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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Seafood Cornwall Training Ltd
Skills, Resources and Collaboration
Funding towards the core costs of extending engagement with Seafood Cornwall’s mission and to take advantage of the move to the new centre for training in Newlyn.
Amount awarded: £20,000
The CHIRP Charitable Trust
Maritime Safety Insight Model
To create the core of an AI-driven maritime safety insight model that harnesses the global corpus of authoritative incident reports to identify behavioural and systemic insights that can be adopted by strategic decision-makers to improve safety outcomes for seafarers, the initial milestone of which is an Alan Turing Institute-led Data Study Group in September 2026.
Amount awarded: £36,800
Port Skills and Safety LTD
PSS Fishing Port Safety Year 2
Funding to continue the employment of the Fishing Port Safety Manager (FPSM) for another year.
Amount awarded: £51,154
CCDL
Safety, Resilience and Outreach
To fund outreach work in partnership with the Young Fishermen Network (YFN) and The ComSave Credit Union to support low-income and single-handed fishermen in accessing grants, strengthening business resilience and implementing preventive safety improvements at sea and ashore for the under 10m fleet.
Amount awarded: £45,000
NFFO
NFFO Risk, Safety & Training Lead
Funding towards the continuation of the Risk, Safety & Training Lead at the NFFO, enabling the Federation to provide ongoing representation with maritime safety regulators, and and to provide ongoing support, advice and safety advocacy for fishing vessel owners throughout the UK.
Amount awarded: £10,000
CHIRP
CHIRP Maritime Programme
Funding to improve maritime safety worldwide through the provision of an independent, impartial, and confidential safety incident reporting system.
Amount awarded: £60,000
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.
