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Sheffield charities
1,320 charities and community organisations registered in Sheffield. Search by what they do, where they work and how big they are.
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Charity details come from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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National Lottery grant database
Lottery money in Sheffield
Every National Lottery distributor files its awards in one government database. Sheffield has had 8,588 awards worth £629.1m since 1995, from the Community Fund and its predecessors, Arts Council England, Sport England, UK Sport, the Heritage Fund, the BFI and the Millennium Commission. Awards to individuals (3,057 of them, mostly athlete performance awards filed at the English Institute of Sport in Darnall) are counted but never named.
- Awards since 1995
- 8,588
- Awarded in total
- £629.1m
- Awards to organisations, last 12 months
- 225
- Awarded to organisations, last 12 months
- £20.6m
By good cause: Community, health, education and environment £197.6m (2,844 awards); Sport £228.1m (3,332 awards); Arts £110.9m (2,024 awards); Heritage £67.7m (369 awards); Millennium projects £24.7m (19 awards).
Wards with the most Lottery money: City (£227.0m), Darnall (£198.6m), Broomhill and Sharrow Vale (£43.2m). Each area page carries its own ward's figures.
Newest awards to Sheffield organisations
- Green City Action £20,000
- Friends of Firth Park £19,994
- JUDOOR & JUSOOR (J&J) CIC £20,000
- Tinsley Community Allotment £20,000
- FILMFAM CIC £19,870
- South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority £531,045The woodlands of South Yorkshire are vital habitats for rare and specialist species in a densely populated region. They are also deeply entwined with local heritage and culture, from prehistory to…
- The Counselling and Therapy Hub CIC £20,000
- High Green Development Trust Limited £18,000
- Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra £6,062
- Roots Mbili Theatre £250,000
- Create Sheffield £70,000
- Voluntary Action Sheffield £358,723
National Lottery grant data from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Open Government Licence v3.0. Checked 27 Oct 2026. National Lottery grant database · Sheffield export (CSV) · All data sources
360Giving Data Registry
Independent trusts' grants in Sheffield
Six independent trusts publish every grant they make in the 360Giving Data Standard. Between them they have filed 486 grants worth £21.7m to 257 Sheffield organisations since 2003. A grant counts here when the recipient is a Sheffield charity on this site, has a Sheffield postcode, names Sheffield as its town or where the money is spent, or carries Sheffield in its name. These are past awards, not funding open to apply for.
6 more grants, worth £945,188 between them, were spent across Sheffield and other places; they are listed but not counted in the figures.
- Grants to Sheffield
- 486
- Awarded in total
- £21.7m
- Organisations funded
- 257
- Trusts
- 6
By trust: Garfield Weston Foundation £6.1m (188 grants); Esmée Fairbairn Foundation £8.3m (86 grants); Paul Hamlyn Foundation £4.4m (51 grants); Youth Music £680,193 (14 grants); The Foyle Foundation £1.6m (138 grants); Architectural Heritage Fund £745,658 (9 grants).
Largest grants
- Harmony Works Trust £1.0m
- Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust £940,000Land Purchase Facility transaction for Ughill Hall Farm
- YMCA White Rose £800,000A grant to YMCA White Rose for Right Here: Sheffield Pilot Site
- Sheffield Theatres Trust £702,400Weston Culture Fund
- Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust £515,000An investment in the purchase of Greno Woods.
Newest grants
- Sheffield Working Women's Opportunities Project £35,000
- The Parson Cross Community Development Forum £10,000
- The University of Sheffield £10,000a TASK fund donation towards bird population studies on Skomer
- Snowdrop Project £60,000
- Sheffield Community Media Limited £15,000
- Sheffield Wildlife Trust £10,000
- Stand As One £3,000
- Manor Community Transport £3,000
- Heeley City Farm £80,000
- Edale Village Hall and Playing Field £5,000
- S1 Artspace £95,983
- Support Dogs £150,000
Grants data published in the 360Giving Data Standard by Garfield Weston Foundation, CC BY 4.0 (dataset); Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, CC BY 4.0 (dataset); Paul Hamlyn Foundation, CC BY 4.0 (dataset); Youth Music, CC BY 4.0 (dataset); The Foyle Foundation, CC BY 4.0 (dataset); Architectural Heritage Fund, CC0 1.0 (dataset). Checked 26 Oct 2026. 360Giving Data Registry · All data sources