South Yorkshire Community Foundation Limited is a place-based community funder focused on improving quality of life across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield by channeling donor and business support into local grassroots organisations. Its giving strongly favors small, community-led groups and practical, immediate needs such as cost-of-living support, poverty relief, wellbeing, volunteering, and strengthening local spaces and services. It also makes some individual grants and responds to local crises, suggesting a highly responsive, community-foundation style grantmaker rather than a large strategic institutional funder.
Sign up free to see how well your nonprofit fits this funder, get an AI-generated pitch, and unlock similar foundations.
Primarily small, responsive grants with multiple local programmes and set panel review dates; some funds are rolling, while others open and close by programme cycle. Typical awards are up to £5,000, with some cost-of-living consortium bids up to £10,000, and support is often one-off for equipment, events, staffing, or essential operating costs.
Watch the programme-specific deadlines and panel dates closely, since some funds are rolling while others close once a round is full. Applicants should be small, local, and clearly tied to South Yorkshire priorities; strong proposals show direct community benefit, practical use of funds, and, for cost-of-living bids, clear alignment with food/fuel poverty or basic-needs support. For consortium or larger cost-of-living requests, emphasize collaboration and reach.
Current and upcoming funding from South Yorkshire Community Foundation Limited that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Not-for-profit organisations; groups should have annual income of no more than £10,000. Majority of grants are one-off payments for equipment or a one-off event.
Deadline: Rolling, with panel review dates at the end of January, March, June, September and December 2026; applications must be received in full 4 weeks before each review date.
Who can apply: Projects must benefit residents of the 3-mile area of benefit; local organisations within the area are prioritised, though outside organisations may apply if they clearly benefit the area and bring match funding.
Deadline: Applications submitted before 1 June 2026 9am will be considered for the end-of-June panel; no projects should start before 1 August.
Who can apply: Community organisations in South Yorkshire with a governing document, board or committee of at least three unrelated people, and a bank account in the organisation's name with at least two signatories.
Deadline: Applications are open (no fixed closing date given).
Who can apply: Grassroots community organisations within a three-mile radius of Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park; locally led and run; beneficiaries must live in South Yorkshire.
Deadline: Open with no fixed closing date stated; reapplications only after 12 months from prior award and report completion.
Who can apply: Two streams: one restricted to South Yorkshire residents, one UK-wide. Specific remit per stream; applicants should check stream criteria.
Deadline: Open all-year round; no fixed closing deadlines.
Track these deadlines, get reminders, and see how well your nonprofit fits — free with a Kindora account.
Create a free accountDeadlines and eligibility are summarized from public sources and may change — always confirm the details on the funder's official application page before applying.