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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Global Maritime Forum
The project "Charting Change: From Stories to Safer Seas" aims to develop a digital campaign to collect personal stories and raise awareness about the issue of sexual misconduct at sea. The stories and data collected will provide an evidence base for the development of a standardised global maritime framework for identifying, responding to, and sanctioning sexual misconduct at sea.
Amount awarded: £67,400
The Mission to Seafarers
Funding to establish a dual-role Welfare Officer in Chennai, India to deliver a pilot programme providing welfare support to over 6,000 visiting seafarers annually. They will also provide a series of wellbeing seminars, suicide prevention training sessions, and a one-to-one mentoring support programme to 600+ maritime cadets.
Amount awarded: £30,000
The Nautical Institute
Funding for a series of 15-minute podcasts with industry thought leaders, focusing on the themes of leadership and development, and examining the role these play in assisting the wellbeing of maritime professionals.
Amount awarded: £10,000
The Nautical Institute
Funding for the creation and distribution of Lifeboat Safety Guidelines to improve overall lifeboat safety and reduce accidents at sea.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Whitby & District Fishing Industry Training School Limited
Funding to train experienced fishers to qualify to be trainers themselves to deliver maritime safety training to apprentices.
Amount awarded: £12,526
Nautilus Welfare Fund
Funding towards the running costs of Mariners’ Park, a 36-bed care home and dementia unit that supports a total of 220 former Merchant Navy residents across the Care Home and 149 properties on the estate.
Amount awarded: £132,000
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.
