2025 UK Festival
Guides Awards
The results are in. Festival-goers across the UK cast their votes for the very best events of the year — and here are the winners.
Festival of the Year 2025
WOMAD Festival
Celebrating global culture through music, dance, art and ideas — WOMAD was the outstanding choice of our voters. Thoughtful, inclusive and truly unique, it stood apart from everything else on the calendar.
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Best Small Festival
FeastyFest
A Surrey-based boutique event featuring independent food traders, live music, workshops and family activities. FeastyFest proved that smaller can truly be better.
Best Family Festival
Camp Bestival
Designed by families, for families — Camp Bestival offers music, comedy, theatre, circus skills and creative workshops that give every age group something to love.
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Reading Festival
An ambitious and diverse bill featuring rock legends, chart-topping pop acts and breakthrough UK talent. Reading assembled the most talked-about lineup of the year.
View FestivalBest Sustainable Festival
Shambala Festival
Environmental leadership in practice — Shambala runs on renewable energy, enforces a plant-based food policy, and has eliminated single-use plastics across the site.
View FestivalBest Value Festival
Truck Festival
Consistently strong lineups at genuinely accessible prices. Truck's indie credentials, friendly atmosphere and loyal crowd make it one of the UK's best-kept secrets.
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