In 2023, The Seafarers’ Charity awarded £2.4m in grants to 50 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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Befrienders Worldwide
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to deliver emotional support to seafarers via the Befrienders network, whose aim is to assist member Centres (e.g. Samaritans) in providing appropriate emotional support services for people who are suicidal and/or in distress.
Amount awarded: £31,000
Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers Organisation (ANIFPO)
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to improve safety management systems and legal compliance onboard 30 fishing vessels in the fleet, while providing benefits, learning, tools and resources to the wider fishing fleet in Northern Ireland.
Amount awarded: £35,000
Age UK Wirral
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the wellbeing of residents at Mariners Park, Wallasey through assisting older resident seafarers to utilise IT to maintain connections with family and friends.
Amount awarded: £22,700
Aberdeen Seafarer's Centre
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to cover temporary accommodation costs for single male seafarers from Ukraine who are on 5 week rest break from working at sea and do not want to return to Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £10,000
The Money Charity
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to develop and deliver a new financial capability webinar for caseworkers, support workers, and volunteers supporting the financial resilience of UK merchant seafarers.
Amount awarded: £5,100
Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society
Grant funding awarded to contribute towards the long-term provision of regular grants to retired seafarers in financial need (and those unable to work), which delivers a modest but proportionately significant uplift in their income.
Amount awarded: £75,000
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.
