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.

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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Felixstowe & Haven Ports Seafarers Service

Financial support to cover shortfall caused by COVID-19 restricting access to shore leave and visits to the seafarer centre, thereby reducing Centre's ability to generate income from sales.

Amount awarded: £50,000

Mission to Seafarers

A grant awarded by the Seafarers International Relief Fund to provide food including rice, dhal, oil and fruit and vegetables plus herbal medicine, hand sanitiser and other PPE equipment for seafarers in Thoothukkudi (Tuticorin), India.

Amount awarded: £47,000

Scottish Nautical Welfare Society

Grant funding to support regular quarterly grant payments to 53 older merchant and fishing beneficiaries in Scotland, plus a contribution towards core costs.

Amount awarded: £46,500

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

Fishing into the Future

Grant funding for core costs to support the salary of a full-time programme manager to develop and lead activities to engage local fishers in the science of fishing and the co-management of fisheries to improve their financial resilience.

Amount awarded: £43,400

Fishing into the Future

Grant funding awarded to support the salary of a full time programme manager to develop and lead a programme of activities to engage local grassroots fishers in the science of fishing and the co-management of fisheries to improve financial resilience of fishers.

Amount awarded: £42,000

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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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