TYNE WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr Lance Hislop
Vice Chairman: Captain Peter Wynn
The Tyne Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times a year. Meeting venues usually alternate between the offices of Tyne Port Authority, RNMDSF North Shields, Seaham Seafarers Centre, The Mission to Seafarers, Flying Angel Club, South Shields and more recently at the MCA Tyne. The Committee consider seafarers' welfare issues at a local, national and international level. Topics can range from port welfare facilities in the Tyne 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 Tyne 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.apostleshipofthesea.org.uk |
| Blyth (South Harbour) Harbourmaster | |
| Dan Shipping and Chartering Ltd | www.danshipping.co.uk |
| Danish Seamen’s Church | www.danishchurch.co.uk |
| GT Gillie & Blair | www.gillieblair.com |
| ITF | www.itfglobal.org/seafarers |
| OSG Ship Management (UK) | www.osg.com |
| Port Chaplain International | |
| South Shields Seafarers’ Centre | |
| Stephenson Clarke Shipping Ltd | www.scsbulk.com |
| The Watch Ashore | www.watchashore.org.uk |
| Mission to Seafarers South Shields | www.missiontoseafarers.org |
| The Marine College, South Tyneside College | www.stc.ac.uk |
| Tyne Port Health Authority | www.portoftyne.co.uk |
| River Blyth Port Health Authority | www.go-ne.gov.uk |
| South Tyneside Council | www.southtyneside.info |
| Aged Merchant Seamen’s Homes | www.housingcorp.gov.uk |
| Maritime & Coastguard Agency | www.mcga.gov.uk |
| RMT | www.rmt.org.uk |
| Port of Tyne Authority | www.portoftyne.co.uk |
| Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen | www.fishermensmission.org.uk |
| Seaham Seafarers Centre | www.missiontoseafarers.org |
as at 16th May 2008