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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Fishing Into the Future
Funding to develop a funding strategy, improve fundraising processes, develop a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact framework (MEI), and enhance the governance potential to drive operational growth.
Amount awarded: £45,000
Cornish Fish Producers Organisation
Funding to support the Young Fishermen’s Network (YFN) which is leading the charge in recruiting, developing, and retaining the next generation of fishers, with the strategic goal to secure the future of the industry. With a strong focus on youth engagement and leadership, YFN is dedicated to promoting fishing as a viable, sustainable career while ensuring that young fishers have a voice in shaping the sector’s future.
Amount awarded: £37,102
Stella Maris
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: £120,000
Mission to Seafarers
Funding to support Phase Two of the development and running costs of Ship Visitor app which is an intuitive mobile application developed for the maritime welfare sector to plan and report on ship visits and seafarer welfare.
Amount awarded: £30,000
UK Women in Fisheries
Continued support for the UK Women in Fisheries’ (UK WIF) operations to ensure that women’s voices in the fisheries industry are not just included, but also celebrated.
Amount awarded: £60,000
International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network
Third year of funding for SeafarerHelp, a free, confidential, multilingual 24/7 365 days per year helpline available to an estimated 1.6 international seafarers and their families. (Co-funding in partnership with ITF Seafarers Trust and TK Foundation for 3 year period).
Amount awarded: £151,086
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.
