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:
2022
International Seafarers’ Welfare Assistance Network
A grant awarded in 2022 to provide financial assistance to seafarers and their dependents affected by Typhoon Rai in the Philippines which will enable them to repair their damaged homes.
Amount awarded: £13,250
Mortrans Welfare Fund
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to provide a fund for individual hardship grants to support the members and their families of the Marine Transport Workers Trade Union of Ukraine who have been displaced from their homes or otherwise impacted by the crisis in Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £50,000
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to cover bank charges incurred while making international banking transfers for individual hardship grants from the SIRF Ukraine Crisis Support Fund (an initiative funded by the Ukraine Seafarers International Relief Fund)
Amount awarded: £9,700
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to top up funding for the recently established, and now fully utilised, Seafarers' Hardship Fund, managed on behalf of the Seafarers International Relief Fund Ukraine, to support seafarers and their families impacted by the crisis in Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £50,000
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund for a new Seafarers' Hardship Fund, managed on behalf of the Seafarers International Relief Fund, to support seafarers and their families impacted by the crisis in Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £50,000
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund and The Sefarers' Charity's main grants programme to top up ISWAN's Seafarers' Hardship Fund to support seafarers, and their families, impacted by the Ukraine conflict.
Amount awarded: £136,484
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.
