Grants awarded

to continue to provide and sustain Seafarers Group Telephone Friendship calls which reduce loneliness and isolation, improve wellbeing, and provide older seafarers with the opportunity to link up with others from their communities.

to support children and young people from Merchant Navy families on low incomes to help with essentials such as school uniforms, winter clothes, educational equipment and more.

to ensure the continued provision of long running and much needed telephone friendship groups known as Seafarers Link, which connect older seafarers via regular, supervised telephoneconference calls.

to support emergency grants to Merchant Navy seafarers and their dependants who are in real poverty but who also do not fit within the organisations’ set criteria (e.g. 10 years’ sea service).

The provision of a top up fund to support emergency grants to merchant seafarers and their dependents in real poverty but who do not fit within the charity's eligibility criteria of 10 years’ service at sea

to support the wellbeing of residents at Mariners Park, Wallasey through assisting older resident seafarers to utilise IT to maintain connections with family and friends.