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.
Categories:
Safer Working Lives at Sea
Year:
2025
Global Maritime Forum
The project "Charting Change: From Stories to Safer Seas" aims to develop a digital campaign to collect personal stories and raise awareness about the issue of sexual misconduct at sea. The stories and data collected will provide an evidence base for the development of a standardised global maritime framework for identifying, responding to, and sanctioning sexual misconduct at sea.
Amount awarded: £67,400
The Nautical Institute
Funding for the creation and distribution of Lifeboat Safety Guidelines to improve overall lifeboat safety and reduce accidents at sea.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Whitby & District Fishing Industry Training School Limited
Funding to train experienced fishers to qualify to be trainers themselves to deliver maritime safety training to apprentices.
Amount awarded: £12,526
Seafood Cornwall Training Ltd
Funding for a programme of safety interventions, face-to-face and on the quayside, in fishing communities around the Southwest of England, with the aim of reducing preventable incidents and accidents.
Amount awarded: £15,000
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.
