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.
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2021
The Not Forgotten
to provide support to 300 former Merchant Navy personnel through recreational and entertainment events and activities to help prevent loneliness and isolation.
Amount awarded: £7,000
Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society
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).
Amount awarded: £15,000
Age UK for The Silver Line
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.
Amount awarded: £20,000
Falklands Veterans Foundation
to enable a Merchant Navy Veteran’s granddaughter to accompany her mother, for emotional support, during a visit to the Falkland
Islands whose father who was killed in action during the Falkland Islands Conflict
Amount awarded: £1,300
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.
