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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Vector 24 (Fares 4 Free)
Seafarers Access Scotland
To strengthen access to welfare, health and community services for Scottish seafarers and their families through outreach, tailored transport, partnership working and referral pathways. The project will focus on east coast fishing and maritime communities from Fraserburgh and Peterhead to Rosyth, reducing barriers to accessing support and extending the reach of specialist services.
Amount awarded: £20,000
UK Sailing Academy
Funding of Welfare Team
Renewed funding to sustain UKSA’s Welfare Team, delivering health and wellbeing support to vulnerable young people enrolled across its programmes, including their Superyacht Cadetship, Further Education and other career pathways, ensuring they can remain in training and progress into employment.
Amount awarded: £100,000
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children's Fund (Naval Children’s Charity)
Wellbeing and development of RN Children
To deliver financial and holistic support (via grants, projects, and wellbeing resources) that improves the wellbeing and life outcomes of Royal Navy families—especially children and young people—whether in crisis or facing service-related challenges.
Amount awarded: £75,000
Maritime Volunteer Service
Digital finances for sustainability
To implement a new digital finance system and thereby: 1) significantly increase numbers of beneficiaries, specifically retired and prospective seafarers; 2) improve individual outcomes, specifically around reducing social isolation and enhancing confidence/self-efficacy; 3) dramatically enhance organisational sustainability through real-time resource management and targeting investment at locations and activities that achieve greatest impact.
Amount awarded: £15,646
International Maritime Health Association
ELearning module - the maritime industry
To provide a free learning resource for all health care professionals beginning work and continuing to work within the maritime industry.
Amount awarded: £19,500
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS)
Health and Wellbeing Navigation
Funding to support seafarers at their time of need with health and wellbeing issues and concerns, helping them to build and live better lives.
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.
