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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Mortrans Welfare Fund
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to provide a fund for individual hardship grants to support the seafarer members and their families of the Marine Transport Workers Trade Union of Ukraine who have been displaced from their homes or otherwise impacted by the crisis in Ukraine.
Amount awarded: £58,700
Mortrans Welfare Fund
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Seafarers International Relief Fund to provide additional funding for Ukrainian port workers impacted by the ongoing war. These funds will be used to supply key necessities such as shelter, food, water, transport and medical resources.
Amount awarded: £9,500
Age UK
Grant funding awarded in 2022 from the Merchant Navy Fund to provide and sustain Seafarers Group Telephone Friendship calls which reduce loneliness and isolation, improve wellbeing, and provide older Seafarers with the opportunity to link up with others from their communities.
Amount awarded: £27,000
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support consolidating and strengthening welfare services for seafarers at ports and at sea.
Amount awarded: £100,000
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to support welfare work for seafarers visiting ports in Africa (Lagos, Nigeria; Mombasa, Kenya; Richards Bay, Durban, Saldanha Bay, Cape Town & Port Elizabeth; South Africa; Walvis Bay, Namibia).
Amount awarded: £31,980
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding awarded in 2022 to fund the necessary improvements to the Chat to a Chaplain service for seafarer, which was originated in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Amount awarded: £22,860
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.
