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.
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Sailors' Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to facilitate the Crisis Response Network: a free global service run by 37 trained crisis responders who support seafarers and their families during traumatic incidents such as piracy, abandonment and natural disasters.
Amount awarded: £106,500
Sailors' Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the core costs of this charity who have a global network of chaplains in 87 international ports supporting seafarers, as well as a range of wellbeing Apps and a Crisis Response Network.
Amount awarded: £81,000
National Non-Sector Organisation
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to provide start-up costs for representative body and legal advice service for inshore fleet of small-scale fishers.
Amount awarded: £15,000
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support consolidating and strengthening welfare services for seafarers at ports and at sea.
Amount awarded: £100,000
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to fund the necessary improvements to the Chat to a Chaplain service for seafarer, which was originated in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Amount awarded: £22,860
Merchant Navy Welfare Board
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to continue funding the UK Port Welfare MiFi Partnership Project.
Amount awarded: £4,500
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.