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.
Categories:
Better Working Lives at Sea
Year:
2022
Merchant Navy Welfare Board
A grant was awarded in 2022 as our annual contribution to the costs of the Merchant Navy Medal Fund which is organised and run by the Merchant Navy Welfare Board.
Amount awarded: £100
Stella Maris
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to develop Stella Maris Kenya’s capacity and welfare services across Mombasa, Malindi, Nakuru and Homa Bay during 2022-23.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Stella Maris
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to provide rapid emergency grants to seafarers and their families in crisis and distress through the Stella Maris Centenary Emergency Fund.
Amount awarded: £35,000
Sailors' Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to facilitate the Crisis Response Network: a free global service run by 37 trained crisis responders who support seafarers and their families during traumatic incidents such as piracy, abandonment and natural disasters.
Amount awarded: £106,500
Sailors' Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the core costs of this charity who have a global network of chaplains in 87 international ports supporting seafarers, as well as a range of wellbeing Apps and a Crisis Response Network.
Amount awarded: £81,000
National Non-Sector Organisation
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to provide start-up costs for representative body and legal advice service for inshore fleet of small-scale fishers.
Amount awarded: £15,000
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.
