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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2020
Sailors' Children's Society
Grant funding to continue the provision of individual hardship grants for children of Merchant Navy and fishing fleet seafarers to cover the increasing costs of food and heating during the COVID-19 crisis for six months.
Amount awarded: £20,000
Cornish Fish Producers Organisation Ltd
Grant funding to support the Fathom fishing podcast to continue producing bi-weekly episodes until the end of 2020.
Amount awarded: £19,900
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
Mission to Seafarers
Grant funding for a Digital Chaplaincy Service which will provide online support for seafarers and their families wishing to speak to a chaplain, launched in conjunction with the International Christian Maritime Association.
Amount awarded: £17,000
Safety Folder
Grant funding to support the incorporation, marketing and one year of core costs of the UK element of The Safety Folder (a free online safety management system for fishers).
Amount awarded: £16,500
The Humber Seafarers' Service
Grant funding to support the Humber seafarers' centre, North East of England, due to the Coronavirus lockdown.
Amount awarded: £15,000
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.
