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
The Mission To Seafarers
Funding for the establishment of a dedicated Superyacht Crew Welfare Hub in Antibes, France, to provide essential emotional and practical support to superyacht crew members. The hub will address a gap in welfare provision, enhance mental health awareness, and promote career development for superyacht crew.
Amount awarded: £60,000
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
Funding for the part-time salary of a Project Manager to drive the strategic delivery of ISWAN's long-term Welfare of Yacht Crew project and develop and deliver the resources identified by the Changing Tack of Yacht Crew Welfare working group.
Amount awarded: £24,705
I Exist Too
Funding to establish the first trans-national mentorship programme that connects LGBTQIA+ individuals in the maritime sector with professionals and industry leaders to receive guidance, support and professional development opportunities.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Human Rights At Sea
Funding to support HRAS’s efforts on advancing the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea (GDHRAS) as a Resolution for adoption at the United Nations.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Greenwich Citizens Advice Bureaux Ltd
Co-funding to support the Seafarers’ Advice and Information Line (SAIL) which provides vital information, casework, debt advice, and support services to seafarers and their families across the UK.
Amount awarded: £166,829
Fares4Free
Funding for Phase 2 implementation of software Salesforce to improve organisational efficiency at a Scottish charity providing transport solutions for the Royal Navy and Armed Forces community who would otherwise struggle to get to appointments.
Amount awarded: £8,000
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.
