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:
Safer Working Lives at Sea
Year:
2025
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
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.