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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Beccles Sea Cadets
Grant funding for plumbing of shower units and interactive teaching boards at the new premises for Beccles Sea Cadet Unit in Suffolk, as part of our restricted Beryl Threadkell Fund.
Amount awarded: £7,500
Plymouth Trawler Agents Limited
Grant funding to support Devon and Cornish fishers through the COVID-19 crisis by facilitating a new selling direct to public market for fish, with deliveries nationwide via joint funding with the Fishmonger's Company.
Amount awarded: £7,500
Islay & Jura Community Enterprises Ltd
Grant funding to provide Covid-19 related remote support for seafarer families living on the Hebridean islands of Islay & Jura. Grant also includes core cost support for local charity delivering project.
Amount awarded: £7,295
Not Forgotten Association
Grant funding to provide quality entertainment and recreational events and activities to merchant seamen around the UK in order to combat isolation and loneliness.
Amount awarded: £7,000
Plymouth Trawler Agents Limited
Joint funding with Fishmongers Company Charitable Trust to support small-scale fishers through the Coronavirus crisis and Brexit by continuing to support 'Call4Fish' - a project which helps fishers to sell their catch directly to the public.
Amount awarded: £7,000
Greenwich Citizens Advice Bureau Limited
Joint grant funding contribution to support an additional staff post at SAIL (a specialist Citizens Advice telephone service for seafarers) as a response to an increase in demand for the service due to COVID-19.
Amount awarded: £6,665
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.
