NORTH & EAST OF SCOTLAND PORT WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr Harry Bygate
Vice Chairman: Lt Col Ian Ballantyne
The North & East Scotland Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times per annum. PWC meeting venues alternate between the Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Aberdeen Harbour Board, RNMDSF Fishermen’s Mission, Peterhead with occasional visits to the port of Montrose. The Committee discusses maritime welfare issues of a national and local nature. PWC comments on grant applications of local interest are documented and passed to the relevant grant-making charity. Organisations represented on the North & East Scotland PWC, along with links to their respective website, are as follows:
The following organisations are represented on the Port Welfare Committee:
| Achater Offshore Ltd | |
| Cromarty Firth Port Authority | www.cfpa.co.uk |
| Peterhead Port Authority | www.peterhead-bay.co.uk |
| Port of Invergordon Church of Scotland | |
| Sailors’ Society | www.biss.org.uk |
| Scottish Veterans’ Residences | www.svronline.org |
| Seletar Shipping Ltd | www.seletar.com |
| RMT | www.rmt.org.uk |
| Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen | www.fishermensmission.org.uk |
| Norwegian Government Seamen’s Service | |
| Apostleship of the Sea | www.stellamaris.net |
| Maritime & Coastguard Agency | www.mcga.gov.uk |
| Aberdeen Maritime Museum | www.aagm.co.uk |
| Lerwick Port Authority | www.lerwick.harbour.co.uk |
| Aberdeen City Council | www.aberdeencity.gov.uk |
| Norwegian Seamen’s Mission | |
| Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners | www.fraserburgh-harbour.co.uk |
| ITF | |
| Mission to Seafarers | www.missionstoseamen.org |
| Invergordon Church of Scotland | www.churchofscotland.org.uk |
| Aberdeen Harbour Board | www.aberdeen.harbour.co.uk |
| Seafarers UK | www.seafarers-uk.org |
| Grampian Racial Equality Council | www.grec.co.uk |
| The Watch Ashore | www.watchashore.org.uk |
| UK Border Agency |
as at 7th May 2010