Residents can nominate Exmouth Festival for the UK Festival Awards for 2024.

Exmouth Festival has been nominated for the award in the small, family and metropolitan, it's now up to residents to nominate the festival to make sure they win.

This award goes to the most promising new festival that launched after September 2023. Voting is open until October 18.

Nominees are asked a series of questions, best micro-festival, best large festival, best medium festival and best small festival.

A spokesman for Exmouth Festival said: "We've been shortlisted in the UK Festival Awards. Please take a minute to vote for us - we’re nominated in the in SMALL, FAMILY and METROPOLITAN categories.

"There are a lot of nominees, so we need your vote. Get all your friends and family to vote too. You could win a £100 voucher - see voting site for details

"The UK Festival Awards opened entries for UK Festivals were held between September 10 2023 and September 10 2024.

"Public voting for the UK Festival Awards 2024 began in  late September 24 and close a month later. Entries open: Mid August and closed on September 18."

A link to the survey is here - Exmouth Festival nominated for UK Festival Awards. Once you've voted, you will be directed to our UK Festival Census Survey. Complete that and you can enter a draw for a chance to win a £100 Amazon Voucher.

To determine the shortlist for these awards, fans vote online for their favourite festival, votes are then weighted according to audience size.

• The UK Greener Festival Award
The Greener Festival Award is judged based upon detailed site assessments and analysis from A Greener Festival.

Awards decided by a festival industry panel. For these more specialised categories, a specialized panel assemble 20 industry judges who read and pre-score all entry forms, considering any supporting materials submitted.

Judges give a score for each award application, which is then combined to give an overall score for each entry. All judges’ pre-scores will then be combined and the highest scoring entries to determine the shortlists.

Panel judges then collectively determine the winner, which will be announced at the UK Festival Awards on the evening of December 3.