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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Fishing into the Future

Grant funding awarded to support the salary of a full time programme manager to develop and lead a programme of activities to engage local grassroots fishers in the science of fishing and the co-management of fisheries to improve financial resilience of fishers.

Amount awarded: £42,000

Fishermen’s Mission

Grant funding awarded to provide hardship grants to commercial fishers in England whose livelihoods have been impacted by the unexplained deaths of lobster, crab and poisoned fish stocks.

Amount awarded: £5,000

Fighting With Pride

Grant funding awarded to support the work of UK's only LGBT+ Armed Forces charity which in two years has enabled remarkable change as a champion of a uniquely isolated group of veterans.

Amount awarded: £30,000

Cornish Fish Producers Organisation

Grant funding awarded to support the production of The Fathom Podcast - the only specialist commercial fishing podcast in the UK which educates and informs working fishers on relevant and time-sensitive topics that impact their working lives.

Amount awarded: £21,000

Clyde Fishermen’s Trust

Grant funding awarded to support two full-time project managers and one part-time fundraiser to develop and lead a comprehensive range of projects to ensure the long-term financial sustainability and resilience of fishers in Scotland.

Amount awarded: £75,000

CHIRP Charitable Trust

Grant funding awarded to support the core costs of CHIRP's maritime programme for the financial year 2022-23.

Amount awarded: £75,000

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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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