NORTH WEST PORT WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr John Wilson
Vice Chairman: Mr Viorel Raducanescu
The North West Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times a year, usually hosted by the Liverpool Seafarers' Centre. The PWC also holds its AGM at Mariners Park, Numast Care Home in Wallasey. The Committee consider seafarers' welfare issues at a local, national and international level. Topics can range from port welfare facilities in the North West region 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 North West 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 |
| Maritime and Coastguard Agency | 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 |
| Seamens Christian Friends Society | www.scfs.org |
| 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 | www.royalnavy.mod.uk |
| UK Border Agency | www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk |
| Graypen Shipping Agents | www.graypen.com |
as at 13th May 2010