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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Naval Children’s Charity
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the Naval Children's Charity assist the children of Officers, widowers, and families in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Amount awarded: £100,000
Nautilus Welfare Fund
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support a top-up in care home fees for mariners residing at Mariners Park, Wallasey and support a part-time physiotherapist post.
Amount awarded: £172,370
Age UK
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Merchant Navy Fund to provide and sustain Seafarers Group Telephone Friendship calls which reduce loneliness and isolation, improve wellbeing, and provide older Seafarers with the opportunity to link up with others from their communities.
Amount awarded: £27,000
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support welfare work for seafarers visiting ports in Africa (Lagos, Nigeria; Mombasa, Kenya; Richards Bay, Durban, Saldanha Bay, Cape Town & Port Elizabeth; South Africa; Walvis Bay, Namibia).
Amount awarded: £31,980
Islay & Jura Community Enterprises Ltd
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to deliver services and activities which support current and retired seafarers, families and dependents on the Scottish Hebridean islands of Islay & Jura to improve mental and physical health and wellbeing and safety at sea.
Amount awarded: £9,995
International Maritime Health Foundation (IMHF)
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the creation of an additional Magazine Section in the 'International Maritime Health' scientific journal. The theme of this segment relates to the health and wellbeing of active seafarers.
Amount awarded: £19,000
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.
