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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
Every step counts for new postnatal wellbeing walks
A group created to support new mums in Sheffield to improve their physical and mental wellbeing is stepping up thanks to charitable funding.
SYCF Community Grants programme to open in September
South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF) has announced its Community Grants programme will reopen in September 2025.
South Yorkshire
Meet the team: Alison Wade
Introducing our finance manager, Alison Wade – she’s responsible for the day-to-day management of all the Foundation’s financial activity.
South Yorkshire
Helping charities to innovate with Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
We’re working with The University of Sheffield championing Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) to support local charities to grow, become more sustainable and innovate.
Sheffield
