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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UK Sailing Academy
Funding for a Repayable Bursary Fund to remove financial barriers for people from disadvantaged backgrounds to access accredited maritime training, covering essential costs and repaid once participants are in work.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Seafarers Hospital Society
Funding to support 30 potentially neurodivergent seafarers in accessing a formal diagnosis, through a grant-making scheme that includes private assessment and travel costs.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Sailors' Society
Funding to improve operational effectiveness, strategic insight, and duty of care through evaluation, impact measurement, data analysis, digital innovation, capacity building, and best-practice data management to enhance global collaboration and service delivery to seafarers.
Amount awarded: £80,000
Sailors' Society
Funding to support the Crisis Response Network, a free 24/7 365-day service supporting seafarers following critical incidents e.g. accidents, contract issues, imprisonment, missing persons, piracy, shipwreck etc.
Amount awarded: £99,500
QVSR
The funding will help provide accommodation for active and retired seafarers and assist with their welfare by working with external specialist services and organisations to provide practical, emotional and pastoral support. The funding will also enable the QVSR Felixstowe team to upgrade a boiler and purchase a new air hockey table.
Amount awarded: £50,000
The Fishermen's Mission
Funding for the ongoing provision of the Emergency and Welfare Outreach Services for active and former fishers, their families/widows, and migrant fishers through financial, pastoral, bereavement, physical and mental health support.
Amount awarded: £120,000
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.
