Help Protect the Cambridge You Love
Your support helps care for the landscapes, heritage and green spaces that make Cambridge special.
Your Support Protects Cambridge.
Cambridge Past, Present & Future is the only independent, local charity dedicated to protecting the beauty of Cambridge and its environment. We receive no statutory funding, so everything we do, from safeguarding green spaces to caring for historic places, is powered by people like you.
Ways to Support
Your support helps to:
Champion responsible development – Representing local interest in planning decisions to ensure that new developments throughout Greater Cambridge are sustainable and environmentally responsible.
Inspire the next generation – Supporting our rich cultural and educational programmes, including welcoming over 2,000 local schoolchildren each year to learn about nature, conservation, and Iron Age history.
Keep nature open to all – ensuring our green spaces remain freely accessible, safe, and enjoyable for visitors while providing healthy sanctuaries for wildlife.
Protect Cambridge’s heritage – Preserving some of the city and surrounding area’s rarest historic buildings, making them safe, accessible, and inspiring places to explore and marvel at our extraordinary human history.
Join as a Member or Patron
Memberships start at £29.99 a year. Patron memberships start at £50 a month/£500 a year. Your support helps protect Cambridge, and as a Member or Patron you’ll also enjoy:
FREE parking at Wandlebury | FREE entry to our six venues | FREE entry to events | Exclusive Member magazine | Exclusive Member events | 10% off Orchard Tea Garden
Every member, every donation, every gift —large or small—makes a tangible difference. Together, we can safeguard Cambridge’s natural and historic treasures for generations to come.
Philanthropic Giving
Major gifts play a pivotal role in what we do at CambridgePPF. As an independent charity, we rely on the generosity of individuals who believe in our mission to protect the heritage, green spaces, and nature of Cambridge. Your gift can make a real and lasting difference. By becoming a philanthropic supporter, you join a community dedicated to safeguarding the future of Cambridge. Philanthropic gifts are flexible – please contact us to start a conversation. Together, we can protect Cambridge for generations to come.
Corporate Partnerships
Cambridge, Past, Present & Future is pleased to work alongside companies that share our commitment to sustainability, heritage and community. As well as supporting our charitable work, your business can:
Host an annual programme of exclusive group volunteering days
Gain recognition across our print and digital channels
Sponsor high-profile projects and community events
Enjoy reduced rates on private hire
Bring conservation expertise into your team
For more details of the corporate volunteering opportunities, please click here. We also offer a range of sponsorship opportunities for companies looking to support our events and activities. For more information about any of these options please contact us
Our Corporate Partners Include
Together, we are protecting Cambridge’s past, present and future.
Giving in Memory
If you have treasured memories of a loved one or a special moment to commemorate at one of the places we care for, then making an in-memory gift to Cambridge Past, Present & Future is a great way to make a difference to local nature and heritage.
From planting or sponsoring a tree to a memorial sky gazing seat and our very popular butterfly plaques that adorn our pollinator garden, see below for more information on memorial giving at Cambridge Past, Present & Future, or contact our team here.
Leave a Legacy
If you or a loved one have had a lifetime’s pleasure from places such as Wandlebury Country Park and Coton Country Reserve or our heritage sites, then a legacy gift is a great way of helping future generations to enjoy it too. Legacies large and small to enable us to:-
- Care for places such as Wandlebury,
- Create Coton Countryside Reserve
- Provide learning and outreach
- Look after the historic buildings in our care.
Leaving a legacy is often a lot simpler than you think
Because we are a charity your gift in a will is exempt from Inheritance Tax and you could reduce the amount of inheritance tax due on your estate by leaving us a legacy.
If you are thinking of leaving a legacy it would be best to speak to your solicitor. You can find a solicitor at www.lawsociety.org.uk. If you do decide to give a legacy it is helpful to include our charity number – 204121.
Read our wills blog here
There are a number of ways you can leave a legacy to us, it can be:
- a specified amount of money
- a percentage of your estate
- specific items.
It may also take the form of
- a donation in memory of a loved one
- a gift instead of floral tributes at a funeral.