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.
Categories:
Improved Health and Wellbeing
Year:
2025
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
Islay & Jura Community Enterprises
Funding to enhance health and wellbeing for current and retired seafarers, fishers, and their families and dependents on the Scottish Hebridean islands of Islay and Jura, while also improving safety standards and practices among current seafarers.
Amount awarded: £12,996
Cobhair Bharraigh
Funding to provide opportunities for social interaction, maintenance of essential life skills and provide person-centred care activities at the Day Centre with a base for carers to receive support in their caring roles, alleviating isolation for veterans.
Amount awarded: £18,000
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.
