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.
Categories:
Enhanced Financial Resilience
Year:
2021
Naval Children's Fund
Welfare support for Officers' children, and bereaved children of seafarers who work in the Royal Naval Service: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and their Reserves.
Amount awarded: £100,000
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Funding for the Seafarers Emergency Fund (SEF) which provides immediate, essential aid to seafarers and families of seafarers, who are directly involved in sudden or unforeseen crises, including COVID-19 cases and welfare issues
Amount awarded: £75,000
The Money Charity
To develop and deliver a financial capability training course for fishers and a webinar on financial capability for financial 'champions' within fishing communities across the UK which will empower them to support fishing families.
Amount awarded: £8,760
The Money Charity
An additional grant to cover payment for further costs incurred in completing the development of a financial capability training course and webinar to enhance the financial resilience of fishers.
Amount awarded: £2,200
South Devon and Channel Shellfishermen Ltd
Grant support for one year for the salary of the co-operative's Executive Officer who delivers a range of services to support and connect shell fishermen in the South Devon and Channel area.
Amount awarded: £25,000
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariner's Royal Benevolent Society
The provision of a top-up fund to support emergency grants to those Merchant Navy seafarers and their dependants in real poverty, but who do not fit within the organisations' set criteria (e.g. 10 years' sea service).
Amount awarded: £15,000
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.
