Help us identify the needs of your community!

Who are South Yorkshire's Community Foundation?

For over 38 years, since 1986, South Yorkshire's Community Foundation has made grants of more than £37 million to community groups ,individuals, charities and organisations across all of South Yorkshire.

What is Vital Signs?

Understanding the needs of a community and the issues it faces is the first step to being able to solve them. This Vital Signs survey feeds into South Yorkshire's Community Foundation's Vital Signs research, a ‘health-check’ that identifies our community's hidden needs and priorities. Using this research, we can provide targeted intervention to tackle critical issues affecting our communities.

The survey will ask you questions based on ten different themes and we want to know how you perceive them in the context of your local area. Any time the survey asks you about your 'local area',  we are referring to the area in which you live, i.e. not extending beyond a distance you would comfortably walk or a short drive.

Data Privacy

• The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
• The survey will not ask you for any identifiable data and all answers provided will be anonymous. The data will be stored in line with General Data Protection Regulations.

To find out more about us, please visit our website: South Yorkshire's Community Foundation