Fundraising for charity
Daffodil Weekend is all about raising funds for local charities and community projects. We have raised more than £500,000 over the last 51 years.
Nominated charity
Each year, local charities within 30 miles of Thriplow are invited to apply to become the Daffodil Weekend Trust nominated charity for the coming weekend. The chosen charity receives a percentage of the net profit from the weekend.
As the last DW was cancelled due to Covid three weeks before the event, we will be picking up where we left off with our very worthwhile nominated charities of 2020: Royal Papworth Charity and East Anglian Air Ambulance.
Parish of thriplow community grants
Charitable bodies within the civil parish of Thriplow are also invited to apply for grants for specific projects they require funding for. The deadline for grant applications is 28th February 2022.
Parish Youth Award for Good Citizenship
This award exists to encourage good citizenship by recognising members of the village under the age of 21 years who participate in projects which directly provide benefits for others, or their environment, particularly those less privileged, either locally, nationally or internationally.
The queen's award for voluntary service 2011
The tireless work of the village was recognised in 2011 when the Committee received The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service (the equivalent of an MBE for charities).
2019 beneficiaries
Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust
Heathfield HeART
Thriplow Cricket Club
Fowlmere School
St George’s Church, Thriplow
CamSight
Thriplow Speed Group
Ladybird Playgroup
Duxford Whittlesford Scouts
oUr NOMINATED Charities
2019 Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust (Registered Charity 1170103)
2018 Stars Children’s Bereavement Support Services (Registered Charity 1122625)
2017 East Anglia's Children's Hospices, Milton (Registered Charity 1069284)
2016 Eddies (Registered Charity 1143944)
2015 Beads of Courage (Registered Charity 1118733)
2014 Home Start (Royston & South Cambridgeshire)
2013 Bluesmile (Registered Charity 7411348)
2012 Tom's Trust (Registered Charity 1142670)
2011 Red2Green (Registered Charity 1112429)
2010 The Arthur Rank Hospice (Registered Charity 283353)
2009 Cam-mind (Registered Charity 265087)
2008 Parkinsons Disease Society (Registered Charity 258197)
2007 East Anglian Air Ambulance (Registered Charity 1083876)
2006 Alzheimers Society (Registered Charity No. 296645)
2005 The Sick Children's Trust (Reg. Charity no. 284416)
2004 Marie Curie Cancer Care (Reg. Charity: 207994)
2003 Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society (Reg. Charity: SC040180)
2002 Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, East Anglia (Reg. Charity: 205395)
2001 Cancelled due to Foot and Mouth
2000 Centre 33, Cambridge Branch (Reg. Charity: 1074974)
1999 The British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society, Cambridge Branch (Reg. Charity: 6652003)
1998 Winter Comfort, Cambridge (Reg. Charity: 1003083)
1997 Alzheimers Disease Society, Cambridge Branch (Reg. Charity: 2115499)
1996 Diabetes Centre Appeal, Addenbrooke's
1995 Moorlands, a Residential Home for the Older People, Melbourn
1994 Macmillan Cancer Care Appeal for Cambridge and District
1993 Sue Ryder Home Old Palace Appeal, Ely
1992 N.S.P.C.C. South Cambs. Branch
1991 The Cyreneans
1990 Addenbrooke's Cancer Scanner Fund
1989 J. Arthur Rank House, Cambridge & the Children's Hospice, Milton
1988 Duxford Opportunity Group
1987 Children's Hospice, Milton
1986 Cambridge Society for the Blind
1985 Papworth Hospital Amenities Fund
1984 Leukaemia Research
1983 Leukaemia Research