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.
Categories:
Seafarers International Relief Fund
Year:
2021
Mission to Seafarers
To support:
- A food ingredients programme in Thoothukudi in Southern India, where many seafarers have been experiencing difficulty in taking up new employment contracts, causing severe financial difficulties.
- 1,950 families were helped through the programme, or almost 12,000 individuals in total.
Amount awarded: £43,500
Stella Maris
to fund their work in Cochin, Chennai and the Philippines, as follows:
- A total of 13,120 people provided with food and other essentials;
- A new Oxygen Generator provided to serve the community hospital in Cochin;
- 3,943 people provided with rehabilitation and advice with long COVID-19,
- including provision of occupational therapy, physiotherapy and counselling;
- 586 children provided with counselling through ten volunteer child psychologists, as well as on-line classes while schools were closed.
Amount awarded: £327,003
International Seafarers' Welfare & Assistance Network
awarded to:
- Priority vaccinations for 5,000 Indian seafarers in approved private hospitals in 16 port areas throughout India.
- Financial assistance of up to £1,000 for 80 seafarers, or their immediate family members (approx. 320), who have been hospitalised by COVID-19.
- Emotional support for 3,000 seafarers and their families over a six-month period from ISWAN’s existing SeafarerHelp helpline.
- Financial hardship grants to Filipino seafarers and dependents, as well as next of kin of deceased seafarers, who are impacted by COVID-19, supporting immediate living costs as well as medical costs incurred during hospital treatment.
Amount awarded: £128,000
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.
