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Five Villages. One Community.
We’re the Fen Edge Community Association, the charity behind Fen Edge News and the Fen Edge Festival. Since 1985 we’ve helped local clubs, groups and societies do more, with grants, kit to borrow and free publicity in 8,000 homes.
Registered charity 293020, run by volunteers from the five villages.
Fen Edge Festival 2028
Friday 23 to Sunday 25 June, Cottenham. Free to attend.
- 1985Backing local clubs and groups since
- 90+Member clubs, groups and societies
- 8,000Homes get Fen Edge News, free
- 5,000People at the 2026 Festival
Start here
How Can We Help?
Whether you live here, run a group or run a local business, there’s a quick way in.
I Run a Group
Grants, kit, publicity and a free Fun Run stall, all for £15 a year.
See what members getI Run a Business
Put your business in front of 8,000 local homes, from £60 an issue.
Advertise with usI’d Like to Help
Join the 2028 Festival team or give a few hours to a local group.
Lend a handComing up
Dates for Your Diary
A taste of what member groups have on in the coming weeks, from the Fen Edge News events diary.
Rampton Spinners
Litter Pick
Sustainable Cottenham
Christmas Origami Workshop
Willingham Women’s Institute
Tea and Chat
Rampton Tea Club
Thursday Hub
Cottenham Baptist Church
WWII RAF Diary Talk
Cottenham Village Society, with Susan Rowe
Repair Café
Sustainable Cottenham
Memory Box Cafe
Willingham Memory Box Cafe
Family Quiz
Friends of All Saints’ Cottenham
Packing Day
Cottenham Branch Operation Christmas Child
Musical Meeting
Rampton Tea Club
Christmas Wreath Making
Cottenham Community Centre
Christmas Tree Festival
Friends of All Saints’ Church Landbeach
Question Time and Quiz
Cottenham Gardeners Club
Christmas Market
Cottenham Community Centre
Nothing listed here for that village in this issue’s diary. Try the village calendars below, or the full FECA events calendar.
More dates: FECA events calendar (opens in a new tab) Landbeach events (opens in a new tab) Rampton events (opens in a new tab) Waterbeach events (opens in a new tab) Willingham events (opens in a new tab)
Fancy a Class?
When Cottenham Village College stopped running adult education courses in 2025, we started listing local classes instead, from drawing to upholstery. See the courses (opens in a new tab)
Running an Event?
Member groups’ events go in the calendar, on our website and in Fen Edge News for free. Send yours to the editor
For clubs, groups and societies
Put the Whole Patch Behind Your Group for £15 a Year
Membership is open to clubs, groups and societies that serve the Fen Edge. From the swift watchers in Cottenham to the horse show in Rampton, more than 90 groups already belong.
- Get your news in front of 8,000 homes without paying for an advert.
- Apply for grants of £50 to £5,000 for the projects that help you grow.
- Borrow the marquee, games and cups that make an event.
The membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March. Already a member? Use your access token in the Members’ Portal (opens in a new tab) to update your group’s details.
What £15 a Year Gets You
Fen Edge Community Association membership
- Your news in Fen Edge News, through 8,000 doorsFree
- Posts on our website and Facebook pageFree
- Your own page on our websiteFree
- Listings on the events calendarFree
- A stall at the Cottenham Fun RunFree
- Exhibition display boards on loanFree
- Rooms at Cottenham Village CollegeReduced rates
- Cottenham Village College minibusesMembers only
- Marquee, crazy golf, ball maze and cupsYours to borrow
- Grants for your projects£50 to £5,000
Total£15 a year
Grants for member groups
Grants From £50 to £5,000 for Your Projects
Most of our grants are under £1,000, and they’re meant to help a group get started or take on a one-off project: new kit, a first event, something that helps you grow.
Next decisions on Thursday 19 NovemberSend your application by Thursday 12 November to be considered.
Applications are open all yearSend yours at least a week before a committee meeting. We aim to decide within two months.
Ready to Apply? Check in Four Questions
A quick check against our grant policy before you fill in the form.
Is your group a member of the Fen Edge Community Association?
Not sure? The grant policy (opens in a new tab) sets out who and what we can fund.
How It Works
Apply Online
Fill in the grant form at least a week before a Management Committee meeting. We’ll email to say it has arrived.
We Check It Fits
Our Chair, Secretary and Treasurer check it against the grant policy, and may ask you for more detail.
The Committee Decides
The committee meets about every two months. We aim to decide within two months of your application.
You Get Paid
We’ll write within a week of the decision, and pay within four weeks of confirming your grant.
What We Can’t Fund
- Running costs or a group’s general activities
- Projects that have already happened
- Individuals, or other organisations’ grant-making
- General fundraising appeals, or services the government has to provide
For member groups
Borrow the Kit That Makes an Event
Member groups can borrow the same kit that helps run the Fen Edge Festival. It’s all for community events rather than private parties.
£100 per event
The Marquee
Festoon lights included. We help with the risk assessment and the build; you bring at least six volunteers to put it up and take it down. We may cover the fee with a £100 grant for a good cause.
Book the marquee (opens in a new tab)
£50 refundable deposit
Ball Climber Maze
A test of patience that was a hit at the 2026 Festival, thanks to sponsorship from Furniture Makers in Cottenham. Good fun for every age.
Book the maze (opens in a new tab)
For member events
Reusable Cups
Around 300 blue-printed half-pint cups. At the 2019 Festival they kept more than 1,500 single-use plastic cups out of landfill.
Borrow the cups (opens in a new tab)
£50 refundable deposit
Nine-Hole Crazy Golf
A Festival favourite with clubs and balls included. Set it up indoors or out, on grass or hard standing.
Book crazy golf (opens in a new tab)
Free loan
Display Boards
Exhibition display boards for open days, shows and anything else where you want to tell people about your group.
Ask the Secretary
Members only
College Minibuses
Members can hire Cottenham Village College minibuses, and get reduced rates when booking rooms at the college.
Ask how it worksQuestions about the marquee? Email marquee@fenedge.co.uk.
The Fen Edge Festival
Free to Attend. Every Penny Back to the Patch.
Our festival is our biggest fundraiser and our best party. Around 5,000 people came to Cottenham in June 2026 for three days of music, heavy horses, a Spitfire flypast and much more, and all of the profit goes back to member groups.
- Free for everyone. No ticket, no entry fee, across the village green, the village college and the community centre.
- Run by neighbours. About 20 committee volunteers gave 842 hours over the weekend, and walked roughly 600 miles between them.
- Good for every group. Every ice cream, pint and raffle ticket helps fund the clubs and groups of the five villages.
Save the date
Friday 23 to Sunday 25 June 2028
Planning for the next Festival starts soon. Want to help shape it?
Fen Edge Festival 2026. Photos by Harry Pledger.
“I am proud of the community we live in.”
The Cottenham Fun Run
A 7K and a junior run through Cottenham in May, organised in 2026 with the ROCStars running club. Member groups get a free stall on the day.
Fun Run news and results (opens in a new tab)Lend a Hand
Volunteers make all of this happen. Join the Festival team for 2028, help put up the marquee for a member group’s event, or give some time to one of our 90+ groups.
Traders at the 2026 Festival thought a professional events team had run it. It was run by people from these five villages.
Our magazine
Fen Edge News, Free to 8,000 Homes
News from local clubs, groups and councils, delivered across all five villages three times a year: New Year in November, Spring/Summer in March and Autumn in late July.
- 68 pages in the Autumn 2026 issue
- 3 issues a year, all free
- 5 villages, every edition
The New Year 2027 issue arrives at the end of November.
Share Your Group’s News
Member groups’ articles and events go in free, subject to space, and photos are welcome. We email every member group a couple of weeks before each copy deadline.
Next copy deadline: Monday 22 February 2027, for the Spring/Summer issue.
Advertise to 8,000 Homes
| Quarter page | £60 |
|---|---|
| Half page | £95 |
| Full page | £150 |
Prices per issue, printed in full colour. Inside and back covers are £25 extra.
Our members
Find Your People
More than 90 clubs, groups and societies belong to FECA, from bowls and ballet to swifts and spinning. Pick a village or search for what you love.
The Fen Edge Patch
The Fen Edge Patch is home to about 16,000 people and matches the catchment of Cottenham Village College. Map not to scale.
All Member Groups
Showing all 94 member groups
- 2nd Cottenham Scout GroupCottenham
- All Saints’ Church Rampton Action GroupRampton
- All Saints’ Church, CottenhamCottenham
- April Burgess Martin School of BalletAcross the Patch
- Cambridge Equine Assisted Learning CentreCottenham
- Cambridgeshire Geological SocietyAcross Cambridgeshire
- Care Network CambridgeshireAcross Cambridgeshire
- Cogwheel CounsellingAcross Cambridgeshire
- Cottenham & District Ploughing SocietyCottenham
- Cottenham Action for SwiftsCottenham
- Cottenham and Rampton Lunch & Social ClubCottenham
- Cottenham Baby CaféCottenham
- Cottenham Baptist ChurchCottenham
- Cottenham Baptist Church Under Ones GroupCottenham
- Cottenham Bowls ClubCottenham
- Cottenham Branch Operation Christmas ChildCottenham
- Cottenham Canvas ArtCottenham
- Cottenham Care CarCottenham
- Cottenham CharitiesCottenham
- Cottenham Community AllotmentCottenham
- Cottenham Community CentreCottenham
- Cottenham Community Centre CaféCottenham
- Cottenham Cricket ClubCottenham
- Cottenham Cricket Club Junior TeamsCottenham
- Cottenham Dissenters’ CemeteryCottenham
- Cottenham District Guides, Brownies & RainbowsCottenham
- Cottenham Gardeners ClubCottenham
- Cottenham Jaguars Netball ClubCottenham
- Cottenham Mobile Warden SchemeCottenham
- Cottenham Parish CouncilCottenham
- Cottenham Primary School PTCACottenham
- Cottenham Renegades RUFCCottenham
- Cottenham Tennis ClubCottenham
- Cottenham Theatre WorkshopCottenham
- Cottenham Toy LibraryCottenham
- Cottenham United Colts FCCottenham
- Cottenham United FCCottenham
- Cottenham Village CollegeAcross the Patch
- Cottenham Village College PTFAAcross the Patch
- Cottenham Village SocietyCottenham
- Cottenham WatercolourCottenham
- Denny Abbey and The Farmland MuseumAcross Cambridgeshire
- Fen Edge Archaeology GroupAcross the Patch
- Fen Edge FestivalAcross the Patch
- Fen Edge OrchestraAcross the Patch
- Fen Edge TrailAcross the Patch
- Fen Edge Twinning AssociationAcross the Patch
- Fen Edge VoicesAcross the Patch
- Fen Edge WalkersAcross the Patch
- Firs House & Telegraph Street PPGCottenham
- Friends of All Saints’ Church LandbeachLandbeach
- Friends of All Saints’ CottenhamCottenham
- Friends of Willingham ChurchWillingham
- Friends of Worts MeadowLandbeach
- Jack Stinton Dance CompanyAcross the Patch
- Ladybird Pre SchoolCottenham
- Landbeach and Milton Baptist ChurchLandbeach
- Landbeach Parish CouncilLandbeach
- Let’s Run GirlsCottenham
- Little SaintsCottenham
- RampartsRampton
- Rampton Christmas FairiesRampton
- Rampton Horse ShowRampton
- Rampton Parish CouncilRampton
- Rampton SpinnersRampton
- Rampton Tea ClubRampton
- Rampton Village HallRampton
- Rampton ’77 CommitteeRampton
- Rotary Club Cambridge SouthAcross Cambridgeshire
- Saint Mary and All Saints WillinghamWillingham
- Sandy Hill Community Project CentreAcross Cambridgeshire
- Stitch WildAcross Cambridgeshire
- Sustainable CottenhamCottenham
- Sustainable RamptonRampton
- Tithe Barn TrustLandbeach
- TOPS (Baptist Church Toddlers Group)Willingham
- Waterbeach Angling ClubWaterbeach
- Waterbeach Community AssociationWaterbeach
- Waterbeach Cricket ClubWaterbeach
- Waterbeach Military Heritage MuseumWaterbeach
- Waterbeach Parish CouncilWaterbeach
- Willingham Action GroupWillingham
- Willingham Baptist ChurchWillingham
- Willingham Baptist Church Kids’ Friday ClubWillingham
- Willingham Baptist Church Youth ClubWillingham
- Willingham Bowls ClubWillingham
- Willingham Gardening ClubWillingham
- Willingham Guides and RangersWillingham
- Willingham LifeWillingham
- Willingham Memory Box CafeWillingham
- Willingham Parish CouncilWillingham
- Willingham Social ClubWillingham
- Willingham WheelsWillingham
- Willingham Women’s InstituteWillingham
No groups match that search. Try a shorter word, or clear the filters.
Contact details for every group are on the full members list (opens in a new tab).
About FECA
Run by Volunteers, Answerable to You
We formed in 1985 to make the Fen Edge a better place to learn, meet and have fun. Our money comes from membership fees, the Festival and adverts in Fen Edge News, and it goes back into the villages as grants and projects.
- A registered charity, number 293020, with seven trustees and a constitution updated in 2020.
- A Management Committee that meets about every two months to run things and decide grants.
- An Annual General Meeting that’s open to everyone. This year’s was on Wednesday 13 May.
Constitution (PDF, opens in a new tab) Bye-laws (opens in a new tab) Grant policy (opens in a new tab) Finance policy (opens in a new tab) Equality policy (opens in a new tab) Data protection (opens in a new tab)
Who to Contact
Chair
The Festival, volunteering and anything else
chair@fenedge.co.ukSecretary
Joining, membership and general questions
secretary@fenedge.co.ukTreasurer
Grant payments and finances
treasurer@fenedge.co.ukEditor and Webmaster
Fen Edge News and website posts
editor@fenedge.co.ukAdvertising
Adverts in Fen Edge News
advertising@fenedge.co.ukMarquee Bookings
Hiring the FECA marquee
marquee@fenedge.co.uk
Good to know
Questions, Answered
Who can join FECA?
Any club, group or society that serves the Fen Edge Patch. Membership costs £15 a year, runs from 1 April to 31 March, and you apply online through the Members’ Portal.
Can I join as an individual?
Membership is for groups. As a resident, the best way in is to join one of our member groups, volunteer at the Festival, or come along to our Annual General Meeting, which is open to everyone.
Who can apply for a grant?
FECA member groups, plus Cottenham Village College. Grants aren’t normally given until a group has been a member for six months, and they’re for specific, costed projects rather than running costs.
How long does a grant decision take?
We aim to decide within two months. Send your application at least a week before a Management Committee meeting. Urgent requests can sometimes be decided by email between meetings.
Can I hire the marquee for a private party?
No. The marquee, crazy golf, ball maze and cups are for member groups’ community events, not private functions.
Is Fen Edge News free?
Yes. It’s delivered free to 8,000 homes in Cottenham, Landbeach, Rampton, Waterbeach and Willingham three times a year, and you can read it online too.
How do we get our news into Fen Edge News?
Member groups’ articles and event listings go in free, subject to space. Email the editor before the copy deadline. The next one is Monday 22 February 2027, for the Spring/Summer issue.
When is the next Fen Edge Festival?
Friday 23 to Sunday 25 June 2028, in Cottenham. It’s free to attend, and planning starts soon if you’d like to help.
Get in touch
Talk to Us
A question about joining, grants, kit or the magazine? Send us a message and the right volunteer will get back to you.
Prefer Email?
Write to our Secretary at secretary@fenedge.co.uk, or pick the right person from the list above.
Follow Along
News from member groups goes up on our Facebook page (opens in a new tab) between issues of the magazine.
