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.
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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
Felixstowe Unit of the 478 of the Sea Cadet Corps
Funding to provide Sea Cadets in Felixstowe with a safe, modern and inspiring home and training centre to learn, grow and thrive, while creating a lasting resource for the whole community.
Amount awarded: £5,000
World Maritime University
Funding for research into actionable recommendations that can strengthen the global response to seafarer abandonment, addressing implementation challenges, with a focus on major labour-supplying countries.
Amount awarded: £75,000
University of Surrey
Funding for a study, supported by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), to demonstrate the potential for glycaemic control in seafarers, using continuous glucose monitoring systems to help them decide and adjust their insulin requirements and carbohydrate intake at sea and on land.
Amount awarded: £40,267
Veterans Outreach Support
Funding to support mental health, wellbeing, and welfare services for seafaring Armed Forces and Merchant Navy veterans and their families across Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Gosport and in wider Hampshire.
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.
