HUMBER PORT WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr Ian Scott
Vice Chairman: Revd Colum Kelly
The Humber Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times a year, alternating meeting venues between the seafarers’ centres at Immingham, Hull, and the Mayors Office in Hull with occasional visits to Goole. The Committee consider seafarers' welfare issues at a local, national and international level. Topics can range from port welfare facilities in the Humber area to the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006. The committee also considers grant applications to the MNWB and the MCFGs grants programmes with comments and recommendations passed on to the relevant grant making charity. Organisations represented on the Humber PWC, along with links to their respective website, are as follows:
The following organisations are represented on the Port Welfare Committee:
| ABP Hull & Goole | www.abports.co.uk |
| Apostleship of the Sea | www.apostleshipofthesea.org.uk |
| Danish Seamen’s Church | www.danishchurch.co.uk |
| Fishermen’s Mission | www.fishermensmission.org.uk |
| Grimsby Sailors’ & Fishing Charity | |
| Hull Chamber of Commerce & Shipping | www.hull-humber-chamber.co.uk |
| Hull County Council | www.hullcc.gov.uk |
| Hull & Goole Port Health Authority | www.hullandgoolepha.gov.uk |
| Humber Seafarers’ Service | www.humberseafarers.org |
| Merchant Navy Association | www.mna.org.uk |
| The Mission to Seafarers | www.missiontoseafarers.org |
| North Humberside Industrial Mission | www.industrialmission.org.uk |
| RMT | www.rmt.org.uk |
| Sailors’ Society | www.biss.org.uk |
| Seamen’s Christian Friend Society | www.scfs.org |
| Sailors Families Society | www.sailors-families.org.uk |
| The Watch Ashore | www.watchashore.org.uk |
| RMT | www.rmt.org.uk |
| Maritime and Coastguard Agency | www.mcga.gov.uk |
| UK Border Agency | www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk |
as at 14th May 2010