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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
Chilypep awarded £123,353 through Lead the Change
Chilypep in Southey Green, Sheffield has been awarded £123,353 over three years by South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation through Lead the Change, a funding programme supporting young people to build stronger, more connected communities.
Sheffield
Call for Baton Bearers to support suicide prevention relay
People across South Yorkshire with lived experience of suicide are being invited to become Baton Bearers when the UK’s biggest suicide awareness and prevention initiative arrives in Sheffield next year.
South Yorkshire
Meet the Funder event returns to Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park
Voluntary and community groups from across South Yorkshire are invited to will have the chance to meet major funders and explore grant opportunities at a free event in Sheffield in November.
Sheffield
Foundation’s CEO takes on charity sleepout to tackle homelessness
The chief executive of South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF) is aiming to raise £800 to support people experiencing poverty and homelessness across the region by taking part in a charity sleepout.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
