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 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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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

The Nautical Institute

Funding to establish a bursary scheme for seafarers from low GDP countries to attend the Nautical Institute’s Leadership & Management training courses which are aimed at addressing toxic leadership within the maritime industry.

Amount awarded: £30,000

CCDL Innovations Ltd

Funding for a Fishing Animateur Project which provides specialised support to individual fishermen in the under-10m fleet, aiding in identifying, developing, and securing funding for projects enhancing health and safety, improving ports and harbours, and scientific research within the industry.

Amount awarded: £50,000

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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.

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