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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Stella Maris
Stella Maris UK Core Costs
Funding to provide chaplaincy ship visiting activities in nearly 100 ports in the UK and beyond, seafarers’ centres in eight ports, and advocacy work for seafarers’ rights.
Amount awarded: £100,000
South Western Fish Producer Organisation
Skipper Leadership Programme
Project to develop and implement a targeted leadership and mentoring programme designed specifically for fishing vessel skipper
Amount awarded: £24,000
Mission To Seafarers Antibes
Superyacht Welfare Hub
Continued multi-year funding to build on recent work to establish a superyacht crew welfare hub in Antibes, France which combines in-person pastoral care, targeted training, and specialist referrals to address the distinct mental health and well-being needs of superyacht crew.
Amount awarded: £149,791
The Nautical Institute
Mental Health Workshops
Funding for six in-person workshops focused on leadership effectiveness, professional behaviours, communication, inclusivity, motivation, and mental health awareness.
Amount awarded: £20,000
ISWAN
SeafarerHelp Helpline for Seafarers
Multi-Year funding to ensure the continuation of ISWAN’s Seafarer Help Service from 2026-2028.
Amount awarded: £500,000
ISWAN
Changing Tack Salary
Funding to continue a dedicated Project Manager role, and associated project costs, that coordinates the Changing Tack working group initiatives including obligations under the Superyacht Alliance think tank focus groups and ISWAN’s Welfare of Yacht Crew project to deliver evidence-
Amount awarded: £53,366
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.
