In 2025, The Seafarers’ Charity awarded over £2.7m through 60 grants to 53 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 Nautical Institute
Funding for a series of 15-minute podcasts with industry thought leaders, focusing on the themes of leadership and development, and examining the role these play in assisting the wellbeing of maritime professionals.
Amount awarded: £10,000
The Nautical Institute
Funding for the creation and distribution of Lifeboat Safety Guidelines to improve overall lifeboat safety and reduce accidents at sea.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Whitby & District Fishing Industry Training School Limited
Funding to train experienced fishers to qualify to be trainers themselves to deliver maritime safety training to apprentices.
Amount awarded: £12,526
Nautilus Welfare Fund
Funding towards the running costs of Mariners’ Park, a 36-bed care home and dementia unit that supports a total of 220 former Merchant Navy residents across the Care Home and 149 properties on the estate.
Amount awarded: £132,000
Islay & Jura Community Enterprises
Funding to enhance health and wellbeing for current and retired seafarers, fishers, and their families and dependents on the Scottish Hebridean islands of Islay and Jura, while also improving safety standards and practices among current seafarers.
Amount awarded: £12,996
Cobhair Bharraigh
Funding to provide opportunities for social interaction, maintenance of essential life skills and provide person-centred care activities at the Day Centre with a base for carers to receive support in their caring roles, alleviating isolation for veterans.
Amount awarded: £18,000
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.
