Thirty community organisations who help local residents and patients to keep fit and well have received a cash injection, thanks to £77,000 of funding from a Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire based hospital charity.
Local charity and voluntary sector organisations had to apply for a share of the money up for grabs from the Your Hearts and Minds Charity, which is run by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH). The £77,000 marks 77 years of the NHS.
67 organisations bid for a share of the money, with 30 being chosen after an extremely rigorous marking process.
Your Hearts and Minds community grants 2025
The successful bids were from:
Rotherham
- Making Space: Carer’s wellbeing project.
- Puzzled Training Community Interest Company (CIC): Empowering futures.
- Memo Fitness: Wellbeing walk and talk club.
- Hand in Hand with Dementia: Feel good Friday.
- Rotherham United Community Trust: Mind over matter.
- S62 Community Together Rotherham Community Interest Company (CIC): Feeding our community.
- Rotherham Parent Forum: Swimming for children and young people with a disability and additional needs.
- Rush House: Life skills workshops.
Doncaster
- Doncaster Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service (DRASACS): Children and young people’s counselling service support.
- The Alcohol and Drug Service (ADS): Basic provisions for outreach clients.
- Totem Trilogy Community Interest Company (CIC): Best version of you.
- The Memory Club: Community sensory garden.
- Dice Enterprise: Wellbeing through community.
- Worth Unlimited: Mentoring Programme, Stainforth.
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary School: Special educational needs (SEN) therapy equipment for neurodivergent children.
- Fun filled Days Community Interest Company (CIC): Feeling good, feeling great.
- Changing Lives: Homeless health from the feet up.
- Better You Social Enterprise: Better you cafe.
- He Matters (Healthy He): Developing a group for supporting Muslim mental health for men.
- Lakeside Community Group: Choose kindness art club.
- Therapy Dogs Nationwide: Expanding therapy dogs visits across RDaSH.
North Lincolnshire
- Cafe Indie: Horizons.
- Iron Foundation: Iron hub community space.
- The Togetherness Choir: Dementia choir.
- Luddington Village Hall: Makaton for more.
- North Lincolnshire Sanctuary Group: Empowering resettlement communities for better health.
- Oasis Hub Henderson Avenue: Let’s talk about grief café and awareness group.
- Alzheimer’s Society, Brain Health: Making a difference for those with mild cognitive impairment, collaborating with GP surgeries.
- Humber and Wolds Rural Action: Voluntary car service.
- South Killinghome New Projects Committee: Women’s wellness course.
Joanne McDonough, Director of Strategy at RDaSH, who manages the fundraising team, said: “The aim of the charity is to make a difference across all of the communities we serve, and there is no better way than to support local voluntary and charity organisations to enable them to keep on doing the great work that they do.
“These charities also help to support our patients, helping them to keep well, and this is a way of thanking them for their incredible work.
“Our charity raises funds to support activities, projects, education and research which go above and beyond normal NHS funding to improve the care and experience of patients,” added Joanne.
Anyone wanting to donate can visit our donation page.
Published: April 01, 2025