Local community groups set to bring in Queen’s Jubilee with style thanks to funding

Community groups across South Yorkshire are set to benefit from over £113,000 funding from South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation (SYCF) to deliver creative and cultural celebrations for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee taking place next week.

Made possible thanks to National Lottery players, the Let’s Create Jubilee Fund is designed to help voluntary and community organisations develop events to celebrate Her Majesty’s landmark occasion.

As one of forty-seven Community Foundations awarding grants across the country on behalf of Arts Council England, through UK Community Foundations, SYCF gave funding to twenty-nine groups across the region.

One of those groups is Nayi Zindagi from Rotherham, who will be delivering a Bollywood performance that aims to bring attention to marginalised groups within ethnic communities.

Rziah Asif, Managing Director at Nayi Zindagi, said: “We are blessed to have received the Jubilee fund as this will help us to bring the most vulnerable people in our community together to celebrate in an innovative way. We are working on a Bollywood performance to deliver to our community, it is a fantastic workout with a feel-good factor and a great way to make friends and socialise.”

Ruth Willis, Chief Executive at SYCF, said: “Through the interest received for this funding and the successful applications, there is a clear excitement from community groups across the region in wanting to deliver the most colourful, creative and fun activities befitting of the historic landmark of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.”

HM Queen Elizabeth II is the first monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, having overtaken Queen Victoria as the longest reigning monarch in 2015.  Her reign has been marked by a commitment to public service, reflected by her extensive programme of engagements at home and abroad, and support for over 600 cultural organisations, charities, military associations, professional bodies and public service organisations.

You can find a total list of activities taking place, funding by SYCF in South Yorkshire, on our website: https://bit.ly/SYCFJubileeList