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Transforming South Yorkshire through grant giving to community groups
South Yorkshire's Community Foundation helps individuals and businesses who want to give generously to support income generation for our wide-ranging grant programmes.
Giving - to community organisations and helping people, businesses to give - is what we have been passionate about for almost 40 years.
SYCF is the region’s largest local grant giving charity.
Every year, we support hundreds of community projects and organisations across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield with grant funding. Since 1986, the Community Foundation has given out almost £40m to grassroots groups.
Over 40 years, the Foundation has created a remarkable legacy of empowering communities, supporting local charities and making a lasting difference across in South Yorkshire's communities.
It's A Giving Thing!
Our year of Giving in 2024
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£ 1315398
Total distributed
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423
Grants approved
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96608
Individuals supported
Barnsley YMCA
Children between ages five and eight years old have been supported by Barnsley YMCA, with grant funding providing activities to keep the little ones entertained and engaged.
Barnsley
Darfield Bowls Club
Read how Darfield Bowls Club renovated their venue to allow players to safely access the ground, including Harry who has a severe health diagnosis, to participate and be comfortable in the surroundings.
Barnsley
Blackburn Club for Young People
Funding from our Community Grants allowed the Blackburn Club For Young People to be able to bring in paid staff members with professional training to lead their sessions, delivering projects and activities for young people to keep them off the streets and away from anti-social behaviour.
Rotherham
Disability Sheffield
The weather has improved with the arrival of the sunshine and warm temperatures, ice creams are being enjoyed and it’s not long before school is out for the summer holidays. Disability Sheffield have been creating magical poetry thanks to SYCF funding which allowed the group to hire tutors to lead the creative sessions.
Sheffield
News & Updates
Meet our team: Andy Kershaw
Meet Andy Kershaw, our SYFAB Training Coordinator. Andy oversees SYFAB’s training programme for community and voluntary groups and delivers several of our specialist funding courses.
South Yorkshire
Community groups enjoy a magical Christmas at Gulliver’s
Young people from across South Yorkshire were treated to a festive day to remember at Gulliver’s Valley Theme Park Resort, thanks to a special charity ticket giveaway.
Rotherham
Partnership to improve maternity care for under-served South Yorkshire communities
A new partnership between South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF) and NHS South Yorkshire is set to help improve maternity and neonatal care experiences for women and families across the region.
South Yorkshire
£8,000 boost for quartet of community groups
Four deserving South Yorkshire community groups have each received a share of £8,000 at a special social value event.
South Yorkshire
