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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Marine Society and Sea Cadets
Grant funding was awarded in 2022 for Phase 2 of the Marine Engineering Pathway Project, supporting the development of nationwide engineering skills for young people over a six-year programme.
Amount awarded: £11,187
Lighthouse Seafarers’ Mission
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the salary costs for 12 months of an additional 1.5 FTE staff at the Lighthouse Seafarers Mission in the Falklands. This will enable greater amounts of time to be spent with seafarers - interacting with them more often and as required. It will also allow for additional staff training to enable improved responses to the needs of seafarers, and a greater number of ship visits to take place. In addition, with the many Ukraine and Russian nationals coming into the Port, the workload has increased to care for their needs.
Amount awarded: £40,000
Felixstowe & Haven Ports Seafarers Service
Financial support to cover shortfall caused by Covid-19 restricting access to shore leave and visits
to the seafarer centre, thereby reducing Centre's ability to generate income from sales.
Amount awarded: £63,800
Port of Bristol Seafarers’ Centre
Grant funding awarded to provide support and services to seafarers visiting the ports of Portbury and Avonmouth.
Amount awarded: £25,000
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
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.
