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Blackstone Edge Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund

Blackstone Edge Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund

Ventient Energy has established the Blackstone Edge Windfarm Community Benefits Fund to support local community organisations, benefiting people living close to the Blackstone Edge windfarm in North West Barnsley.

SYCF Small Grants Programme

SYCF Small Grants Programme

These grants are intended for small, developing and less well-resourced groups and organisations from across South Yorkshire, where small amounts of funding can make a real difference.

South Yorkshire Cost of Living Grants

South Yorkshire Cost of Living Grants

South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation has set up a Cost of Living Fund giving financial support to community groups supporting residents in the South Yorkshire region to help reduce food and fuel poverty.

Loscar Wind Farm Community Fund

Loscar Wind Farm Community Fund

The Loscar Wind Farm Community Funds make small grants to support environmental sustainability and general community activities close to the site of their Loscar wind farm in Harthill, Rotherham.

SYCF Community Grants

SYCF Community Grants

SYCF Community Grants are made up of several funds provided by generous local donors, intended to support community groups and organisations across South Yorkshire

Tween Bridge Wind Farm Community Fund

Tween Bridge Wind Farm Community Fund

The grant programme supports projects benefitting local people within 3 miles of the Tween Bridge wind farm near Thorne, Doncaster that support one or more of the following themes:

Sheffield Cost of Living Grants

Sheffield Cost of Living Grants

Many people have been impacted by the increase in the cost of living, whether that’s through their energy bills or groceries in the shopping aisles. Sheffield City Council is committing £850,000 over 3 years through the Shared Prosperity Fund to deliver the Sheffield Cost of Living Fund.


News

Joint statement from voluntary sector partners
Ruth E Willis

Joint statement from voluntary sector partners

People in this country are facing an economic crisis of a magnitude not experienced for decades. Many who have until now been able to make ends meet will be pushed into poverty, and those who are already struggling will be pushed into desperation.

South Yorkshire

£600 donation to SYCF by Fishlake Flood Book Group
Ruth E Willis

£600 donation to SYCF by Fishlake Flood Book Group

South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF) would like to thank Fishlake Flood Book Group donated of over £600 to support people affected by flooding, through the sales of their book

South Yorkshire

2022 Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

2022 Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation are delighted to read community groups who have received funding from our Grants programmes, have given a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in celebration of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.

South Yorkshire

RWE’s Tween Bridge Wind Farm supporting local communities
Roz Richards

RWE’s Tween Bridge Wind Farm supporting local communities

South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation is pleased to announce the award of just over £8,600 towards the Fishlake Festival Funding Trust’s Jubilee Celebration events, which will take place between Thursday 2 June and Sunday 5 June 2022.

Doncaster

Mayor’s Fund backs South Yorkshire groups with huge cash injection

Mayor’s Fund backs South Yorkshire groups with huge cash injection

Health and wellbeing in South Yorkshire has been boosted by the distribution of £185,000 to over twenty community groups, from a fund by the Mayor of South Yorkshire, Dan Jarvis, working with the South Yorkshire Community Foundation (SYCF).

South Yorkshire

Social value experts headline Giving Network event
Natalie Harrison

Social value experts headline Giving Network event

Delegates from businesses and organisations across South Yorkshire came together for an exclusive networking event to hear from two industry experts about the benefits of social value and investment.

South Yorkshire


Our impact

Baby Basics

Baby Basics

Baby Basics is a project which supports disadvantaged parents and families struggling to meet the financial and practical demands of looking after a new baby or young children. Community Grant funding from SYCF helped cover core costs.

Sheffield

The Association of Barnsley Foster Carers

The Association of Barnsley Foster Carers

The Association of Barnsley Foster Carers formed in 1975 with the aim of improving the life chances of children in care through stimulating and educational activities. Funding was used to organise activities for the children including a Christmas party and pantomime trip.

Barnsley

Exodus

Exodus

Barnsley based charity Exodus provides diversionary education and activity clubs for children and young people to help turn them away from destructive lifestyles and choices. To achieve this, they utilised funding to run regular weekend camps for families, teaching family values and activities.

Barnsley

Disability Sheffield

Disability Sheffield

To raise awareness of Learning Disability Week 2023, themed about busting myths about living life with a learning disability, Disability Sheffield tell their story magically

Sheffield

Breaking Beats

Breaking Beats

Breaking Beats has become a respected group looking out for young people across South Yorkshire. Funding for session workers and specialist artists led to fifteen sessions to restore and paint murals on the Boat House building in Askern.

Doncaster

Barnsley YMCA

Barnsley YMCA

Barnsley YMCA has a strong legacy of supporting children from a variety of backgrounds throughout their lives. ‘Little Y’, an activities group for children aged five to eight has continued due to funding from SYCF's Community Grants.

Barnsley

Doncaster Plant Works Youth Club

Doncaster Plant Works Youth Club

The Doncaster Plant Works Amateur Boxing Club holds a weekly youth club in response to the level of deprivation faced by children in Hexthorpe. Young people from the ages of 7 to 18 are benefitting from funding obtained to continue these sessions

Doncaster

Fishlake History Society

Fishlake History Society

Fishlake History Society is dedicated to the preservation of the history of Fishlake village in Doncaster. To enable them to do that, they used funding to cover the cost of hiring a professional photographer.

Doncaster

Harthill Tea Day Social Club

Harthill Tea Day Social Club

Harthill Tea Day Social Club run fortnightly tea days for elderly people in Harthill, Tiverton and the surrounding areas, as well as also arranging trips for their members. Funding was used to help pay for the use of the local village hall where and to allow them to pay for the food and drinks they put on for members attending tea days.

Rotherham

Open Kitchen Social Club

Open Kitchen Social Club

Open Kitchen Social Club in Sheffield have been able to cover core costs, so they can continue the social club every Monday, welcoming anyone along including providing a hot meal.

Sheffield