About Us

Frontier Fireworks Ltd commenced trading back in 1996 as a new venture created through Chris Verheyden and Helen Stenlake.

Before the formation of the company, over twelve months of extensive research was conducted. Many events and venues were visited and numerous displays, performed by existing fireworks companies, were watched and assessed. The result of this was the realisation that many displays looked the same and lacked creativity. Frontier Fireworks was created to produce cutting edge displays that provided exciting and spectacular designs.

Frontier Fireworks provides displays that offer outstanding value for money whilst maintaining extremely creative designs with the use of high quality fireworks. Frontier Fireworks has competed twice in the National Fireworks Championship Finals and has been placed third and awarded the runners-up position, which has seen the company firmly established as the best fireworks display company in the south east of England.

Frontier Fireworks perform frequent displays at a range of venues including castles, stately homes, town centres, piers, harbours, rooftops, schools, churches, military barracks, sports clubs and hotels amongst others.

The company has been going from strength to strength, continually building for the future. Every year new innovative designs are developed and incorporated into displays, ensuring that the displays never lack creativity.

Director Profiles

Chris Verheyden – Artistic Director

As a founder of the company, Chris Verheyden has been able to deliver cutting edge displays throughout his career at Frontier Fireworks by constantly developing the way the company conveys high impact displays. This has been recognised throughout Europe for fireworks display design and as far afield as China for the development and manufacture of new fireworks designs.

Chris came into the fireworks industry from a successful sporting career, providing the UK fireworks industry with a unique designer of fireworks displays. Unlike most fireworks companies, Chris has not broken away from an existing company to start a separate venture. Everything designed by Chris is a product of his own experience and imagination and not a reinvention of old ideas.

Chris has been able to maintain a competitive feel throughout the company to deliver the best displays at the right price. Having focused his attention on the ability of the company to deliver a first class fireworks display service, he also ensures that all clients are looked after caringly both during the preparation phase and after the display.

This has resulted in Frontier Fireworks being much sought after by organisers. The displays that Chris designs have been shown as widely as American and German Sky TV, not to mention the host of coverage that has been on national radio and television stations.

The company would not have achieved such high accolades without the drive and determination to succeed at every turn that Chris has shown throughout his years at the company.

A recent collaboration has begun with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra whereby both Elsa (Concert Manager) and Chris work closely together to ensure that the fireworks part of each concert has dramatic impact and perfect timing for every display. Working with the best organisations in each field has become part of the company’s history as well as it’s exciting future.

Helen Stenlake – Display Director

Helen Stenlake has been with the company since it’s inception in 1996 and is widely recognised as one of the best female display designers in Europe. This is testament to Helen’s ability to design displays in what is a very male dominated industry. She has also been at the forefront of handling “live” publicity at events such as interviews for BBC television.

Helen has been able to develop display designs through an understanding of how fireworks can complement natural environments at venues. She has a firm understanding of how colours can be combined to complement each other and this has led to the introduction of new, vivid colours that are rarely seen such as aqua, turquoise, lemon and pink.

Helen has a great capacity to listen to organisers and to understand their needs. This interaction with clients, combined with her ability to calmly solve problems has led to a high level of confidence between clients and Frontier Fireworks.  This has given much reassurance to organisers of events that require trust and understanding about their requirements.

Dealing with the large logistical programme of displays over our busy periods is grasped by Helen with both hands. Booking employees and ensuring that the correct equipment and fireworks arrive at the correct destinations, to ensure that every event is a success, is down to the determination to succeed at the highest level.