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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The Fishmongers' Company's Fisheries Charitable Trust (FCFCT)
Match funding to help restore the marine environment and provide alternative at-sea livelihoods for fishers impacted by the mass crustacean die-off event in the northeast of England, and in doing so, prevent future hardship within the local community.
Amount awarded: £24,000
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariner's Royal Benevolent Society
Grant funding contribution towards long term bi-annual grant payments to regular beneficiaries who are retired mariners or those unable to work and living on a low income.
Amount awarded: £50,000
Greenwich Citizens Advice Bureau Limited
Co-funding to support the Seafarers Advice and Information Line (SAIL) to provide a Citizens Advice service to seafarers and their dependents in the UK.
Amount awarded: £156,870
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariner's Royal Benevolent Society
The provision of a top up fund to support emergency grants to merchant seafarers and their dependents in real poverty but who do not fit within the charity's eligibility criteria of 10 years’ service at sea
Amount awarded: £15,000
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Additional grant funding for ISWAN's Seafarers' Crisis Hardship Fund to provide hardship grants to seafarers and their families who have been impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £100,000
Fishermen's Mission
Grant to fund a restricted North East Hardship Fund which can be used to award hardship grants to commercial fishers in the north east of England whose livelihoods have been impacted by the unexplained deaths of lobster and crab stocks.
Amount awarded: £10,000
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.
