TEES WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr John Knight
Vice Chairman: Capt Jerry Drewitt
The Tees Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times a year at venues around the Tees port area such as at the Flying Angel Clubs at North and South Tees, the offices at PD Teesport and Seaham Seafarers' Centre. The Committee consider seafarers' welfare issues at a local, national and international level. Topics can range from port welfare facilities in the Tees area 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 Tees PWC, along with links to their respective websites, are as follows:
The following organisations are represented on the Port Welfare Committee:
| Apostleship of the Sea | www.apostleshipofthesea.org.uk |
| Seamen’s Christian Friend Society | www.scfs.org |
| River Tees Port Health Authority | |
| Hartlepool Borough Council | www.hartlepool.gov.uk |
| Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council | www.stockton.gov.uk |
| Whitby Mission & Seafarers’ Trust | |
| Maritime & Coastguard Agency | www.mcga.gov.uk |
| Redcar & Cleveland Council | www.redcar.cleveland.gov.uk |
| P D Teesport | www.thpal.co.uk |
| Tees & Hartlepool Port Users Association | www.thpua.co.uk |
| ITF Seafarers Trust | www.itfglobal.seafarers-trust |
| Institue of Chartered Ship Brokers | www.cockfieldknight.com |
| Mission to Seafarers | www.missionstoseamen.org |
| The German Seamen’s Mission | www.seemannsmission.org |
| UK Border Agency | www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk |
as at 13th May 2010