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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Stella Maris
To support Stella Maris’ welfare ship-visiting programme for seafarers and fishers across British ports as its services return to full capacity following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amount awarded: £130,000
Mission to Seafarers
Contribution funding to develop The Mission to Seafarers App, estimated to reach 35,000 seafarers internationally, to enable seafarers to the Chat to a Chaplain service, and many other welfare services while at sea or on land.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Stella Maris
Grant to maintain and develop operational capacity to deliver welfare services to seafarers arriving in the ports of Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Richards Bay in South Africa.
Amount awarded: £35,000
Sailors' Society
A grant awarded to deliver Chaplaincy Port Outreach welfare services in Scottish ports. This involves providing counselling for physical, mental health, emotional and spiritual wellbeing and linking to the International Crisis Response Network.
Amount awarded: £70,000
Mission to Seafarers
Emergency funding to support the welfare needs of seafarers at ports in Africa and the Pacific severely affected by COVID-19. The ports include: Walvis Bay, Namibia; Durban, S Africa; Mombasa, Kenya; Tahiti, Solomon Island; Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea.
Amount awarded: £35,300
Merchant Navy Welfare Board
International Port Welfare Partnership: the next stage of a MNWB & ISWAN collaborative partnership project which aims to encourage & facilitate the creation of welfare boards that bring the maritime community together to work in partnership.
Amount awarded: £70,758
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.
