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
News & Updates


Meet the trustees: Carole O'Neill
Introducing SYCF trustee, Carole O’Neill. Carole, a former A&E Ward Sister in Doncaster and long-serving Magistrate, became South Yorkshire’s first female High Sheriff in 2020.
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Grant funding helping communities warm their homes
A project created to help families and people in Sheffield through fuel poverty has successfully supported 60 homes thanks to charitable funding.
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SYCF set to launch new grants system
A new and improved grants management system is being introduced by South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF) to make it easier and more efficient for individuals and organisations to apply for funding.
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SYGN networker profile: Quickline
Proudly part of South Yorkshire’s Giving Network, rural broadband provider, Quickline, holds two funds with our Community Foundation.
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