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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Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support regular quarterly grants to 52 beneficiaries, at an increased rate to mitigate the rising costs of living, plus a contribution towards the charity's core costs.
Amount awarded: £59,000
Salute Her UK
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support a bespoke trauma-informed support/therapy intervention for women who have lived experience of sexual assault and associated trauma in the military, merchant navy or fishing fleet.
Amount awarded: £40,000
Sailors' Children's Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Merchant Navy Fund and The Sefarers' Charity's main grants programme to support children from Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet families living in poverty with regular grants for food and heating or children's activities along with clothing grants and respite breaks.
Amount awarded: £70,000
Sailors' Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to facilitate the Crisis Response Network: a free global service run by 37 trained crisis responders who support seafarers and their families during traumatic incidents such as piracy, abandonment and natural disasters.
Amount awarded: £106,500
Sailors' Society
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support the core costs of this charity who have a global network of chaplains in 87 international ports supporting seafarers, as well as a range of wellbeing Apps and a Crisis Response Network.
Amount awarded: £81,000
Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to help the Royal Liverpool Seafarers Orphans Institution deliver a meaningful and sustainable level of support packages to the sons and daughters of deceased merchant seafarers and fishers.
Amount awarded: £70,000
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.