Welcome to the Marple Carnival Web Site
Amazing first year for Carnival Community Fund
A year of success for Marple Carnival 50-50 Club!
Saturday 21st June should have been Marple Carnival Day but unfortunately not this year, in 2025, due to the new Community Hub that is being built in Memorial Park. Apart from the Carnival being a great fun day for everybody, the money collected during the Carnival Parade is always used to support local community groups - funds that would have been sorely missed by many of them this year.
Thankfully however, in July 2024 we launched the Marple Carnival 50-50 Community Fund. Over the last 12 months this has enabled us to continue supporting many local groups with monthly donations. On what would have been Carnival Day 2025 we were delighted to round off the first year by donating £180 to New Horizons to help 'keep them afloat' from the 50-50 Club Fund.
Presentation to New Horizons by Marple Carnival Community Fund on 21 June 2025
Other groups that have benefitted since last July are: Mellor Country House, Friends of Etherow Park, Dragon Miniature Railway, The Garden House, Friends of Chadkirk Chapel, Marple Dementia Drop In, Art Stop CIC, Autisk, Compstall Cricket Club, Marple Men in Sheds and Marple Bridge Association. The total donated in the year is a fantastic £1955! See below for more details.
Being a member of the 50-50 club gives you the chance to win some money in our monthly draw as well as helping to support many local groups with much needed funds. Please visit our 50-50 Club Page for information about how it works and how to sign up.
Marple Carnival 50-50 Community Fund
Cash prizes and Community Awards every month!
June 2025 Winners - coming soon!
Prizes totalling £175 were won in the latest 50 50 club prize draw.
A Community Fund Award of £175 was made to Marple Bridge Association in June!
Join before the end of the month for your chance to be one of the next winners while supporting your local community!
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.
