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 from 2021-2023 to date.
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:
Enhanced Financial Resilience
Year:
2021
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Seafarers International Relief Fund: Financial hardship grants to Filipino seafarers and dependents,
as well as next of kin of deceased seafarers, who are impacted by Covid-19 in the Philippines
Amount awarded: £95,000
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
A grant awarded from the Seafarers International Relief Fund for financial hardship grants to Filipino seafarers and their dependants, as well as next of kin of deceased seafarers, who are impacted by COVID-19 in the Philippines.
Amount awarded: £95,000
Greenwich Citizens Advice Bureau Limited
Funding to support the Seafarers Advice & Information Line to provide a free Citizens Advice Bureau telephone advice service to fishers and merchant seafarers.
Amount awarded: £153,615
The Money Charity
Additional payment for a second round of edits to financial capability training course and webinar for fishers supporting the Fishing Without a Safety Net recommendations.
Amount awarded: £480
Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Grant funding to support regular quarterly grant payments to 53 older merchant and fishing beneficiaries in Scotland, plus a contribution towards core costs.
Amount awarded: £46,500
Sailors' Children's Society
Application for funding towards the Society Support Scheme providing grants, respite breaks and support to disadvantaged children of Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet families throughout the United Kingdom.
Amount awarded: £70,000
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.
