Latest News

Sailors' Society press office

Sailors’ Society is a global maritime welfare charity and is available for interview and comment on seafarers’ welfare. Journalists can contact our press office on 023 8051 5950 or, for urgent media enquiries, on 07834 101912.

SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Keep me up-to-date on Sailors' Society news, events and appeals.

Pinned Post

Sailors’ Society launches Christmas Appeal to ease festive separation for seafarers

November 2023

Christmas has always been a time when we want to be at home with loved ones. But many seafarers will be spending Christmas thousands of miles from tho...

Read more +

Sailors’ Society launches Christmas Appeal to ease festive separation for seafarers
Coining it in with cruise ship donations

September 2023

We are delighted to have received an extraordinary cash donation from a generous cruise ship crew. Four people (including Sailors' Society's Kirsty ...

Read more +

South East Asia cadets are all set for unique Sailors’ Society virtual conference.

September 2023

Thousands of cadets are set to attend Sailors' Society's Wellness at Sea Maritime Schools' Conference for South East Asia on Saturday (September 23). ...

Read more +

Then and now - the hopes and fears of young merchant seafarers.

September 2023

In advance of Merchant Navy Day our CEO Sara Baade has been thinking about the young merchant seafarer lives lost in two world wars and how today's Ge...

Read more +

Sailors’ Society Maritime Schools’ Conference gives new insight into Gen Z seafarers.

August 2023

Sailors’ Society has launched its 2023 Maritime Schools’ Conferences with record numbers of cadets and new insight into the minds of Generation Z seaf...

Read more +

Sailors’ Society crisis team support shipwreck crew and their families

August 2023

Sailors’ Society’s Crisis Response Network is supporting survivors of a shipwrecked trawler after an urgent search and rescue operation took place off...

Read more +

Coming together to face the future of seafarer welfare.

August 2023

Sailors' Society CEO and ICMA chair Sara Baade joined with NAMMA (North American Maritime Ministry Association) President Deacon Paul Rosenblum to sig...

Read more +

Sailors’ Society gives North Asian cadets the full virtual conference experience

August 2023

As a global maritime welfare charity, we are holding our third Wellness at Sea Maritime Schools’ Conference in North Asia - but this year there is eve...

Read more +

Sailors’ Society launches appeal for hope.

July 2023

“They gave us hope” When Stephania refused to celebrate her fourth birthday until her seafarer daddy returned home, global maritime welfare charity S...

Read more +

Submariner trains for our Kili mountain climb on board ship

July 2023

How do you train to climb Kilimanjaro when you live and work on a ship? That was the challenge facing former submariner Gordon Foot when he decided t...

Read more +

Sailors' Society's unique new wellness platform launches today

July 2023

A unique e-learning programme that puts positive wellbeing in the hands of seafarers is being launched today July 5 by international maritime charit...

Read more +

Join us on social