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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Lighthouse Seafarers Mission
Grant funding to provide suitably qualified staff to provide holiday cover for the Port Chaplain.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Orkney Fisheries Association
Grant funding to provide practical support to members to become Internet and Social Media literate, to help them adjust mentally and emotionally to new ways of selling their catch and advise on best sources of finance and support.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Veterans Outreach Support
Grant funding for the Veterans Outreach Support Drop-In Centre, integrating welfare, wellbeing and mental health support for ex-Merchant Navy personnel and their families in Portsmouth.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Royal Commonwealth Ex-Service League
Grant funding contribution to provide former Merchant Navy Commonwealth seafarers in poverty in Zimbabwe, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth, with two meals a day.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Hull 4 Heroes
Grant funding to employ a full-time Warehouse Operative to lead the daily redistribution of food parcels and essential supplies to vulnerable veterans in Hull during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Clyde Fishermen's Trust
Grant funding to continue providing support to the Clyde fishermen and their families impacted by COVID-19. This is in the form of providing financial support for hardship and assistance to diversify and develop new market opportunities.
Amount awarded: £10,000
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.
