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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Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Funding for the continuation of regular grants to 55 beneficiaries, to mitigate the increased cost-of-living and for a contribution towards the welfare costs to improve their quality of life, by maintaining regular personal contact through social interaction.
Amount awarded: £60,000
Fishing Into the Future
Funding to develop a funding strategy, improve fundraising processes, develop a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact framework (MEI), and enhance the governance potential to drive operational growth.
Amount awarded: £45,000
Institute for Human Rights & Business
Funding for a two-year project to collectively advocate for the eradication of illegal seafarer recruitment fees – including advocacy, guidance and awareness-raising.
Amount awarded: £64,062
Seafood Cornwall Training Ltd
Funding for a programme of safety interventions, face-to-face and on the quayside, in fishing communities around the Southwest of England, with the aim of reducing preventable incidents and accidents.
Amount awarded: £15,000
Cornish Fish Producers Organisation
Funding to support the Young Fishermen’s Network (YFN) which is leading the charge in recruiting, developing, and retaining the next generation of fishers, with the strategic goal to secure the future of the industry. With a strong focus on youth engagement and leadership, YFN is dedicated to promoting fishing as a viable, sustainable career while ensuring that young fishers have a voice in shaping the sector’s future.
Amount awarded: £37,102
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children's Fund (Naval Children’s Charity)
Multi-year funding (over 3 years) for the expansion of delivery of financial and holistic support in Scotland to families, children and young people both in crisis and those affected by the challenges they face as a result of being from a Royal Navy family.
Amount awarded: £17,500
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.
