LONDON & SOUTH EAST PORT WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Capt Peter White
Vice Chairman: Mr Trevor Goacher
The London & South East Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times per annum. PWC meeting venues usually alternate between Tilbury Seafarers Centre, Mission to Seafarers’ Central Office in London, London Port Authority at Gravesend, Medway Ports, MNWMS Springbok, Queen Victoria Sailors Rest and occasional visits to BISS Dover to cover the area. The Committee discusses maritime welfare issues of a national and local nature. PWC comments on grant applications to the Maritime Charities Funding Group of local interest are documented and passed to the relevant grant-making charity. Organisations represented on the London & South East PWC, along with links to their respective website, are as follows:
The following organisations are represented on the Port Welfare Committee:
| German Seamen’s Mission | www.seemannsmission.org |
| Medway Ports | www.medwayports.com |
| Sailors’ Society | www.biss.org.uk |
| Swedish Seamen’s Church | www.swedishchurch.com |
| Tilbury Seafarers’ Centre | www.centresforseafarers.org |
| The Watch Ashore | www.watchashore.org.uk |
| London Port Health Authority | www.cityoflondon.gov.uk |
| Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital Trust | www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk |
| Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society | www.royalalfredseafarers.com |
| Queens Victoria Seamen’s Rest | www.qvsr.org.uk |
| The London Ship Owners & river Users Society | |
| Seamen’s Hospital Society | www.seahospital.org.uk |
| Port of Tilbury London Ltd. | www.forthports.co.uk/ports/tilbury |
| Apostleship of the Sea | www.stellamaris.net |
| Merchant Seamen’s War Memorial Society | www.mswmsociety.org.uk |
| The Finnish Seamen’s Mission | www.merimieskirkko.fi |
| Dover Seafarers’ Centre | |
| ITF Seafarers’ Trust | mail@itf.org.uk |
| Seamen’s Christian Friend Society | www.scfs.org |
| Danish Seamen’s Church | www.dkchurch.com |
| Port of London Authority | www.pla.co.uk |
| Mission to Seafarers | www.missionstoseamen.org |
as at 16th May 2008