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 SYGN: Meet our Networkers 15th June 2026 One of the newest organisation’s to join South Yorkshire’s Giving Network is Exagen Development Limited - a British founded and owned company focused on the development of high-quality renewable generation and storage projects. Rotherham Partnership to protect South Yorkshire water levels 12th November 2025 SYCF has partnered with Connected by Water to keep South Yorkshire resilient by saving water in our homes and gardens. South Yorkshire Memorial garden to commemorate Yorkshire’s mining history 10th September 2025 Barnsley Main Heritage Group volunteers have commemorated the fallen, injured and forgotten of Yorkshire’s mining past - thanks to support from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation. Barnsley Grant funding helping communities warm their homes 30th June 2025 A project created to help families and people in Sheffield through fuel poverty has successfully supported 60 homes thanks to charitable funding. Sheffield Banner Cross High Street project signed, sealed and delivered! 21st May 2025 A mini-transformation project to boost business on a Sheffield high street has been completed with support from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF). Sheffield South Yorkshire’s Mayor opens second round of A Tree for Everyone Grant Fund to plant more trees across the region 20th May 2025 South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard, has opened the second round of his A Tree for Everyone Grant Fund to help plant more trees across our communities. South Yorkshire SWEF Grant Helps Young Carpenter Carve Out Success 26th March 2025 In 2024, Andrew Merson received a grant from the Social Enterprise Fund to support his carpentry business, Sheffield Woodcraft. The grant allowed him to purchase essential high-quality tools, improving efficiency and contributing to business growth. South Yorkshire South Yorkshire’s Mayor opens £50,000 A Tree for Everyone Grant Fund for the region 24th January 2025 South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard, has opened a new Tree for Everyone Grant Fund which is available to everyone in the region who would like to plant more trees. Sheffield 1 2 Next
SYGN: Meet our Networkers 15th June 2026 One of the newest organisation’s to join South Yorkshire’s Giving Network is Exagen Development Limited - a British founded and owned company focused on the development of high-quality renewable generation and storage projects. Rotherham
Partnership to protect South Yorkshire water levels 12th November 2025 SYCF has partnered with Connected by Water to keep South Yorkshire resilient by saving water in our homes and gardens. South Yorkshire
Memorial garden to commemorate Yorkshire’s mining history 10th September 2025 Barnsley Main Heritage Group volunteers have commemorated the fallen, injured and forgotten of Yorkshire’s mining past - thanks to support from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation. Barnsley
Grant funding helping communities warm their homes 30th June 2025 A project created to help families and people in Sheffield through fuel poverty has successfully supported 60 homes thanks to charitable funding. Sheffield
Banner Cross High Street project signed, sealed and delivered! 21st May 2025 A mini-transformation project to boost business on a Sheffield high street has been completed with support from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF). Sheffield
South Yorkshire’s Mayor opens second round of A Tree for Everyone Grant Fund to plant more trees across the region 20th May 2025 South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard, has opened the second round of his A Tree for Everyone Grant Fund to help plant more trees across our communities. South Yorkshire
SWEF Grant Helps Young Carpenter Carve Out Success 26th March 2025 In 2024, Andrew Merson received a grant from the Social Enterprise Fund to support his carpentry business, Sheffield Woodcraft. The grant allowed him to purchase essential high-quality tools, improving efficiency and contributing to business growth. South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire’s Mayor opens £50,000 A Tree for Everyone Grant Fund for the region 24th January 2025 South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard, has opened a new Tree for Everyone Grant Fund which is available to everyone in the region who would like to plant more trees. Sheffield
