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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Wilson's Mariners' Homes
Funding to provide energy efficient glazing to seafarers alms-house dwellings to improve the quality of life for their resident seafarers, wives, widows and dependants.
Amount awarded: £30,955
Not Forgotten Association
Funding to provide entertainment, activities and sporting challenges for seafaring veterans in order to promote a sense of community, improve physical and mental health, and address isolation and loneliness.
Amount awarded: £8,000
Bravehound
Request to fund training and support costs for eight vulnerable Royal Navy veterans and their BRAVEHOUND Assistance Dogs including puppy training, transport, out-door activities, and comradeship activities.
Amount awarded: £15,000
Merchant Navy Association
Contribution to the annual multi-faith Merchant Navy Day Commemorative Service and Reunion at the Merchant Navy Memorial in Trinity Square Gardens, London.
Amount awarded: £2,000
Safer Waves
Grant to support the core costs of providing services to merchant seafarers who have experienced sexual harassment, gender discrimination or sexual assault while working at sea.
Amount awarded: £6,000
Cornwall Community Development Ltd
A grant awarded in 2022, to fund an innovative UK-wide research project on fishers' mental health - the first national assessment of its kind.
Amount awarded: £6,500
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.
