Wokingham Fireworks: Sat 7 Nov, Tickets On Sale Now

The Wokingham Annual Fireworks Spectacular is on Saturday 7 November 2026 at Cantley Park, and tickets are on sale now. The organiser’s buy-tickets page reads “TICKETS FOR SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER 2026” and the home page “Tickets now available”, with booking through TryBooking rather than at the gate (Wokingham Fireworks, buy tickets page).

Bonfire night itself falls on Thursday 5 November this year, so the town’s display is two days later, on the Saturday.

Update, 3 October 2026: the 2026 price range is now public. TryBooking’s own event data gives the Wokingham Charity Fireworks Spectacular 2026 a lowest ticket price of £1 and a highest of £10, with no booking fee shown and 9,371 tickets still available on 3 October. That is the same £1 and £10 as last year. And the borough’s second display is now confirmed too: Twyford’s bonfire and fireworks is on Saturday 31 October, details below.

Cantley Park fireworks 2026 at a glance

Update, 23 September 2026: the times are confirmed. When we first wrote this page the trust’s Event Details page still carried last year’s provisional heading. It has since been republished as the 2026 Programme, and it dates itself “Saturday 7 November 2026” at the foot (Wokingham Fireworks, event details). The times below are now the trust’s own 2026 times, not an inference from last year.

The booking page also settles the postcode: TryBooking gives the venue as Cantley Park Field, Wokingham, RG40 5QG, and lists the event as running 5.30pm to 8.30pm (TryBooking). The trust’s charity target for 2026 is to raise more than £25,000 for local good causes.

The times, confirmed for 2026

These are the times on the Wokingham Fireworks Charitable Trust’s own 2026 Programme:

The procession is the part regulars turn out for. The trust describes “several thousand people with 700 flaming torches walking down Broad Street” and says plainly: “If you have never attended the procession we strongly recommend it.” Torches and children’s glow toys are sold next to the Town Hall. The trust’s own instruction is that children should not be allowed to carry torches, and it recommends leather gloves for anyone who does (event details).

Last year the procession was led by St Sebastian Wokingham Band, Wokingham MP Clive Jones, borough mayor Cllr Carol Jewell, town mayor Cllr Louise Timlin, the Mini Town Mayor, and the winner of the fireworks drawing competition, 10-year-old Ellen Gardner, who then led the countdown to the display. Around 7,500 people attended and more than 700 torches were lit (Wokingham.Today, 3 November 2025).

The drawing competition is open again. The trust is inviting primary school aged children to enter “to help lead the Torchlit Parade to Cantley Park” (Wokingham Fireworks).

Tickets: what they cost, and why you should book early

Prices are not published on the trust’s own site. The buy-tickets page is a single link straight into TryBooking, so the ladder only appears once you are in the basket. But TryBooking publishes the range in its own event data: for 2026 the cheapest ticket is £1 and the dearest £10, with ticket sales open until 7.30pm on the night itself (TryBooking). On 3 October it showed 9,371 tickets left, so there is no sign of a sell-out yet.

For 2025 the prices were £10 for adults and for children over seven, and £1 for children aged seven and under, and chair of the trust David Gold said at the time: “Despite inflation the tickets are still very reasonably priced” (Bracknell News). The same £1 under-sevens price was quoted in 2024 (Wokingham.Today, 17 September 2024), so it has held for at least two years.

That £1 to £10 range matches the 2025 ladder exactly, which points to the same split this year, though the trust has not published the age bands for 2026. Book in advance: there are no tickets on the gate.

Book through the trust’s own link, not a listings site. Wokingham Rocks heads its page “Wokingham Fireworks Spectacular 2026” and says tickets are on sale, which is now true, but the same listing gives two different postcodes for the venue, RG40 5QG and RG40 5TU (Wokingham Rocks). The booking page settles it: RG40 5QG. Both are real Wokingham postcodes in Norreys ward about 160 metres apart, so either gets a satnav to the right corner of the park, but it is a sign of how loosely these listings are kept.

Parking, and why you probably should not drive to the field

The trust is blunt about this: “Parking around Cantley Field is very limited, so we strongly suggest you park in one of the town centre car parks and enjoy the Torchlight Procession to the field.”

You will be paying, but not much. The council’s evening ticket is £1.20, and its charging order runs that rate from 6pm to 10pm, which covers the whole event. Be careful with the end of it: the order says 6pm to 10pm and the Shute End page says parking is free from 10pm to 6am if you take a ticket, while every individual car park page prints “charges apply 6pm to 6am”. The two do not agree, so take a ticket rather than assume.

Carnival multi-storey on Wellington Road is the obvious choice, at 529 spaces with 17 blue badge bays, a 2.1 metre height limit and no maximum stay. Rose Street is signed 8am to 10pm Monday to Saturday, so do not leave a car there for a late finish. Our parking in Wokingham page has every council car park, its size, its disabled bays and its charging hours.

Cantley Park sits off Twyford Road on the north side of town. If you are driving in from Twyford, Hurst or Charvil, note that the procession route through the town centre closes while it is running, as set out below.

Rules on the field

All of these are the trust’s own, from its event details page:

• No dogs. The trust says many dogs are frightened by fireworks, “may react unpredictably, so could be a danger to small children”.
• No alcohol on the field, in the interests of public safety.
• No personal fireworks or sparklers, which “would be dangerous in a crowded environment”.
• Several food vendors sell hot snacks and drinks.

The trust also asks people not to buy from unauthorised traders: every official volunteer wears a WFCT, Lions, Rotary or Unicorn tabard.

Who runs it and where the money goes

The Wokingham Fireworks Charitable Trust is registered charity 1168821, with a registered address at 11 Daubeny Close, Wokingham RG41 4EJ. It was set up to pool the resources of Wokingham Rotary Club, Easthampstead Rotary Club and Wokingham Lions Club, and it says the event has run in its current form for over ten years while “the original event started in the 1980’s“. Over the last six years it has raised more than £175,000 (about us). The 2025 event was delivered by more than 90 volunteers, and its four main beneficiaries were Soulscape, Thames Valley Air Ambulance, Samaritans of Bracknell, Wokingham, Ascot and Districts, and BIBS, Babies in Buscot Support.

Road closures: the order already exists

Do not wait for an annual notice, because there will not be one. Since 30 September 2025 the borough’s recurring events have run under a single standing order, the (Various Roads, Wokingham Borough) (Public Events Traffic Regulation) Order 2025, which replaced the 2014 version. It names each event and each road once, so no fresh order is made each year (Wokingham Borough Council, draft order, PDF).

Under the heading “Wokingham Bonfire and Fireworks Procession”, Schedule II of the order prohibits driving on four lengths of road, each of them for its entire length:

• A329 Market Place
• A329 Broad Street
• Milton Road
• A321 Milton Road

That is the procession route, from Market Place down Broad Street and out along Milton Road towards Cantley Park.

The order does not set any hours. Article 2 says the restrictions apply “during the holding of the respective occasions” and only while the statutory signs are displayed, so the closure times are decided on the night and posted on cones and boards rather than published in advance. Plan for Market Place and Broad Street to be shut around the 6.15pm procession.

Our roadworks and travel page carries anything else affecting the approaches that week.

The other two displays in the borough

Wokingham town’s is not the only one, and Twyford’s is now confirmed for 2026 too.

Twyford and District Round Table: Saturday 31 October 2026, at King George V Playing Fields on Loddon Hall Road, Twyford RG10 9JA. The Round Table’s own Ticket Tailor page has it as a Halloween night this year, with fancy dress encouraged (Twyford Round Table, Ticket Tailor):

• Gates 6.30pm, bonfire 7.30pm, fireworks 8pm, closing 10.30pm
• Advance: adults £8, youth (12 to 16) and seniors £4, under-12s £2, plus an online booking fee; advance sales close 24 hours before the event
• On the door: adults £12, youth and seniors £6, under-12s £2
• Pelham’s Funfair, a BBQ and hot food, with all money raised going to local charities

The organiser’s own example is a family of two adults and two children paying £20 in advance against £28 on the gate. Prices are up on 2025, when listings carried £7 for an advance adult ticket and £9 on the door. It is the Saturday before Wokingham’s, so the two do not clash.

Woodley and Earley Lions, at Laurel Park in Lower Earley. This one has a standing slot in the same council order, which closes Marefield, Barkby, Owston, Sibson, Sellafield Way, Egremont Drive, Allonby Close, Gosforth Close, Harrington Close, Ravenglass Close and Mawbray Close, and bans waiting on Rushey Way and Kilnsea Drive. The order being in place is not proof the display is running: the club’s own news page is headed “Previous Events” and its most recent fireworks entry is Saturday 4 November 2023. We will say plainly here if it returns.

Frequently asked questions

When are the Wokingham fireworks in 2026?

Saturday 7 November 2026 at Cantley Park, off Twyford Road, RG40 5QG. The funfair opens at 5.30pm, the torchlit procession leaves Market Place at 6.15pm and the fireworks start at 7.30pm.

How much are Wokingham fireworks tickets?

From £1 to £10 on TryBooking, the only place to buy them. In 2025 that meant £10 for adults and children over seven and £1 for children seven and under. There are no gate sales.

Can you watch the Cantley Park fireworks for free?

The procession through the town centre is free to watch from the pavement. Entry to Cantley Field for the funfair and the display is by advance ticket only.

Where do you park for the Wokingham fireworks?

In a town centre car park, the trust says, then walk with the procession. The council’s evening rate is £1.20 from 6pm. Parking around Cantley Field is very limited.

Are there other fireworks displays near Wokingham in 2026?

Yes. Twyford Round Table’s Halloween bonfire and fireworks is on Saturday 31 October at King George V Playing Fields, RG10 9JA, fireworks at 8pm. Nothing is published for the Woodley and Earley Lions display at Laurel Park.

What we will update, and when

The running order, the 2026 price range and Twyford’s date are all now confirmed. Still open are the 2026 age bands behind the £1 and £10 tickets, and whether the Lower Earley display returns. We will check and update this page.

If you want the wider picture of the town’s festive season, the Wokingham Winter Carnival is three weeks after the fireworks, on Sunday 29 November, and it is when the Christmas lights go on.