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.
Categories:
Enhanced Financial Resilience
Year:
2022
University of Bristol - Personal Finance Research Centre
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to explore issues relating to seafarers with gambling problems in order to produce a short practical guide containing support for seafarers and their families impacted by gambling.
Amount awarded: £8,100
Sailors' Children's Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Merchant Navy Fund and The Sefarers' Charity's main grants programme to support children from Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet families living in poverty with regular grants for food and heating or children's activities along with clothing grants and respite breaks.
Amount awarded: £70,000
Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to help the Royal Liverpool Seafarers Orphans Institution deliver a meaningful and sustainable level of support packages to the sons and daughters of deceased merchant seafarers and fishers.
Amount awarded: £70,000
The Officers' Association
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to provide welfare grant payments to Royal Navy Officers and widows as well as a top-up of the grant fund for midshipmen. The grant will also provide a 20% contribution towards the core costs of delivering a case working service to support beneficiaries.
Amount awarded: £50,000
Mortrans Welfare Fund
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to provide a fund for individual hardship grants to support the seafarer members and their families of the Marine Transport Workers Trade Union of Ukraine who have been displaced from their homes or otherwise impacted by the crisis in Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £58,700
Mortrans Welfare Fund
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to provide additional funding for Ukrainian port workers impacted by the ongoing war. These funds will be used to supply key necessities such as shelter, food, water, transport and medical resources.
Amount awarded: £9,500
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.
