The Seafarers’ Charity and The CHIRP Charitable Trust (Maritime Programme) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote and support improved maritime safety through close co-operation on activities of common interest and mutual benefit.
The MoU sets out four areas of collaboration:
- Knowledge and content development: sharing ideas and initiatives to increase maritime safety, including potential podcast episodes, maritime safety films and the development of training courses, together with innovative projects that require funding.
- Communications and advocacy: working together to promote improvements in maritime safety by combining The Seafarers’ Charity’s strengths in communications, advocacy and Government connections with CHIRP Maritime’s evidence, case studies and international connections, alongside mutual promotion of the MoU and its aims.
- Data and evidence sharing: identifying annual safety priorities (which may initially include ship design issues relating to enclosed spaces and obesity, psychological safety, and working at height) and using shared evidence to support data-led, newsworthy stories and shared advocacy positions.
- Partnership development: developing opportunities to work with others who share an interest in maritime safety.
To support delivery, the organisations will meet monthly to discuss progress and plans, and will promote the arrangement and initiatives through print and digital media. The MoU also provides for The Seafarers’ Charity to consider grant applications to support agreed initiatives in the first year of the agreement.
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Notes to editors
- The MoU is a non-binding agreement and provides a framework for co-operation between the parties.
- The MoU became effective on the date of signature, 1 October 2025.
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