MARPLE CARNIVAL 2025

We are incredibly sad to announce that there will be no Marple Carnival this year

We have been informed by SMBC at the 11th hour that no part of Memorial Park will be available for us to use. Unfortunately at this late notice, and with no viable alternatives being offered, it would just not be possible to create a safe event or even process the paperwork in time. Without the park we cannot raise the money we need to put on the parade so we have no alternative but to cancel 2025.

We are as excited as everybody else about the new Hub and we know how much it will enrich our community. It is just a shame that despite us requesting information since November last year; our volunteers putting hours of work into drawing up many plans of how we could safely operate around the hub works, we were told only in the last couple of weeks that NO PERMISSION would be granted.

Our greatest regret is that this year we will not be able to help the Marple community organisations as we have for the past 60 years from the carnival proceeds (Marple Carnival 50-50 Community Fund will continue supporting local community groups throughout the year).

We will continue to try and find an alternative for 2026 so that we can ensure our long standing tradition carries on.

We wish to thank our sponsors who were ready to come on board once again this year.