South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue is committed to providing fit for purpose training and development opportunities and facilities for all its staff. The training function provides the principal resources to facilitate core, safety-critical areas of training during the initial or maintenance phases of a service member's career.

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue’s main training facilities are located at the Training & Development Centre at Handsworth in Sheffield. Facilities at TDC include fully equipped lecture rooms, an ICT suite, fire training ground, state of the art Realistic Fire Training Building (RFTB), appliance driver training facilities, Incident Command Suite and supporting en-suite accommodation facilities.

TDC operates over a five day week. This assists in aligning the annual course programme to the Watch Duty system operated on fire stations.

SYFR Training & Development Centre 
Beaver Hill Rd
Handsworth
Sheffield
S13 9QA

Tel: 0114 269 2230

Group Manager Darren Staniland 
Head of Service Training & Development
07768 418022 
dstaniland@syfire.gov.uk

The Training Centre meets the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and accommodates all Equality and Diversity requests. The Centre delivers over 6,000 training days each financial year, and has received accreditation status including ISO 9001:2008, NVQs, NEBOSH and BTEC.

SYFR has a number of satellite facilities to support training needs including Maltby Colliery, Rother Valley and the National Water Sports Centre at Nottingham.