MERCHANT NAVY WELFARE BOARD — grant history
Latest income
£808k
Grants listed (FY2025)
21
Listed grants total
£201k
Accounts grants total
£143k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: All grant applications should be made through our online application platform and submitted along with your organisation’s latest annual report, appropriate accounts and supporting documentation.
- Deadlines: There are no deadlines for applications as grants are awarded throughout the year.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- South Africa
- Belgium
- India
- Philippines
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- Australia
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | ANSS 2025 | — | £28k |
| new | QVSR | — | £23k |
| new | NAUTILUS WELFARE FUND | — | £17k |
| new | Vector 24 | — | £7k |
| up | The Fishermen's Mission | £3k | £5k |
| not listed | NAVAL & MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY LTD | £8k | — |
| not listed | MSSC | £5k | — |
| not listed | Annual National Service for Seafarers | £1k | — |
| not listed | Seafarers' Christian Friend Society | £809 | — |
| not listed | THE MARINE SOCIETY AND SEA CADETS | £675 | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANSS 2025 | FY2025 | £28k | Operation Eastlight |
| Care Ashore | FY2025 | £25k | Beneficiary Window Replacement Programme 2025 |
| QVSR | FY2025 | £23k | Tilbury Renovations |
| Nautilus Welfare Fund | FY2025 | £17k | 2025 Bedroom Refurbishment - Phases 2 & 3 |
| Stella Maris | FY2025 | £12k | Essential repairs to Plymouth Port Seafarers’ Centre roof, redecoration of the centre and provision of new furniture and carpet |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2025 | £10k | Newport Seafarers' Centre - feasibility project |
| QVSR | FY2025 | £10k | Main Door Control Access System |
| QVSR | FY2025 | £9k | New Fuirniture Mariners' Park Care Home |
| QVSR | FY2025 | £9k | Immingham Seafarers' Centre Fire Alarm Upgrade |
| QVSR | FY2025 | £8k | Fundraising Consultancy |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2025 | £8k | New washing machine for Mariners' Park Care Home |
| Vector 24 | FY2025 | £7k | Milford Haven Operational Set Up |
| Royal Alfred seafarers Society | FY2025 | £6k | Fire doors upgrade |
| QVSR | FY2025 | £5k | Website Upgrade |
| Seafarers Hospital Society | FY2025 | £5k | Digital Psychological Support for Seafarers and Fishermen via Togetherall |
| The Fishermen's Mission | FY2025 | £5k | Newlyn Centre refurbishment |
| Stella Maris | FY2025 | £5k | Sheerness Seafarers' Centre refurbishment |
| Stella Maris | FY2025 | £5k | Hull Seafarers' Centre refurbishment |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2025 | £4k | Humber - Personal Safety Devices |
| ANSS 2025 | FY2025 | £1k | Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral 2025 |
| MNA | FY2025 | £500 | MN Day Commemorative Service |
| Care Ashore | FY2024 | £46k | Main building fire doors |
| Stella Maris | FY2024 | £14k | Southampton Seafarers' Centre |
| Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society | FY2024 | £10k | Website Redesign |
| Naval Military & Bible Society | FY2024 | £8k | NMBS Portacabin |
| The Mission to Seafarers | FY2024 | £8k | Critical Incident Stress Management Training |
| Seafarers Hospital Society | FY2024 | £7k | Fishing for Better Health Clinic |
| Seafarers Hospital Society | FY2024 | £6k | Mental Health Support - TogetherAll |
| MSSC | FY2024 | £5k | Digital Library for Seafarers |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2024 | £4k | Belfast Cruise Ship Terminal Crew Welfare Portacabin |
| The Fishermen's Mission | FY2024 | £3k | Port banner project |
| Annual National Service for Seafarers | FY2024 | £1k | Annual National Service for Seafarers |
| Seafarers‘ Christian Friend Society | FY2024 | £809 | Aberdeen Project |
| Marine Society | FY2024 | £675 | Digital Library - MSSC Marketing materials |
| MNA | FY2024 | £500 | Day Commemorative Day Service and Reunion |
| QVSR | FY2023 | £173k | Humber Seafarers' Centre Refurbishment Project |
| MNWB | FY2023 | £149k | NSWB and Port Visitor platform |
| QVSR | FY2023 | £115k | Felixstowe Seafarers' Centre Refurbishment Project |
| QVSR | FY2023 | £65k | Assistant Operations Manager post |
| QVSR | FY2023 | £63k | Bristol Seafarers' Centre Refurbishment Project |
| Stella Maris | FY2023 | £57k | Northern Ireland Ship Visiting Team |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2023 | £46k | Suicide Prevention Training |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2023 | £37k | Core Funding for our Portside activities in 2023 - Region 3: North-East |
| Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society | FY2023 | £30k | Nurse call system and Lift repair/upgrade |
| QVSR | FY2023 | £25k | Bristol Seafarers' Centre - 24 hour provision |
| Sailors' Society | FY2023 | £23k | Application 1 - UK Wellness at Sea Resources |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2023 | £20k | Core Funding for our Portside activities in 2023 - Region 1: South-West and Wales |
| Stella Maris | FY2023 | £17k | Enhancing the quality and consistency of care provision to seafarers by Stella Maris |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2023 | £14k | Core Funding for our Portside activities in 2023 - Region 2: Southampton |
| QVSR | FY2023 | £11k | London Tilbury Communication Space Project |
| Women in Transport | FY2023 | £10k | Transport Equity Index |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2023 | £7k | Improvements at Falmouth Seafarer Centre ahead of Tall Ships 2023 |
| MtS North Tees and Hartlepool | FY2023 | £5k | Hot Water Provision |
| The Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution | FY2023 | £5k | Development of new modern and interactive website |
| QVSR Tilbury | FY2023 | £5k | Cruise Crew Lounge |
| Mission to Seafarers | FY2023 | £4k | Core Funding for our Portside activities in 2023 - Region 4: Scotland |
| Aberdeen Seafarers' Centre | FY2023 | £4k | Bicycles for Seafarers |
| Sailors' Children's Society | FY2023 | £4k | Home Computers |
| Lighthouse Seafarers' Mission | FY2023 | £4k | Project Upgrade - TV and boiler |
| Nautilus Welfare Fund | FY2023 | £2k | Replacement of flooring at Mariners' Park |
| Mission to Seafarers South Shields | FY2023 | £2k | 2 x Laptops |
| MNA | FY2023 | £2k | Merchant Navy Day Commemorative Service & Reunion |
| The Fishermen's Mission | FY2023 | £2k | North Shields Centre Access |
| Nautilus Welfare Fund | FY2023 | £2k | Vital Signs Machine |
| ANSS | FY2023 | £1k | Annual National Service for Seafarers 2023 |
| Nautilus Welfare Fund | FY2023 | £500 | Dining room tables and chairs for the dementia wing in the care home |
| 12 UK charities and organisations funded through the Department for Transport grant programme | FY2022 | £1.0m | Department for Transport Grants - Skills & Diversity and People workstreams |
| Marine Engineering Pathway Project | FY2022 | £183k | Skills & Diversity |
| RADAR Employment Apprenticeship Programme | FY2022 | £120k | Skills & Diversity |
| Roadshow for Girls | FY2022 | £100k | Skills & Diversity |