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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Shipwrecked Mariners' Society
Grant funding contribution towards long term bi-annual grant payments to 121 regular beneficiaries who are retired mariners (or those unable to work) and living on a low income
Amount awarded: £75,000
Nautilus Welfare Fund
First year of two years' multi-year funding for four caseworkers based in Hull, Cardiff & Bristol, Tyne & Wear and Southampton, providing essential support to retired merchant navy seafarers and their families to access benefits, grants, and other vital services.
Amount awarded: £156,876
Greenwich Citizens Advice Bureaux Ltd
Co-funding to support the Seafarers’ Advice and Information Line (SAIL) which provides vital information, casework, debt advice, and support services to seafarers and their families across the UK.
Amount awarded: £166,829
UK Women in Fisheries CIC
Bridging funding to enable the UK Women in Fisheries to develop the UK Women in Fishing network until FaSS matched funding can unlock their previously approved grant from The Seafarers' Charity.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Sailors' Children's Society
Funding to support strategies to increase financial sustainability through strengthening the Sailors’ Children’s Society capacity to raise more funds from a wider range of income streams.
Amount awarded: £69,716
The Officers' Association
Funding for the Officers' Association Benevolent Fund (OABF) to provide financial grants and welfare services to Royal Navy/Royal Marine Officer beneficiaries living in the UK, delivered by the Officers' Association casework service.
Amount awarded: £39,000
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.
