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:
Enhanced Financial Resilience
Year:
2020
Seafarers Hospital Society
Grant funding for a short-term project in the form of a feasibility study to explore and develop the preventative recommendations made within Seafarers UK's Fishing Without a Safety Net research which aims to enhance the financial resilience of UK fishers.
Amount awarded: £18,000
Cockenzie & Port Seton Fishermen's Association Limited
Grant funding for hardship grants of £500 per fisher to cover essential costs. Plus £5,500 for the Association to support fishers to diversify their catch and promote opportunities to purchase from the association to a wider market.
Amount awarded: £10,000
Officers' Association (The)
Grant funding to support current and former Royal Navy and Royal Marine seafarers in need, particularly midshipmen.
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
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
Clyde Fishermen's Trust
Grant funding for individual hardship grants for fishers operating on the west coast of Scotland who have been financially impacted by COVID-19.
Amount awarded: £5,000
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.
