SOUTH YORKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1140947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The support of local communities through the distribution of grant funding. To promote community philanthropy and provide a service to donors, philanthropists, businesses, statutory bodies and trusts who wish to support their local community.Our vision is to improve the lives of local people and build stronger communities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £529,011, which is above the trustees' stated target of £350,000. The charity reported a net increase in funds of £57,648 for the year, driven by investment gains of £509,530, despite a structural deficit in its operational account.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shorts Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07545536

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Yorkshire's Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Henry Boot Grassroots Endowment Fund for South Yorkshire — “The organisation’s Youth Partnership received grant funding of £1,100 from the Henry Boot Grassroots Endowment Fund for South Yorkshire to r…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PRICE, David John — director, appointed 26/11/2024on trustee list
• KIRK, Adrian Christopher — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• GAVIN, Laurence Michael — director, appointed 24/04/2024on trustee list
• WHITEHEAD, Guy Christopher — director, appointed 12/04/2024on trustee list
• RAY, Jaydip, Professor — director, appointed 22/03/2024on trustee list
• AKEROYD, David George — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• GILL, Julie — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• LITTLEWOOD, Darren Louis — director, appointed 15/11/2023on trustee list
• O'NEILL, Carole — director, appointed 06/02/2023on trustee list
• BAILEY, Tim Charles — director, appointed 01/02/2023on trustee list
• PIKE, Nicholas James — director, appointed 01/12/2022on trustee list
• CLARKE-BROWN, Victoria Mary — director, appointed 20/05/2021on trustee list
• BOOTH-MAYBLIN, Christine Janet, Professor — director, appointed 20/05/2021on trustee list
• ROSS, Martin — director, appointed 01/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Christine Janet Booth-Mayblinchair
• Adrian Christopher Kirk
• Alex William Pettifer MBE
• Carole O'Neill
• Darren Louis Littlewood
• David George Akeroyd
• David John Price
• Guy Christopher Whitehead
• Julie Gill
• Laurence Michael Gavin
• MARTIN ROSS
• Nicholas James Pike
• Professor Jaydip Ray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tim Charles Bailey
• Victoria Mary Clarke-Brown

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.5m
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY income £4.0m
• DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £11.5m
• HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £656k
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FOR LANCASHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

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