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:
Improved Health and Wellbeing
Year:
2022
Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to provide discounted holiday accommodation for the health and well-being of seafarers, their families and dependants.
Amount awarded: £1,000
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 continue to be used to supply key necessities, such as shelter, food, water, transport, and medical resources.
Amount awarded: £7,260
Stella Maris
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to provide temporary safe accommodation and psycho-social support to initially support 44 Ukrainian seafarers and their families seeking refuge in Poland and to also provide each family/seafarer with a practical 'arrival' pack of basics needed.
Amount awarded: £84,700
The Hinge Centre
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to fund a 12-month pilot project to identify, design, and deliver support to seafarers and their dependents in Bridlington.
Amount awarded: £9,950
Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support regular quarterly grants to 52 beneficiaries, at an increased rate to mitigate the rising costs of living, plus a contribution towards the charity's core costs.
Amount awarded: £59,000
Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the core costs of providing accommodation and welfare support for active and retired seafarers and their dependents at the hostel at East India Dock Road, in London's former docklands.
Amount awarded: £45,000
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.
