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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Cobhair Bharraigh SCIO
Funding to support the delivery of services at Cobhair Bharriagh to improve the quality of life for elderly seafarers living with mental, physical or sensory impairment who are isolated, lonely or frail in the Western Isles, Scotland.
Amount awarded: £15,000
Age UK
Funding for continued support of the Age UK Telephone Friendship Service for retired Seafarers, formerly known as the Silver Line service.
Amount awarded: £27,000
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO)
Multi-year, co-funding application to employ a dedicated Welfare Officer for three years to aid fishers in need of health & wellbeing, financial or legal support, and to promote programmes that will increase resilience in those areas. Generously co-funded over three years by the Fishmonger's Company's Charitable Trust and the Marine Management Organisation's Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS).
Amount awarded: £14,800
Nautilus Welfare Fund (NWF)
Funding to support a top-up in care home fees for retired mariners residing at Mariners' Park in Wallasey, plus continued support for a part-time physiotherapist.
Amount awarded: £106,200
Scottish Nautical Welfare Society (SNWS)
Funding to support quarterly grants to SNWS's beneficiaries, plus a contribution towards welfare/running costs.
Amount awarded: £53,000
Nautilus Welfare Fund
Funding the costs of two case worker posts in Hull and Portsmouth/Southampton area from December 2023 until March 2024 to assist retired and needy seafarers and their dependents to access financial, health, and social care services.
Amount awarded: £18,926
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.
