About
South Yorkshire's Community Foundation (SYCF) is the region's largest local grant giving charity, established in 1986. The Foundation helps individuals and businesses give generously to support wide-ranging grant programmes for community groups and organisations across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. Over almost 40 years, SYCF has distributed almost £40 million to grassroots groups, empowering communities, supporting local charities, and promoting economic, social, physical and mental well-being across South Yorkshire.
Funding Opportunities
South Yorkshire Health and Growth Accelerator Community Grants
The Health and Growth Accelerator (HGA) Community Grants programme is part of the wider Pathways to Work initiative. HGA aims to integrate employment and health interventions, ensuring people can stay in, or return to work while improving overall workforce wellbeing. The programme prevents people from becoming economically inactive through improving workplace health support, integrating employment and health services, and enhancing collaboration between NHS, Local Authorities, employers, and voluntary sectors. The programme funds community-led nature-based connections, creative health approaches, and other activities delivered by voluntary and community organizations. Priority One supports adults (18+) in work who have had recent history of absences due to mild to moderate mental health and mood disorders, musculoskeletal conditions, and chronic pain. Priority Two supports young people aged 16-24 with low to moderate anxiety or depression who are in education or employment but have had periods of absence, or are struggling to enter the workplace due to their health needs, including those who are neurodiverse.
NHS Maternity Care Research Small Grants Programme
NHS South Yorkshire's Local Maternity & Neonatal System (LMNS) offers small grants to community groups across South Yorkshire to engage specific communities in gathering stories, feedback and experiences from women and families who have used maternity and neonatal services in the past 2-3 years. The program targets communities that often experience the poorest outcomes from maternity care, including groups in areas of high deprivation, Romanian communities, Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities, Somali communities, young people, and adults living with complex medical conditions. Organizations receiving grants should undertake comprehensive community engagement and share findings at a special listening event to help shape NHS South Yorkshire's new involvement strategy. The program aims to ensure future maternity care is co-designed by under-served communities so their voices can be amplified.
QFutures
QFutures is a grant program generously supported by Quickline, specialist broadband providers to rural communities. This fund works with organisations committed to improving pathways to employment and support to keep individuals in employment for people aged 30 and over across South Yorkshire. The program offers both one-off project funding up to £5,000 to be spent within 12 months and multi-year funding up to £5,000 per year for three years (total £15,000). Initial preference will be given to those working in rural communities in Doncaster and Rotherham, though the fund is keen to support groups across the region. Based on consultation with local employers, partners and community organisations, the fund supports a range of approaches including pre-employability, pathways into work, and supporting people to stay in work. Grants can fund one-off or continuing projects and can also cover core costs if the organisation's charitable purpose is to improve employability for people. The grant funding focuses on project costs including operating and revenue costs, with encouragement to pay at least the real Living Wage for staff costs.
Moving On Up
The Moving on Up fund is a grant program generously supported by Quickline, specialist broadband providers to rural communities. This pilot project works with groups focused on improving the employability skills and prospects for people in South Yorkshire, aged 30 and under. The aim of this funding is to help community organisations support young people in South Yorkshire from pre-employability through to established pathways. Initial preference will be given to those working in rural communities in Doncaster and Rotherham, but support is available across the region. The fund supports a range of approaches from pre-employability through to pathways into work. Grants can fund one-off or continuing projects, and can also be for core costs if your organisation's charitable purpose is to improve employability for young people. The grant funding is focused on project costs including operating and revenue costs, with encouragement to pay at least the real Living Wage for staff costs. Organizations are encouraged to include a fair share of overheads like rent or room hire, utilities, and admin or management costs needed to support their project.
SWEF - South Yorkshire Enterprise Fund
The SWEF enterprise and business fund awards grants to young people in South Yorkshire who need support with business start-up costs that they would otherwise not be able to afford, particularly those who are not in education, employment or training. The program offers two tiers of support: Start-Up Business Grants of up to £500 for individuals whose business is still in the start-up or pre-revenue phase and has yet to make any income or sales, and Established Business Grants of up to £2,000 for businesses that have been trading for under two years. This is not a loan scheme and recipients do not need to pay the grant back. The grants can be used for equipment, materials, stock or services needed to get the business running or support its development, but cannot be used for salary or living costs. Applicants who receive a grant of £500 or less can re-apply for a second grant of up to £1,500 at a later stage. All grant recipients have the opportunity to participate in a business forum with other recipients to exchange ideas and experiences, and one-to-one business mentoring may also be available.
The Deakin and Withers Fund
The Deakin and Withers Fund, administered by South Yorkshire's Community Foundation, provides grants to women nationwide who are experiencing financial difficulty and hardship. The fund is specifically designed to support women over 40 years old who are single, divorced, or widowed and are active members of a Church. The grants can be used to pay utility bills or purchase household items to ease financial hardship. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year, with decisions typically made within six weeks. The fund requires applications to be read and witnessed by a Member of the Church before submission, and supporting documentation such as bank statements and quotes must be provided.
Sir Samuel Osborn's Deed of Gift Relief Fund
The Sir Samuel Osborn's Deed of Gift Relief Fund provides grants up to £1,000 to assist former employees of the Samuel Osborn Company, or one of its subsidiaries, and their direct linear descendants (e.g. children, grandchildren etc.). The fund primarily supports costs associated with undertaking any training or education, including books, equipment and living costs. Discretionary grants are also available to those demonstrating need for convalescent or recuperative holidays or care, medical comforts or equipment not available through the NHS, and other pressing needs on a case-by-case basis. Applications are limited to one grant per person per year. The fund is administered by South Yorkshire's Community Foundation and is open all year round with decisions typically made within twelve weeks.
Sheffield Legacy Fund
The Sheffield Legacy Fund provides grants to grassroots community organisations within a three-mile radius of Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park to fund activities addressing physical and mental health and wellbeing. The fund supports charities, social enterprises and community groups doing work to support people by providing physical and mental health and well-being activities. Thanks to the generosity of Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park partners, small grants are available to community organisations to support this work. The fund particularly encourages applications from organisations led by and/or providing support to minoritised and marginalised communities in this area of Sheffield. Individual organisations can apply for grants of up to £1,000 to be spent within one year. Consortiums bringing together more than one community organisation in a single bid can apply for larger grants of up to £5,000, with one organisation identified as the lead applicant who will hold the grant and be accountable for it. The priority is to support all, or the majority, of the event or activity so that the grant can have real impact.
SYCF Small Grants Programme
The Small Grants Programme is designed for small, developing and less well-resourced groups and organisations from across South Yorkshire, where small amounts of funding can make a real difference. Groups applying for the programme should not have an annual income of more than £10,000. The majority of grants are one-off payments of up to £1,000. These grants are intended for not-for-profit organisations that can demonstrate how they will address community needs to pay for one-off events or equipment. Organisations do not have to be registered charities. The programme prioritizes groups that respond to their communities' needs, activities or projects that support people whose needs can be clearly demonstrated, and groups whose main activities focus upon the advancement of education, promotion of good health or the relief of poverty and sickness. The foundation is particularly interested in hearing from groups that work in collaboration with other local community groups, activities or projects that engage people who face discrimination or disadvantage, and activities or projects that produce a wide range of benefits and provide good value for money. The programme operates on a rolling basis with set panel review dates at the end of January, March, June, September and December.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 14
- Active Now
- 9
- Source Domain
- sycf.org.uk
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