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:
Better Working Lives at Sea
Year:
2022
Merchant Navy Welfare Board
Grant funding awarded to the UK Port Welfare Vehicle Replacement Project - an ongoing programme that ensures a vehicle replacement scheme for welfare organisations supporting seafarers around the coast of the UK.
Amount awarded: £31,000
International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network
Grant funding awarded to support SeafarerHelp - a free, confidential and multilingual helpline available to an estimated 1.6m International seafarers worldwide and their families, 24/7, 265 days per year.
Amount awarded: £112,000
Fishing into the Future
Grant funding awarded to support the salary of a full time programme manager to develop and lead a programme of activities to engage local grassroots fishers in the science of fishing and the co-management of fisheries to improve financial resilience of fishers.
Amount awarded: £42,000
Cornish Fish Producers Organisation
Grant funding awarded to support the production of The Fathom Podcast - the only specialist commercial fishing podcast in the UK which educates and informs working fishers on relevant and time-sensitive topics that impact their working lives.
Amount awarded: £21,000
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.
