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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University of Surrey
Funding for a study, supported by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), to demonstrate the potential for glycaemic control in seafarers, using continuous glucose monitoring systems to help them decide and adjust their insulin requirements and carbohydrate intake at sea and on land.
Amount awarded: £40,267
Veterans Outreach Support
Funding to support mental health, wellbeing, and welfare services for seafaring Armed Forces and Merchant Navy veterans and their families across Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Gosport and in wider Hampshire.
Amount awarded: £15,000
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children's Fund (Naval Children’s Charity)
Multi-year funding (over 3 years) for the expansion of delivery of financial and holistic support in Scotland to families, children and young people both in crisis and those affected by the challenges they face as a result of being from a Royal Navy family.
Amount awarded: £17,500
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children's Fund (Naval Children's Charity)
Funding for financial and holistic support to families, children and young people, both in crisis and those affected by the challenged they face as a result of being from a Royal Navy family.
Amount awarded: £80,000
UK Sailing Academy
Renewed funding for the existing Welfare Team to continue delivering health and wellbeing support to vulnerable young people enrolled across their programmes, including their Superyacht Cadetship, Further Education, and other career pathways.
Amount awarded: £100,000
Royal Alfred Seafarers' Society
Continued funding for staff to support occupancy recovery following care home modernisation; expand capacity to serve seafarers under Local Authority funding; and strengthen financial resilience through a revised, sustainable model.
Amount awarded: £35,839
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.
