Alnwick Garden Winter Light Trail 2025
Axiom Events has returned once more to the beautiful Alnwick Garden for The Winter Light Trail 2025
Location Alnwick Client Alnwick Garden
Axiom Events has returned once more to the beautiful Alnwick Garden, providing a design package, installation and ongoing technical support for the destination's annual Winter Light Trail, across the winter season. This year marked the 10th year that members of our core team have been involved in the trail, reflecting the fantastic relationship we’ve developed with the Garden team. Redesigned as an all new experience, the event takes the form of an immersive light-and-sound trail, including bespoke projection maps illuminating existing and temporary features within the popular attraction.
Projects Manager Andy Jennings has worked with collaborators Iris Digital, alongside Directors Robbie Baxter and Pete Shorten, to expand the project each year – with visitor numbers growing year on year in conjunction with increased national press attention for the venue. Axiom Events provide a dedicated team to deliver across a busy build schedule, as well as on site technical assistance throughout the show run to support the Garden’s internal team in delivery for the public. As always, the changeable Northumbrian weather presented its yearly challenges. Though through a determined construction phase our team completed the build “safely and on schedule”, despite the conditions. The end result was a collection of resilient, high quality outdoor installations, subtly linked together with an expressive variety of aesthetic route lighting.
The Winter Light trail welcomed guests with an array of custom hand built installations – this year including our custom LED walkway, pixel sequence flower beds, LED ivy tunnels and a unique mirror tiled snowflake. Epic custom projected lettering and uplighters illuminated the lake bringing the night to life.
Axiom Events have been an outstanding creative partner in the production and delivery of The Alnwick Garden’s Light Trail. We have every confidence in Axiom’s ability to deliver successful, high quality experiences and would wholeheartedly recommend them.
“Axiom Events have been an outstanding creative partner in the production and delivery of The Alnwick Garden’s Light Trail. Their team are exceptionally creative and consistently look to incorporate the very latest technologies, ensuring the trail feels fresh, innovative and engaging year after year.
What truly sets Axiom apart is their collaborative approach. They take the time to listen to us and genuinely understand what we feel our visitors want to see and experience. This has resulted in more interactive installations than ever before, significantly enhancing visitor engagement and enjoyment.
The working relationship between Axiom and The Alnwick Garden team has been excellent throughout. The Axiom team fully live and breathe the values of The Alnwick Garden, working alongside us and demonstrating a real commitment to quality, creativity and visitor experience.
The results speak for themselves. Our Light Trail has achieved double-digit annual visitor growth for the past five years, and we continue to receive rave reviews from visitors, both this year and in previous seasons. We have every confidence in Axiom’s ability to deliver successful, high quality experiences and would wholeheartedly recommend them.” – Mark Brassell, CEO, Alnwick Garden
Reviews of the 2025 Winter Light Trail have shown that the event has exceeded public expectations as it continues to broaden the event’s reach and reinforce community connection. The robust technical setup and experienced core team ensured a seamless production delivery. The 2025 season has once again strengthened relationships between Axiom, the Alnwick Garden team, local stakeholders, and partners – enhancing the event’s appeal to all ages across a wide audience spectrum.