In 2025, The Seafarers’ Charity awarded over £2.7m through 60 grants to 53 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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Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Regular grant distribution continuation
To allow the continuation of regular grants to 49 means-tested beneficiaries plus a contribution towards the additional welfare costs incurred to improve their quality of life during difficult times.
Amount awarded: £40,000
The Cranfield Trust
Capacity Building
To provide intensive capacity-building support to five charities in The Seafarers’ Charity’s grant portfolio through expert business consultancy. This will equip the charities with the tools, insight, and confidence to strengthen leadership, governance, and strategy. In turn, they will be better placed to deliver vital services more effectively and sustainably, enabling more vulnerable seafarers and their families to access timely, targeted support.
Amount awarded: £15,000
Sailors’ Children’s Charity
Expansion of services in Scotland
Multi-year funding to enable continued support for 41 families (including 65 children and one university student) in Scotland
Amount awarded: £17,500
Greenwich CAB (Scotland)
Funding for Scotland
Multi-year pass through funding from the Peter Dixon Trust to expand operations in Scotland
Amount awarded: £5,000
NWF
Case worker service salaries
Funding to support the full cost of the Nautical Welfare Fund’s Caseworker service helping retired seafarers and their dependents access all the benefits and public services they are entitled to including help with rehousing, accessing occupational therapy and physiotherapy services, GP support as well as applying for Nautilus Welfare Fund grants.
Amount awarded: £100,000
Shipwrecked Mariners
Regular Grants for Retired Seafarers
Funding to support Shipwrecked Mariners long term work of providing regular grants to retired mariners (or those unable to work) living on low incomes.
Amount awarded: £75,000
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.
