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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Cornish Fish Producers Organisation Ltd
Fathom podcast is a project that continues to interview fishing industry experts on relevant themes. It then broadcasts the conversations in order to help build capacity and educate those working within and around the industry.
Amount awarded: £20,000
Commsave Credit Union Limited
To provide a marketing budget and loan guarantee fund to underwrite and support the risk of the Credit Union providing affordable financial services to fishing families in the UK.
Amount awarded: £40,000
Chirp Charitable Trust
Core funding for the Confidential Human factors Incident Reporting Programme for one year to aid achieving its primary objectives in respect of maritime safety.
Amount awarded: £60,000
Befrienders Worldwide
Befrienders Worldwide propose to set up an emotional support service in collaboration with other charities using their new Help App to allow seafarers to contact designated help centres located in countries which have strong links to shipping.
Amount awarded: £16,500
Age UK
Continued provision of much-needed telephone friendship group 'Seafarers Link', aimed at helping to reduce loneliness and isolation, and enhancing relationships and social interaction with other seafarers and their communities.
Amount awarded: £27,640
Stella Maris
to fund their work in Cochin, Chennai and the Philippines, as follows:
- A total of 13,120 people provided with food and other essentials;
- A new Oxygen Generator provided to serve the community hospital in Cochin;
- 3,943 people provided with rehabilitation and advice with long COVID-19,
- including provision of occupational therapy, physiotherapy and counselling;
- 586 children provided with counselling through ten volunteer child psychologists, as well as on-line classes while schools were closed.
Amount awarded: £327,003
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.
