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
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
Citizens Advice Greenwich
Joint funding to support the Seafarers’ Information and Advice Line (SAIL) which provides vital information, casework, debt advice, and support services to seafarers and their families across the UK. Additional funding for promotion in Scotland.
Amount awarded: £233,598
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.
