TYNE WELFARE COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr Lance Hislop
Vice Chairman: Captain Peter Wynn
The Tyne Port Welfare Committee (PWC) meets three times per annum. Meeting venues usually alternate between the offices of Tyne Port Authority, RNMDSF North Shields, OSG Ltd., Seaham Seafarers Centre and The Mission to Seafarers, Flying Angel Club, South Shields. 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 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 | |
| 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