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
Salute Her
Funding for accessible, confidential and effective mental health support for women who have lived experience of sexual assault and associated trauma while working at sea.
Amount awarded: £60,000
Mission to Seafarers NZ
Funding to sustain welfare provision to seafarers visiting the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand.
Amount awarded: £42,000
Hull Maritime Foundation
Funding to engage, recruit and train a team of 20 seafarer volunteers for the Arctic Corsair, the UK's last remaining side-winding trawler, which formed part of Hull's North Sea fishing fleet until the late 1970s and is due to reopen to the public in 2026 after a major restoration.
Amount awarded: £20,000
Family Action
Funding to provide relationship counselling services, information, and self-help to promote healthy and happy relationships for seafarers in the UK.
Amount awarded: £34,100
Merchant Seamen’s War Memorial Society (Care Ashore)
Funding to upgrade windows in the beneficiary accommodation with modern UPVC double glazed units to keep retired seafarer resident’s warmer through improved thermal efficiency, reducing energy costs and the risk of condensation and mould growth.
Amount awarded: £25,000
Broughton House
Funding for extra support for 18 seafarer veterans with dementia at the Broughton House Veteran Care Village in Greater Manchester.
Amount awarded: £29,812
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.
