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:
Improved Health and Wellbeing
Year:
2022
Cornwall Community Development Ltd
A grant awarded in 2022, to fund an innovative UK-wide research project on fishers' mental health - the first national assessment of its kind.
Amount awarded: £6,500
UK Sailing Academy
Grant funding awarded in 2022 for continued funding of two dedicated welfare roles, enabling UKSA to support the wellbeing of their students whilst with them and whilst working in the industry, promoting better working lives at sea. Wellbeing materials are also requested.
Amount awarded: £97,600
Mortrans Welfare Fund
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to support Ukrainian port workers impacted by the conflict. Funds will be directly used to supply basic human welfare, such as shelter, food, water, transport, access to medical services, and other financial assistance.
Amount awarded: £8,830
Aberdeen Seafarer's Centre
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to cover temporary accommodation costs for single male seafarers from Ukraine who are on 5 week rest break from working at sea and do not want to return to Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Fishermen's Mission
Grant funding awarded in 2022 for organisational core costs (60%) with the remaining 40% split equitably between port welfare programmes in Troon, Kilkeel, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
Amount awarded: £156,936
Stella Maris
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to provide urgent food to seafarers, fishers and their families in the cities of Cebu and Liloan and their environs, and on the Island of Bohol – the regions most affected by Super Typhoon Rai, Philippines.
Amount awarded: £68,600
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.
