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:
Enhanced Financial Resilience
Year:
2025
Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Funding for the continuation of regular grants to 55 beneficiaries, to mitigate the increased cost-of-living and for a contribution towards the welfare costs to improve their quality of life, by maintaining regular personal contact through social interaction.
Amount awarded: £60,000
Sailors’ Children’s Society
Multi-year funding to enable continued support for 41 families (including 65 children and one university student) in Scotland.
Amount awarded: £17,500
MORTRANS Welfare Fund
Funding to provide Ukrainian seafarers and their families comprehensive medical examinations and food assistance support in wartime conditions.
Amount awarded: £13,000
Nautilus Welfare Fund
Second year of two years’ multi-year funding for 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
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
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
International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network
Funding financial relief for seafarers whose income was impacted by Super Typhoon Kristine (Trami) and Pepito (Man-Yi) which struck the Philippines in October/November 2024.
Amount awarded: £11,400
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.
