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.

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Stella Maris

To establish a shared Seafarers' Centre at Southampton Port for all ship visiting charities active there to supporter seafarers coming ashore.

Amount awarded: £4,000

Stella Maris

To provide chaplaincy services in ports around the UK to meet both the short- and long-term need of seafarers, fishers and their dependents, primarily through ship visiting activities.

Amount awarded: £120,000

SAILORS' SOCIETY

Core cost funding for Sailors' Society's finance team salaries and operations, building capacity to improve the lives of seafarers and their families across the globe.

Amount awarded: £70,000

SAILORS' SOCIETY

Funding to support our Crisis Response Network, a free 24/7 365 days service supporting seafarers and their families following critical incidents e.g. abandonment, accidents, imprisonment, missing persons, natural disasters, piracy etc.

Amount awarded: £99,500

THE MISSION TO SEAFARERS

Funding to support Mission to Seafarers' core costs to deliver its operations across UK and Europe promoting the spiritual, moral and physical well-being of seafarers and their families.

Amount awarded: £50,000

Clyde Fishermen's Trust

Funding for a new, apprenticeship-style employability programme providing a clear, structured pathway for young people across the west coast of Scotland to access a career within the fishing industry.

Amount awarded: £17,012

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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.

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