Exciting team announcement from SYCF!
Michelle Dickinson has been appointed as our new deputy CEO.
She's also taken on the title of Head of Partnerships and Programmes. 🤝
Congratulations, Michelle, on this much-deserved promotion 🎉 www.sycf.org.uk/our-impact/n...
Six funding organisations, two hours, one spectacular venue! ☑️ ☑️ ☑️
Join us on Thursday this week for a free Meet the Funder special!
⌚ 10am-12pm
📌 Canon Medical Arena, Worksop Road, Sheffield S9 3TL
There’s still time to book on via: www.syfab.org.uk/event-detail...
What a brilliant morning in sunny Barnsley for our latest South Yorkshire's Giving Network event! Bringing together businesses and individuals to explore what more can we achieve when we work together to support the next generation. Huge thanks to Barnsley College
#socialvalue #networkingwithpurpose
#MondayMotivation from our friends at Quickline Communications! 🙂
Thank you for your wonderful 40th birthday good wishes.📽️🙏
Proud of the difference we're making together through your Moving on Up and QFutures Funds. 🫶
#SYCF40 #40thanniversary #partnership #Quickline #communityimpact #socialvalue
💬 "Charitable projects like ours simply couldn’t survive without funders like SYCF standing alongside us."
Since 1987, St Vincent's Furniture Project has been transforming empty houses into safe, welcoming homes.
We're proud to have played a part in their success story 🫶
#SYCF40
An honour to support the launch of the Sheffield Pride of Place Prospectus 2025–2035 at the House of Lords. 🫶
Bringing business, voluntary + public sector leaders together to drive:
• Economic growth
• Social mobility
• Future ready infrastructure
🔗Learn more www.bitc.org.uk/place/sheffi...
BBC Sheffield's Make a Difference Awards 2026 are now open for entries.
You can nominate at www.bbc.co.uk/makeadifference by 31 March 2025 5pm.
🏆 Winners will be announced at the Make a Difference awards ceremony in September.
#BBCMakeADifference
Big thanks Chris Hanson and the fab team at Chef's Counter for this birthday message as we celebrate 40 years of community impact. We’re delighted to work with Chris on his Chef’s Counter Acorn Fund, supporting community food projects across South Yorkshire.
👉 Find out more lnkd.in/epPzthpA
⏳ Final call for entries: Community Celebration Awards 2026 🏆
📅 Deadline 28 February 2026
🌟 Barnsley Community Impact Award
🌟 Doncaster Community Impact Award
🌟 Rotherham Community Impact Award
🌟 Sheffield Community Impact Award
🔗 www.sycf.org.uk/about-us/com...
#southyorkshire #awards #SYCF40
Shining a spotlight on Sheffield Steelkings Para Ice Hockey Club 🏒
With £1,000 of funding from Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park Legacy Fund in partnership with SYCF, the club delivers the only weekly para ice hockey taster session of its kind in the UK.
#CommunityFunding #InclusiveSport #SYCF40
👏 A huge congratulations to our dedicated volunteer, Anne Dean, who is a finalist in the Sheffield Lord Mayor's Awards 2026.
She's honoured for nearly 40 years of voluntary service supporting grassroots causes and marginalised voices.💜
bit.ly/4bI45o6
#40yearsofgiving #volunteersmakeadifference
We've been nominated in 2 categories at the Yorkshire Choice Awards 2026! 🙌
💜SYCF: Charitable Excellence
💜Anne Dean: Volunteer of the Year
To support us, you can cast your vote online. ⬇️
yorkshirechoice.wufoo.com/forms/z1d7r7...
Voting closes on 1 March 2026. Thank you for your support. 🙏
A wonderful 40th birthday message from our friends at Worth Unlimited and Sew Mindful Crafts CIC to brighten up this grey day! 🌞
It’s a real privilege to support groups like this who are doing such vital work in communities across South Yorkshire💜
Thank you for being part of our story.
#SYCF40
Meet the Funder: Key Fund Investments
🗓 11 Feb 2026
📍Voluntary Action Sheffield
⏰ 10am–12 noon
Find out whether repayable finance is right for your organisation. Delivered in partnership with our SYFAB experts, VAS & Sheffield Social Enterprise Network
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-f...
Wonderful to see Sheffield Eagles Foundation's #walkingrugby sessions featured on BBC Yorkshire.🙂
🏈The group's been supported by grants from Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park's Legacy Fund, which is delivered in partnership with SYCF. More info ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#legacyfund #SYCF40
🔦 #FundingFriday spotlight on RWE Tween Bridge Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund.
🎯 Available to community groups within three miles of the Tween Bridge Wind Farm.
💷 Grants from £500–£7,500
Apply now! www.sycf.org.uk
Deadline 9am, Monday 16th February 2026.
#doncasterisgreat#sycf40 #40yearsofgiving
🎶 Thurcroft Welfare Brass Band was formed by the Miners Welfare Committee in the 1940s for Thurcroft Colliery workers and their families.
Funding has helped the group invest in new instruments, ensuring the band can play on and keep its history and heritage alive.
#40YearsOfGiving #SYCF40
40 years of community impact across South Yorkshire 💜
🎂Here, our trustee, Adrian Kirk, kicks off our birthday message series as we celebrate the milestone with some of the people who made it possible.
#thankyou #SYCF40 #40yearsofgiving #southyorkshire #ItsAGivingThing #CommunityImpact
Do you know a voluntary or community group making a difference in South Yorkshire?
To mark 40 years of South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF) in 2026, we’re inviting groups from across the region to enter our Community Celebration Awards. 🏆
www.sycf.org.uk/about-us/com... #SYCF40
Our January newsletter's out now! 🤗
4️⃣ 0️⃣ Celebrating our 40th year with a look back at 4 decades of giving!
🏆 How you can apply for our Community Celebration Awards.
🪡 Sew successful! The inspiring story of Fashion Fusion CIC
bit.ly/4b8A8gM
#SYCF40 #ItsAGivingThing
Brightening up Blue Monday by turning it into Brew Monday at BHP ☕
Fantastic to catch up with Suzy Harris-Milnes at BHP’s incredible new Sheffield city centre offices. 🌞
#BlueMonday #BrewMonday #SYCF40 #LegacyGiving #Philanthropy #SouthYorkshire
It's our 40th year 🥳 to celebrate we want to share more from some of the amazing groups we fund.🤩
First up: Thorne Countrywomen's Association which provides a vital lifeline for older women, many who live on their own or have disabilities.🫶
Learn more ⬇️
#SYCF40 #CommunityImpact #socialisolation
Our @syfab.bsky.social experts are delivering a series of sessions for groups in Doncaster in 2026.
From Meet the Funder events to free funding advice surgeries, there's a host of opportunities.
Booking info ⬇️
Community Celebration Awards open for nominations! 🎊🏆
To celebrate 4️⃣0️⃣ years of giving, we’re inviting voluntary and community not-for-profit groups from across the region who have been funded by SYCF to showcase their work by entering our awards! www.sycf.org.uk/about-us/com...
#SYCF40
🏆 Big night of awards ahead! We’re up for two regional awards!
⭐ Doncaster Chamber of Commerce Business Awards charity of the year
⭐unLTD Business Best Not For Profit or Social Enterprise
Good luck to all the nominees!
#awards #celebratingsuccess #SYCF #southyorkshire
💬 “This funding will help us continue delivering vital support and making a real difference.”
Find out how Rotherham group Better Today has been boosted by a £2,000 grant award from our South Yorkshire's Giving Network.
www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/...
#rotherhamiswonderful #SYGN #SYCF
🎱 Lovely to see The Stephen Harrison Snooker Academy featured in the latest issue of Community Connector.
The Academy has received funding from SYCF via the Legacy Fund to set up a group for 18-25 year olds with learning and physical disabilities.
issuu.com/sheffieldoly...
We're proud to stand with the sector in supporting Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2025.
Working together, we can #StopCharityFraud.
#CharityFraudAwarenessWeek #StopCharityFraud #Governance #Transparency
A warm welcome to Lina Abdelsalam who joins us from The University of Sheffield for a placement. Lina is a third-year medical student.
It's great to have you with us, Lina!
#volunteering #placement #workexperience #ItsAGivingThing
We’re excited to expand support for care leavers across Rotherham & Sheffield as part of the Care Leavers Programme! It's thanks to a new donation of £1.7m by the Henry Smith Foundation, announced by @ukcf.bsky.social 🎉
🔗 bit.ly/49Fw86y
#CommunityFoundations #CareLeavers #LocalImpact #SYCF
