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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Sailors' Society
Funding support for the Crisis Response Network, a free global service supporting seafarers and their families during traumatic incidents such as piracy, abandonment and natural disasters.
Amount awarded: £120,000
Human Rights at Sea
Grant funding to support ongoing day-to-day activities of the Charity in undertaking the 'Human Rights at Sea Awareness and Behaviour Change Programme'.
Amount awarded: £63,250
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding to support Mission to Seafarers to help respond to abandonment and human rights cases in United Arab Emirates as part of their Advocacy and Social Justice work.
Amount awarded: £46,000
Fighting With Pride
Grant funding awarded to support the work of UK's only LGBT+ Armed Forces charity which in two years has enabled remarkable change as a champion of a uniquely isolated group of veterans.
Amount awarded: £30,000
UK Women in Fisheries CIC
Grant to support the establishment of a UK-wide network body for women in UK fisheries. Funding will support co-ordination and promotion of the network and delivery of a programme of topic-led meetings.
Amount awarded: £27,000
Maritime Charities Group - Nautilus Welfare Fund
Co-funding of a new six-month research project by the Seafarers International Research Centre, Cardiff University, into the port-based welfare needs of women seafarers.
Amount awarded: £20,000
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 in 2017 - 2021.
