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.
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The CHIRP Charitable Trust
Funding for CHIRP Maritime’s core operations and overhead contribution to the broader CHIRP entity, supporting and expanding the maritime programme. This includes part-time staff recruitment to manage the programme’s growing workload.
Amount awarded: £60,000
National Federation of Fishermen's Organisation
Funding to continue to employ a Risk, Safety and Training Officer focused on seafarers' safety, training, and welfare, collaborating with government, fishers, and vessel managers to ensure safe operations and compliance while providing crews with proper support and guidance.
Amount awarded: £21,730
NATIONAL COASTWATCH INSTITUTION
Funding to renovate the beach-front Watch Station at Whitstable manned by volunteers to spot, plot, and report incidents relating to commercial shipping, fishing and tourists to HM Coastguard.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Fishing Industry's Safety & Health Platform
Funding to support and resource external communications for the FISH Platform. Plus a £20,000 donation from Lloyds Register Foundation to support a 2025 conference in Indonesia.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Port Skills and Safety Ltd
Funding to employ an individual part time for one year, to develop safety guidance and information for fishing ports. To ensure that the safety lessons learnt, and best practice developed in other port sectors can be learned by fishing ports to improve the safety of fishers accessing UK ports.
Amount awarded: £49,614
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations
Funding for the production of the next three FISH SAFE films in the planned series, addressing critical safety gaps in the UK commercial fishing industry due to the persistently high rate of fatalities and severe injuries among fishermen.
Amount awarded: £14,000
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.
