As Bay of Plenty skies crack, wiz and pop with a variety of colourfully lit fireworks come Guy Fawkes, one Tauranga charity is hoping their firework sales will change Kiwi children's lives for the better.

Tauranga Variety basher Morris Danks picks up his supply of Pyro Company fireworks ahead of sales beginning on Sunday. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

For the second year running Tauranga's Variety Bash is teaming up with the Pyro Company to bring the November 5 excitement to children and families alongside generating funds for the charity.

Tauranga Variety basher Morris Danks says it is great to be able to team up with the Auckland-based company ensuring all funds make a difference by going straight back into the community.

'It's a really simple idea; we don't want people that don't normally buy fireworks to come buy them off us. It's more to come and look at some of the local teams before going to the big corporates.

'Between the two local Tauranga teams [in 2013] we were pushing about $7000 donated.”

The Variety Bash tries to help level the playing field for disadvantaged Kiwi children with about 260,000 children growing up in poverty

Every year the charity helps more than 10,000 children meet their unmet health and education needs.

The history of Guy Fawkes dates back to 1605 when a group of men, including a man named Guy Fawkes, attempted to blow up the British House of Parliament.

On the night of the event was stopped, and bonfires were lit across the streets of England to celebrate the safety of the King.

Each November 5 Kiwis, like the English, celebrate the event by attending large fireworks displays at schools, parks and stadiums, or by getting together with family and friends at home.

Morris says already 10 per cent of the groups stock have been snapped up in pre-order sales and the two Tauranga teams will be setting up pop up stores around the city from November 2-5.

Among the products on offer are ‘Solar Flares', ‘Mighty Cannons', ‘Sonic Booms' and ‘Octoblasts'.

'It's great to see that money go back into the community and towards Kiwi kids.”

Also marking the start of firework sales on Sunday is Video Ezy Greerton, opening its doors in the early hours of the morning.

From 12.01am to 1am the video store will be open for people to be the first to get their hands on Pyro Company Fireworks.

In New Zealand there are a number of rules regulating the sale and use of fireworks – put in place in 2006 following a high number of firework related incidents.

Today no one under 18 can purchase fireworks, fireworks can only be sold for four days from November 2-5, and the decibel level a firework can produce is to be no more than 90 decibels.