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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The Fishmongers' Company's Fisheries Charitable Trust (FCFCT)
Match funding to help restore the marine environment and provide alternative at-sea livelihoods for fishers impacted by the mass crustacean die-off event in the northeast of England, and in doing so, prevent future hardship within the local community.
Amount awarded: £24,000
Cornwall Community Development Ltd (CCDL)
Funding for a part time Animateur to support North Norfolk Fishermen's Society to develop grant funding bids for their members.
Amount awarded: £7,995
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
Mission to Seafarers
To support:
- A food ingredients programme in Thoothukudi in Southern India, where many seafarers have been experiencing difficulty in taking up new employment contracts, causing severe financial difficulties.
- 1,950 families were helped through the programme, or almost 12,000 individuals in total.
Amount awarded: £43,500
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariner's Royal Benevolent Society
Grant funding contribution towards long term bi-annual grant payments to regular beneficiaries who are retired mariners or those unable to work and living on a low income.
Amount awarded: £50,000
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations
Grant funding for the production of 3 fishing safety focused films.
Amount awarded: £14,000
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.
