To-date in 2022, The Seafarers’ Charity awarded £914,220 in grants to 16 organisations, supporting more than 400,000 people in need.

Last year we awarded 74 grants, totalling over £2.9m to 56 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 from 2020-2022.

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Marine Society and Sea Cadets

Final year of Phase 2 of the Marine Engineering Pathway Project, supporting the development of nationwide engineering skills for young people.

Amount awarded: £260,000

Fishmongers’ Company’s Fisheries Charitable Trust

Grant funding for COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Programme which is a match funding project, led by Fishmongers’ Company’s Fisheries Charitable Trust which aims to alleviate and respond to some of the current, immediate challenges faced by the seafood sector across the UK.

Amount awarded: £250,000

Seafarers Hospital Society

Grant funding to support the UK Maritime Anchor Fund. The fund has been developed for seafarers living and working in the UK who have been impacted by COVID-19. The Fund provides one-off emergency grants, advice from on financial resilience, free relationship counselling and mental health support.

Amount awarded: £200,000

Fishermen's Mission

Grant funding to support the Fishermen's Mission Superintendents to award individual hardship grants to fishers financially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Amount awarded: £195,000

Fishermen's Mission

A major contribution to deliver a UK-wide welfare outreach programme to support welfare delivery in Peterhead, Scotland.

Amount awarded: £190,000

Nautilus Welfare Fund

Grant funding to support three different initiatives: top-up fees for care home residents at Mariners' Park; a part-time physiotherapy post; and two caseworker posts in Hull and Portsmouth.

Amount awarded: £178,260

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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 in 2017 - 2021.

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