In 2024, The Seafarers’ Charity awarded £2.6m through 64 grants to 48 organisations supporting seafarers in need and their families.
Our grant funding supports frontline organisations and projects that provide essential help for seafarers and their families in crisis. Each grant application is assessed against our core goals to ensure the support provided to ensure that your donations go to where the need is greatest.
See the below list to find grants awarded in the last three years.
Does your organisation or project work to provide support for seafarers in need and their families? See if you’re eligible for a grant to help you.
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University of Surrey
Funding for a study, supported by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), to demonstrate the potential for glycaemic control in seafarers, using continuous glucose monitoring systems to help them decide and adjust their insulin requirements and carbohydrate intake at sea and on land.
Amount awarded: £40,267
Veterans Outreach Support
Funding to support mental health, wellbeing, and welfare services for seafaring Armed Forces and Merchant Navy veterans and their families across Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Gosport and in wider Hampshire.
Amount awarded: £15,000
Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Funding for the continuation of regular grants to 55 beneficiaries, to mitigate the increased cost-of-living and for a contribution towards the welfare costs to improve their quality of life, by maintaining regular personal contact through social interaction.
Amount awarded: £60,000
Fishing Into the Future
Funding to develop a funding strategy, improve fundraising processes, develop a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact framework (MEI), and enhance the governance potential to drive operational growth.
Amount awarded: £45,000
Institute for Human Rights & Business
Funding for a two-year project to collectively advocate for the eradication of illegal seafarer recruitment fees – including advocacy, guidance and awareness-raising.
Amount awarded: £64,062
Seafood Cornwall Training Ltd
Funding for a programme of safety interventions, face-to-face and on the quayside, in fishing communities around the Southwest of England, with the aim of reducing preventable incidents and accidents.
Amount awarded: £15,000
We're committed to transparency
The Seafarers’ Charity is committed to transparency and we work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants. See our Publisher profile on 360Giving, where you will be able to download grants awarded since 2017.
