How to get involved or help

Please help us to commemorate and celebrate significant people or events and help to inform people about local history:

Make a donation to help to pay for blue plaques to be created, installed and celebrated on buildings in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire. Click here.

Volunteer your time. The Cambridge Blue Plaque Scheme is run by volunteers. We need help with administration, fundraising, organising events or, if you are a local historian or researcher. If you would like to help us then please email [email protected]

Carry out your own research and nominate a person or event for a blue plaque (click here for details).

Share this page and tell your friends, family and colleagues about the Cambridge Blue Plaques and encourage them to help.

Blue Plaques Appeal

Help install blue plaques to commemorate people or events

Sponsor Terry Spencer for the Coton Busway Sponsored Walk 1 May 2023

Act now to protect the beautiful countryside on the western fringe of Cambridge from being built on.

The Greater Cambridge Partnership is proposing to improve journeys between Cambourne and Cambridge using funds from central government. They want to build a new bus road across the countryside between Hardwick and the edge of Cambridge with a giant car park next to the A428.
Wandlebury Scything Festival

Sunday 23 July, 10am - 3pm, Wandlebury Country Park. Celebrate scything & hay making with us.
Leper Chapel Opening, Cambridge

Sun 23 April, 1.30-3.30pm at Cambridge Leper Chapel. Your chance to see inside one of Cambridge’s oldest buildings which is not usually open to the public.
Leper Chapel Opening, Cambridge

Sun 9 April, 1.30-3.30pm at Cambridge Leper Chapel. Your chance to see inside one of Cambridge’s oldest buildings which is not usually open to the public.