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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CCDL Innovations Ltd
Funding for a Policy Officer role to write a policy brief on fishers’ mental health support access and develop practical outreach materials including pocket tide timetables with embedded mental health resources.
Amount awarded: £7,400
Befrienders Worldwide
Funding for Befrienders Worldwide to deliver regular social media promotions that keep seafarers’ emotional wellbeing in the public eye, support the Seafarers Emotional Support Service, and strengthen BW’s overall media presence.
Amount awarded: £5,000
QVSR
The funding will help provide accommodation for active and retired seafarers and assist with their welfare by working with external specialist services and organisations to provide practical, emotional and pastoral support. The funding will also enable the QVSR Felixstowe team to upgrade a boiler and purchase a new air hockey table.
Amount awarded: £50,000
The Fishermen's Mission
Funding for the ongoing provision of the Emergency and Welfare Outreach Services for active and former fishers, their families/widows, and migrant fishers through financial, pastoral, bereavement, physical and mental health support.
Amount awarded: £120,000
The Mission to Seafarers
Funding to establish a dual-role Welfare Officer in Chennai, India to deliver a pilot programme providing welfare support to over 6,000 visiting seafarers annually. They will also provide a series of wellbeing seminars, suicide prevention training sessions, and a one-to-one mentoring support programme to 600+ maritime cadets.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Nautilus Welfare Fund
Funding towards the running costs of Mariners’ Park, a 36-bed care home and dementia unit that supports a total of 220 former Merchant Navy residents across the Care Home and 149 properties on the estate.
Amount awarded: £132,000
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.
