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.

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The Fishermen's Mission

Funding for the core costs of the Fishermen's Mission's Emergency and Welfare Outreach Service, and a ring-fenced fund to award hardship grants to beneficiaries when they need financial support.

Amount awarded: £150,000

WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY LIMITED

Funding to support community volunteers from maritime professions across the Forth region to take part in a project to develop skills in maritime heritage, which has been proved to cause statistically significant improvements in wellbeing and self-belief, and reduce isolation and poor mental health.

Amount awarded: £7,500

THE SIR OSWALD STOLL FOUNDATION

This project encompasses the activities of Support Services staff at all five Stoll London and Aldershot sites; tracking the needs of our veteran residents and encouraging and empowering them to manage their independent lives post-service. The grant requested below will be ringfenced to cover time and resources spent specifically with our Royal Navy, Merchant Seamen and Marines veterans.

Amount awarded: £9,750

QVSR

The funding will help us to 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 help us to support the management of port-based welfare services at our Seafarers Centres.

Amount awarded: £50,000

NAUTILUS WELFARE FUND

Funding towards running costs of Mariners’ Park, a 36-bed care home supporting approximately 60 retired and needy merchant navy seafarers each year.

Amount awarded: £120,000

Islay & Jura Community Enterprises Ltd

Funding to provide current and retired seafarers with a range of wellness activities, mental health support, and practical services in response to financial, social, and health challenges exacerbated by rising living costs and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount awarded: £10,000

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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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