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.
Categories:
Better Working Lives at Sea
Year:
2021
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: £63,800
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
Emergency funding to support the welfare needs of seafarers at ports in Africa and the Pacific severely affected by COVID-19. The ports include: Walvis Bay, Namibia; Durban, S Africa; Mombasa, Kenya; Tahiti, Solomon Island; Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea.
Amount awarded: £35,300
Stella Maris
Grant to maintain and develop operational capacity to deliver welfare services to seafarers arriving in the ports of Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Richards Bay in South Africa.
Amount awarded: £35,000
Mission to Seafarers
Contribution funding to develop The Mission to Seafarers App, estimated to reach 35,000 seafarers internationally, to enable seafarers to the Chat to a Chaplain service, and many other welfare services while at sea or on land.
Amount awarded: £30,000
Cornish Fish Producers Organisation Ltd
Fathom podcast is a project that continues to interview fishing industry experts on relevant themes. It then broadcasts the conversations in order to help build capacity and educate those working within and around the industry.
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.
