Sources of Advice for Individuals / Links

Support and advice when it’s needed most.

There are a number of organisations across the country that share the same key objectives as the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society – to provide serving or retired servicemen and women, mariners, fishermen, and their families, with essential support when it is needed most.

Below are just some of these organisations.

The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society will be very pleased to consider a reciprocal link to any other relevant charity or organisation. For all enquiries, please click here to contact us.

Advice

• FirstStop Care Advice
• Merchant Navy Welfare Board
• Seafarer Support
• The Money Advice Service
• Turn2us
• Veterans UK

Befriending

• Age UK
• Seafarers Link
• The Silver Line

Benefit and Debt Advice

• Seafarers’ Advice & Information Line
• The Money Advice Service

Bereavement

• Cruse Bereavement Care
• UK Care Guide

Education

• The Merchant Navy Education Foundation

General

• Federation of Merchant Mariners
• Gallantry Medallists League
• Historical Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre
• Marine Insight
• Maritime Volunteer Service
• Merchant Navy Memorial Trust
• National Maritime Museum
• RNLI
• The British Merchant Navy Old Friends Plus Forum
• The Coast Guard Association
• The Royal Humane Society
• The Second World War Experience Centre
• The Watch Ashore
• The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations
• UK Harbour Masters Association
• Whitby & District Fishing Industry Training School
• The Plymouth Merchant Navy Monument Fund

Help and Support for Individuals

• Anchor
• Apostleship of the Sea
• Blind Veterans UK
• Carers UK
• Combat Stress
• Fishermen’s Mission
• Guild of Benevolence of the IMarEST
• Health Through Warmth
• Independent Age
• Merchant Navy Association
• Mission to Seafarers
• Mobility Trust
• Nautilus UK
• Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest
• Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation
• Sailors Childrens Society
• Sailors’ Society
• Seafarers Hospital Society
• Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association
• The Princes Royal Trust for Carers
• The Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphan Institution

Homes

• Care Ashore
• Grimsby Sailors & Fishing Charity
• Nautilus Mariners’ Park
• The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society

Other

• Mission to Seafarers
• Sailors’ Society