own deep sea creatures. Families could enjoy apple chopping and juicing and try some delicious, fresh mulled apple juice. 

(Photo credit - Jordanna Farrimond)

Fabulous food and drink

If attendees got hungry, they were spoiled for choice with a massive selection of the very best street food that Sheffield has to offer. Illuminate the Gardens provided everything from Italian street food and fresh handmade pizza from Proove Pizza, to BBQ pulled pork butties and smoked hot dogs from Smoke BBQ and Poutine’s smothered in gravy from The Gravy Train. Guests could then wash it all down at the Illuminate Bar, offering award winnings beers, or at the Beetlejuice cocktail bus with a freshly shaken cocktail. There was a huge selection to ensure that every guest could grab their favourite drink.

(Photo credit - Proove Pizza)

Something for everyone

A huge selling point for this event was that they offered a ‘low noise’ fireworks show, perfect for children and guests with special requirements, making the event accessible to all.

(Photo credit - Ben Harrison)