Festival of the Year 2025
WOMAD
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.
UKFG Awards 2025
Winners
The UKFG Awards 2025 winners
The first UKFG Awards: the festivals that made 2025.
- Voting opens
- 4 September 2025
- Voting closes
- 10 November 2025
- Winners
- 16 January 2026
The UKFG Awards 2025 winners
- Best Small Festival FeastyFestA 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 BestivalDesigned by families, for families — Camp Bestival offers music, comedy, theatre, circus skills and creative workshops that give every age group something to love.
- Best Line-Up Reading FestivalAn 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.
- Best Sustainable Festival Shambala FestivalEnvironmental leadership in practice — Shambala runs on renewable energy, enforces a plant-based food policy, and has eliminated single-use plastics across the site.
- Best Value Festival Truck FestivalConsistently 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.