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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.
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Our year of Giving in 2025
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£ 2,152,005
Total distributed
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411
Grants approved
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669,317
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
SYCF's record-breaking year of giving tops £2m
South Yorkshire's Community Foundation is celebrating a record-breaking year of giving distributing £2.1 million to voluntary and community groups across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.
South Yorkshire
UKSE Bursary Supports In2Change to Expand Life-Changing Youth Intervention Work
A Sheffield-based charity helping young people make positive life choices has received a boost through UKSE’s 50th anniversary bursary programme, delivered through South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation.
Sheffield
New research highlights desire for greater community involvement across the UK
One in six people in the UK want more opportunities to engage with their local community, with even higher demand in some urban areas, according to new research by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire communities come together to celebrate 40 years of giving
Community groups, supporters and dignitaries from across the region came together to celebrate four decades of local giving and community impact at a special anniversary awards event hosted by South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF).
South Yorkshire
