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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Safer Waves

Funding to provide an email support service to merchant seafarers who have experienced sexual harassment, gender discrimination or sexual assault while working at sea.

Amount awarded: £5,800

Mission to Seafarers (Scotland)

Funding to deliver Christmas presents to 200 seafarers in Scottish ports in December 2021.

Amount awarded: £990

Mission to Seafarers

A grant awarded for 2022 core funding to support post-COVID-19 re-opening of seafarer centres and delivery of welfare services to seafarers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Amount awarded: £90,000

International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network

A grant awarded from the Seafarers International Relief Fund for financial hardship grants to Filipino seafarers and their dependants, as well as next of kin of deceased seafarers, who are impacted by COVID-19 in the Philippines.

Amount awarded: £95,000

Greenwich Citizens Advice Bureau Limited

Funding to support the Seafarers Advice & Information Line to provide a free Citizens Advice Bureau telephone advice service to fishers and merchant seafarers.

Amount awarded: £153,615

Felixstowe & Haven Ports Seafarers Service

Financial support to cover shortfall caused by COVID-19 restricting access to shore leave and visits to the seafarer centre, thereby reducing Centre's ability to generate income from sales.

Amount awarded: £50,000

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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.

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