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Stapleford community groups and venues

To add your Stapleford group or to amend a listing, email davidm1961@gmail.com. The page was last refreshed in August 2025.

Stapleford clubs & groups

Stapleford Allotments admin                                Carter Jonas

Camsight, Stapleford                                    https://www.facebook.com/camsight.org.uk/videos/stapleford/927818498137786/

Stapleford Choral Society                            staplefordchoral@gmail.com    http://www.staplefordchoral.org.uk/

Stapleford Community Warden Scheme  07436 102733   juliet.hawksworth@ageukcap.org.uk.

Stapleford Handbell Ringers  Jill Butler 01223 844133

Stapleford History Society     http://historysociety.staplefordvillage.org.uk/                   historysociety@staplefordcambs.org.uk    

Magog Singers, Stapleford     kathleenforeman047@gmail.com     01223 842486

Magog Trust   admin@magogtrust.org.uk 07774 084595 The Magog Trust

Stapleford Messenger village magazine  staplefordmessenger@gmail.com 

Mothers' Union, Stapleford  hilarystreet@hotmail.com or 01223 840548

Umbrella Big Band                     https://umbrellabigband.co.uk/contact/                          contact@umbrellabigband.co.uk​

Stapleford WI Secretary Christine Wylde, 01777533277 https://staplefordwi.weebly.com/

Shelford & Stapleford Youth Initiative  https://www.ssyi.club/   zac.britton@ssyi.club  07599024210

Stapleford venues

Cox's Close Community Room

Memorial Hall, Great Shelford  office@greatshelfordparishcouncil.gov.uk

Sports Pavilion, Great Shelford  clerk@greatshelfordparishcouncil.gov.uk

Stapleford sports groups

Stapleford Cricket Club Captain Gareth Everson 07766 378800 garethpeverson@hotmail.com

 

Stapleford Phoenix Secretary Jon West 07957 453386 staplefordphoenix@gmail.com

Shelford & Stapleford Strikers youth football teams   https://www.sass-fc.com/

Stapleford Fun Run                https://staplefordrun.com/

Stapleford campaign groups

Better Ways For Buses  https://www.bw4b.org/

Stapleford schools and education

St Andrew's Church, Stapleford

Recycling in Stapleford

​​Refuse Collection

Refuse collection from black wheeled bins on alternate Tuesday mornings by South Cambridgeshire District Council.

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Kerbside Recycling

Blue and green bins are collected on alternate Tuesdays. (green bins monthly during the winter)

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Glass Bottles

There are bottle banks in the car park of The Rose public house on London Road.

Milk-bottle Tops, together with ring-pulls from cans and any other aluminium are welcomed by Jill Butler at 1A, Mingle Lane, Great Shelford (in aid of the Magog Trust).

Used postage stamps of all countries are welcome at Stapleford Church (in aid of the Church of England Children Society).

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Household Waste Recycling Centre for household and garden refuse off the A505 at Thriplow.

Stapleford charities

Royal British Legion: The Shelfords & Stapleford Branch

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Provides support for ex-servicemen and women and their families.
Hon. Secretary: Mrs. Gillian Farrar, 37 Hawthorne Road, Stapleford Tel: 840947
Poppy Appeal: Local hon. organiser: Mrs. Gay Dean, 42 Bury Road, Stapleford Tel: 844010.

Stapleford war memorial roll of honour

Stapleford Village Hall Fund

In 1908 Dr. Collier built a Village Hall and Reading Room on his land next to the school in Bar Lane. This building became known as the Village Institute. When a local branch of the W.I. was formed in 1920 it was administered by a joint committee of the men and women who used the Institute. In 1921 money was raised locally to extend the building. In December 1922 William Collier gave the building to Trustees, who in 1965 sold it to the County Council. It was then used as a centre for the promotion of excellence in mathematics teaching. The building became unsafe and was finally demolished at the end of 1992. The site is now a memorial garden to a former headteacher, Harold Holt. The proceeds of the sale to the County Council, £3000, were invested and the interest is held for the general benefit of the inhabitants of the parish. Annual income: about £600. Grants are made to village organisations, rather than to individuals.
Correspondent: Mr. Colin White, 15 Hawthorne Road, Stapleford Tel. 01223 525948

 Stapleford Feoffee Charity

This Charity has existed since before 1619 and was formerly known as the Church, Poor and Task Lands. William Lee, Vicar of Stapleford, who died in 1617, gave his house and land, half for the church and half for “the godly, honest and diligent poor, but not idlers, drunkards and hedge breakers”.

In 1885 its assets consisted of two cottages, 12/14 Church Street and 15.5 acres of agricultural land off Haverhill Road, allotted to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor by the Inclosure Award of 1814. Due to poor return on investment, the cottages were sold in 1985 and the proceeds invested. The income of the Charity derives from these investments and rent from the agricultural tenancy.

In 1986 the scheme was revised to bring it more up to date and in line with present day needs. In 2004 the Charity of Lettice Martin, Stapleford War Memorial Convalescent Fund Charity and the Clerk’s Piece Charity were combined with the Feoffee Charity.

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The Charity is administered by nine Trustees:

  • three ex-officio: the Vicar and Churchwardens

  • two nominated by Stapleford Parish Council each serving for four years

  • four co-opted by the Feoffees each serving for five years.

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Gillian Pett is Chair of Trustees. All trustees are eligible for re-appointment.

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The Trustees meet from time to time to distribute the income and to confirm any disbursements made in emergencies.

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After expenses of management have been defrayed, the income of Charity is distributed as follows:

  • 2/5ths to persons resident in the Parish of Stapleford who are in need, hardship or distress by making grants of money or paying for items, services or facilities calculated to reduce these conditions.

  • 3/5ths to the Parochial Church Council for the maintenance of the Church and services therein and for furthering the religious and charitable work of the Parish.

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In recent years, assistance has been given to individuals to meet such things as:

  • help for those undertaking further education

  • the cost of nursery or playgroup places

  • school trips, books etc and

  • aids for the disabled.

  • assistance with trips for undertaking voluntary work

  • helpline telephones for the housebound.

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Donations are made at Christmas time to a number of local people. The terms of the scheme have the following clauses which determine how Trustees can administer the 2/5th income allocation.

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  • The Trustees are not permitted to apply any part of the funds in relief of rates, taxes or other public funds but may apply income in supplementing relief or assistance provided out of public funds.

  • The Trustees shall not commit themselves to repeat or renew the relief granted to any one cause or person.

  • The Trustees may pay for such items, services or facilities by way of donations or subscriptions to institutions or organizations which provide or undertake in return to provide such items.

  • In exceptional cases the Trustees, may grant relief to persons who are resident immediately outside the Parish but, in the opinion of the Trustees and with sufficient reason, ought to be regarded as resident.

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https://www.standrewstapleford.org/Groups/313039/Stapleford_Feoffees.aspx

Applications for a grant from the Charity should be made to Simon Taylor on simontaylorstandrews@gmail.com or 01223 840256.

Collier Recreation Ground Charity

The Collier Recreation Ground, which has always had an area of 2420 square yards (2023 square metres), was re-sited in 1958 and again in 1973 to permit expansion of the Community School site. It now lies between the Chestnuts and the end of Vine Close. An inscription on a plaque in the old Institute referred to this gift as follows:

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"The playground behind this Institute was given for the use of the children of Stapleford by Dr. W Collier of Oxford in March 1930 in memory of his son Lieutenant Martin Huntly Collier, RN, captain of submarine H10 who, with officers and crew, was killed in the Great War 1918."

Public stone, chalk, gravel and clay pit.

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Two pits were set out for public use by the inclosure award of 1814, but one of them, lying on what is now Bury Farm, was lost more than a hundred years ago. The other, approached by a track from Haverhill Road, is now a registered charity, administered by the Parish Council. The correspondent is the Clerk to the Parish Council.

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Lettice Martin charity

The charity was created in 1562 by Lettice Martin, a widow, of Chrishall, Essex, for the benefit of the poor inhabitants of Chrishall and various other parishes in Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, including Stapleford. The income comes from a house and land in Chrishall and Heydon. Annual income: £1.

The Clerk’s Piece

The charity used to provide a house for the Parish Clerk, who served the Vestry in governing the parish before a Parish Council was formed. Annual income is less than £10.
The Correspondent is the Vicar of Stapleford.

Stapleford War Memorial Convalescent Fund

£85 was collected for the convalescent treatment of sick and poor villagers. Annual income is less than £2.
The Correspondent is the Vicar of Stapleford.

 

Association for Cultural Exchange (ACE)

A non-profit educational trust, founded in 1958 by the late Philip Barnes. The Arts Centre called Stapleford Granary at Bury Farm, Stapleford CB22 5BP.  Visit the ACE Foundation website www. acefoundation.org.uk

Stapleford green spaces

 

Stapleford Recreation Ground

 

The recreation ground, which includes the Jubillee Pavilion, is located on Haverhill Road.

 

 

Parish Pit

 

A consultation of Stapleford residents in Spring 2021 found overwhelming support amongst respondents to Stapleford Parish Council’s proposals to transfer ownership of Stapleford Parish Pit to Magog Trust.

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The Parish Pit is a miniature nature reserve. It was formed by the extraction of ‘clunch’ used, in the past, as a building material in local houses and even the Cambridge Colleges.


The pit is a site of significance in the wider landscape as it is one of many former chalk quarries in villages across the county, that are now a network of chalk grassland fragments. Closer to home are the Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits nature reserve, Roman Road SSSI, Magog Down, Wandlebury Country Park and Fleam Dyke SSSI. Together these grassland sites form a series of stepping stones to enable species to move freely across the landscape. As climate change has an effect on our wildlife, these pathways are becoming ever more important to maintaining robust wild populations.

Around 70 wildflower species have been recorded since 2015 which falls short of previous totals, records starting in 1992. 


To gain the status of “rich flora of chalk grassland” requires the site to have ‘frequent numbers of six or more strong calcareous grassland indicator species.’ The pit has four strong calcareous indicator species, Common Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), Common Restharrow (Knautia arvensis), Field Scabious (Ononis repens) and Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare) and a number of others that are present but not in high enough frequency.

 

The Magog Trust

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The Magog Down is an area for restoration, conservation and informal recreation on the Gog Magog Hills just south of the boundary of the City of Cambridge, off the A1307 road to Linton and on Haverhill Road, Stapleford.

Magog Down is privately owned and managed by the Magog Trust who bought it in 1989. It covers 163.5 acres of previously intensively farmed arable land. It is freely open to all, all year round. The Magog Trust

 

Wandlebury Country Park

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Wandlebury Country Park offers more than eight miles of wonderful walks through mature woods, meadows and chalk grassland areas. There is always something to do at Wandlebury. Stroll round the park at a leisurely pace, taking in the circular historic Iron Age Hillfort – a Scheduled Ancient Monument steeped in myth and legend.

Pop along for a picnic and wonder at the beauty of the place with its diverse flora and fauna and its noble highland cattle. Take part in events and activities aimed at people of all ages. Visit Wandlebury and you’ll understand why the site was given a prestigious Green Flag Award – recognising it as one of the best green spaces to visit in the country.

Wandlebury, an ancient monument, is an Iron-Age hill fort, originally built with a steep-sided ditch in the third century B.C. and rebuilt with a double bank in the first century A.D. Evidence was found in excavations in 1995-6 of settlement in the area even before the fort was first built. The earthworks were extensively landscaped as an ornamental feature in the 18th Century by Lord Godolphin, as they lay in the park surrounding the house and stables which he began to build in 1729. The family inherited the Dukedom of Leeds in 1859.

In 1895 they sold the Wandlebury estate and it was eventually it was purchased in 1904 by Harold William Stannus Gray. Sir Harold died in 1951 and his wife two years later. Their son, Terence, presented the hill fort to the Cambridge Preservation Society in 1954. The Society at the same time bought the surrounding 38.67 hectares.

The estate and Wandlebury Ring have since then been owned and managed by the Cambridge Preservation Society and are freely open to the public all year. The 18th century house was demolished in 1955, but the ditch and ramparts of the Iron-Age earth works are still clearly defined. Under the archway of the old stable block is buried the Godolphin Arabian which died at the age of 29 in 1753. It was one of three stallions from which most modern thoroughbreds are descended.

 

Wandelbury Country Park

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