NORTH WEST PORT WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mrs Elizabeth Richardson
Vice Chairman: Mr John Wilson
The North West Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times per annum. PWC meetings are normally hosted by Mersey Mission to Seafarers, NUMAST Welfare Funds at Mariners Park and Mersey Ports. 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 North West Scotland PWC, along with links to their respective website, are as follows:
The following organisations are represented on the Port Welfare Committee:
| Sailors’ Society | www.biss.org.uk |
| Manchester Port Health Authority | www.porthealth.co.uk |
| ITF | www.itfglobal.org/seafarers |
| NW Area Nautical Institute | www.ninw.org.uk |
| Liverpool Seafarers’ Centre (from Oct 08) | Website under construction |
| Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen | www.fishermensmission.org.uk |
| MRCC | www.mcga.gov.uk |
| Apostleship of the Sea | www.stellamaris.net |
| Peel Ports, Mersey | www.peel.co.uk |
| Liverpool Sailors Home Trust | |
| Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphan Institute | www.rlsoi-uk.org |
| RMT | www.rmt.org.uk |
| Institute of Chartered Ship Brokers | www.ics.org.uk |
| Nautilus UK | www.nautilusUK.org |
| MCM | |
| Mersey Port Health Authority | www.merseyside.com |
| Church of Sweden | www.svenskakyrkan.se |
| Clarkson Port Services | www.clarksons.com |
| Liverpool Pilots Ltd | www.liverpoolpilots.com |
| Port of Liverpool Police | www.portofliverpool.police.uk |
| Mersey Mission to Seafarers | www.merseymissiontoseafarers.org |
| NRHQ Northern England |
as at 16th May 2008