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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2021
Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Grant funding to support regular quarterly grant payments to 53 older merchant and fishing beneficiaries in Scotland, plus a contribution towards core costs.
Amount awarded: £46,500
Sailors' Children's Society
Application for funding towards the Society Support Scheme providing grants, respite breaks and support to disadvantaged children of Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet families throughout the United Kingdom.
Amount awarded: £70,000
Naval Children's Fund
Welfare support for Officers' children, and bereaved children of seafarers who work in the Royal Naval Service: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and their Reserves.
Amount awarded: £100,000
Nautilus Welfare Fund
Grant funding to support three different initiatives: top-up fees for care home residents at Mariners' Park; a part-time physiotherapy post; and two caseworker posts in Hull and Portsmouth.
Amount awarded: £178,260
Mission to Seafarers
Contribution funding to develop The Mission to Seafarers App, estimated to reach 35,000 seafarers internationally, to enable seafarers to the Chat to a Chaplain service, and many other welfare services while at sea or on land.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Maritime Charities Group - Nautilus Welfare Fund
Co-funding of a new six-month research project by the Seafarers International Research Centre, Cardiff University, into the port-based welfare needs of women seafarers.
Amount awarded: £20,000
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.
