You are here: Home Our Impact News News The latest information from South Yorkshire's Community Foundation, including updates from your local area Stay updated through our monthly newsletter Sign-up Region Barnsley Doncaster Sheffield Rotherham South Yorkshire Theme Arts and Heritage Crime and Safety Disadvantage and Inequity Education and Learning Healthy Living Housing and Homelessness Mental Health Natural Environment Stronger Communities Work and the Local Economy Call for Baton Bearers to support suicide prevention relay 19th October 2026 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 16th October 2026 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 Rotherham community group helping people write their way to wellness 10th August 2026 A Rotherham-based community organisation has been awarded a £5,000 grant to run creative health workshops for people who have experienced trauma. Rotherham Grant funding for Barnsley dementia exercise group 6th July 2026 People living with dementia and their families, as well as those with physical challenges in Barnsley are benefiting from a new exercise group created thanks to grant funding from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF). Barnsley Business grant breakthrough for apprentice’s new events enterprise 24th June 2026 A Sheffield-based apprentice has turned an idea born from his own experience into a thriving events enterprise thanks to support from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF). Sheffield Meet the Funder event brings South Yorkshire community groups together 22nd April 2026 Sheffield’s Canon Medical Arena provided the backdrop for scores of voluntary and community groups from across South Yorkshire to connect with funders at a special free event. South Yorkshire Charitable rugby funding tackling social isolation 26th January 2026 A series of inclusive walking rugby sessions is helping participants stay active, make new friends and feel more connected to their community. Sheffield Community funding leaving a sporting legacy in Darnall 30th January 2025 New sporting sessions are being delivered in Darnall to improve the health and wellbeing of local young people thanks to SYCF funding. Sheffield 1 2 3 Next
Call for Baton Bearers to support suicide prevention relay 19th October 2026 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 16th October 2026 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
Rotherham community group helping people write their way to wellness 10th August 2026 A Rotherham-based community organisation has been awarded a £5,000 grant to run creative health workshops for people who have experienced trauma. Rotherham
Grant funding for Barnsley dementia exercise group 6th July 2026 People living with dementia and their families, as well as those with physical challenges in Barnsley are benefiting from a new exercise group created thanks to grant funding from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF). Barnsley
Business grant breakthrough for apprentice’s new events enterprise 24th June 2026 A Sheffield-based apprentice has turned an idea born from his own experience into a thriving events enterprise thanks to support from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF). Sheffield
Meet the Funder event brings South Yorkshire community groups together 22nd April 2026 Sheffield’s Canon Medical Arena provided the backdrop for scores of voluntary and community groups from across South Yorkshire to connect with funders at a special free event. South Yorkshire
Charitable rugby funding tackling social isolation 26th January 2026 A series of inclusive walking rugby sessions is helping participants stay active, make new friends and feel more connected to their community. Sheffield
Community funding leaving a sporting legacy in Darnall 30th January 2025 New sporting sessions are being delivered in Darnall to improve the health and wellbeing of local young people thanks to SYCF funding. Sheffield
