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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2024
UK Sailing Academy
Funding to support the Superyacht Cadetship Bursary programme at UK Sailing Academy (UKSA), which will provide financial assistance to six students.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Tom Harrison House
Funding to support a residential addiction recovery program for 12 Royal Navy participants struggling with addiction and mental health issues, aimed at transforming their lives to be addiction-free.
Amount awarded: £33,200
THE NOT FORGOTTEN ASSOCIATION
Funding for a new evidence-based approach to optimising individual Physical and Psychological Health & Wellbeing (PPH&W) for a new generation of veterans/wounded serving personnel via an app-based platform to reach remote beneficiaries.
Amount awarded: £20,000
Stella Maris (Apostleship of the Sea)
Funding to support the development and expansion of ship visiting services in ports for seafarers and beach management units in fishing communities for fishers, in Kenya, plus support for PPE and training in Tanzania.
Amount awarded: £32,982
Scottish Nautical Welfare Society
Funding to sustain financial support and welfare services for retired seafarers in Scotland by providing quarterly grants to 55 regular beneficiaries, plus a contribution towards core costs.
Amount awarded: £64,100
Safer Waves
Co-funded by the UK P&I Club and TK Foundation, the grant contributes towards funding the salary costs of a part-time Operations Manager role at a charity providing email support services to merchant seafarers who have experienced sexual harassment, gender discrimination or sexual assault.
Amount awarded: £8,060
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.
