In 2024, The Seafarers’ Charity awarded £2.6m through 64 grants to 48 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.
Categories:
Increased Social Justice
Year:
2025
Seafarers Hospital Society
Funding to support 30 potentially neurodivergent seafarers in accessing a formal diagnosis, through a grant-making scheme that includes private assessment and travel costs.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Global Maritime Forum
The project "Charting Change: From Stories to Safer Seas" aims to develop a digital campaign to collect personal stories and raise awareness about the issue of sexual misconduct at sea. The stories and data collected will provide an evidence base for the development of a standardised global maritime framework for identifying, responding to, and sanctioning sexual misconduct at sea.
Amount awarded: £67,400
World Maritime University
Funding for research into actionable recommendations that can strengthen the global response to seafarer abandonment, addressing implementation challenges, with a focus on major labour-supplying countries.
Amount awarded: £75,000
Institute for Human Rights & Business
Funding for a two-year project to collectively advocate for the eradication of illegal seafarer recruitment fees – including advocacy, guidance and awareness-raising.
Amount awarded: £64,062
The Nautical Institute
Continued funding for the Bursary Scheme created in 2024 for seafarers from low GDP countries to attend The Nautical Institute’s Leadership & Management training courses which are aimed at addressing toxic leadership within the maritime industry.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Seafarers Hospital Society (for NeurodiversAtSea)
Funding to support 10-12 potential neurodivergent seafarers in accessing a formal diagnosis, through a pilot grant making scheme that includes private assessment, and travel costs.
Amount awarded: £9,761
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.
