SOUTHERN PORT WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr Ken Temperton
Vice Chairman: Mr Ron Hancock
The Southern Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times a year at a number of maritime venues across the southern region including the Southampton Seafarers' Centre, Warsash Maritime Academy, ABP Southampton and more recently Carnival House. The Committee consider seafarers' welfare issues at a local, national and international level. Topics can range from port welfare facilities in the southern 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 Southern PWC, along with links to their respective website, are as follows
The following organisations are represented on the Port Welfare Committee:
| Apostleship of the Sea | www.stellamaris.net |
| Associated British Ports | www.abports.co.uk |
| Clyde Marine Consultants | www.clydemarine.com |
| Carnival UK/P&O Cruises | www.carnivalukgroup.com |
| RFA | www.royal-navy.mod.uk |
| Sailors’ Society | www.biss.org.uk |
| Seafarers UK | www.seafarers-uk.org |
| Southampton Shipowners Association | www.solentforum.hants.org.uk |
| Warsash Maritime Academy | www.warsashacademy.co.uk |
| Red Funnel Group |
www2.redfunnel.co.uk |
| Maritime & Coastguard Agency | www.mcga.gov.uk |
| Apostleship of the Sea | www.stellamaris.net |
| Seamen’s Christian Friend Society | www.scfs.org |
| National Oceanography Centre, Southampton | www.noc.soton.ac.uk |
| Southampton City Council | www.southampton.gov.uk |
| Southampton Seafarers’ Centre | www.centreforseafarers.org |
| Mission to Seafarers | www.missionstoseamen.org |
| ITF Seafarers Trust | www.itfglobal.seafarers-trust |
| Sach Solicitors | www.sach.solicitors.co.uk |
| Esso Petroleum Ltd | www2.exxonmobil.com |
| Weymouth Port Health Authority | www.weymouth.gov.uk |
| Southampton Port Health Authority | www.southampton.gov.uk |
| Seamariner Ltd | www.seamariner.com |
as at 13th May 2010