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The Seafarers' Charity

Impact Report 2025

The Seafarers' Charity's 2025 impact report details nearly £2.7 million awarded to 44 organisations, reaching over 439,000 seafarers, fishers and their families worldwide. It covers work preventing exploitation and illegal recruitment fees, funding safety training for fishers in Uganda, supporting survivors of sexual harassment at sea through Safer Waves, and researching fitness-to-work standards for diabetic seafarers.

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Central fundraising grant funder for maritime welfare and safety organisations, funding confidential helplines, financial hardship grants, safety training and equipment, mental health support, accommodation for seafarers in later life, and advocacy against illegal recruitment fees and exploitation.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 £2,663,970 awarded in grants to 44 delivery partner organisations in 2025
Key Metric 2 439,000 beneficiaries reached through 59 grants worldwide
Key Metric 3 More than £3 million raised in 2025

Key Outcomes

  • Safer Waves grew from a small volunteer-led initiative into a professional organisation training hundreds of maritime workers a year to handle disclosures of sexual harassment and abuse
  • A safety training and lifejacket rental pilot scheme reached more than 10,000 fishers across Uganda's Kalangala district
  • A University of Surrey study is following 50 seafarers and fishers over 18 months to inform fairer medical fitness-to-work standards for diabetic seafarers

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