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Programmes & Projects Updates

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Port Welfare Vehicle Replacement Programme

Aiden Harvey Welfare & Projects Administrator Rebecca Stalker Deputy Project Manager

• Replaced 117 vehicles (Master List: 68 (81))
• 33 x Minibuses
• 63 x MPVs
• 21 x Cars
• 14 x Welfare Providers (Falklands pending)
• Full cost of purchasing vehicles £2,287,872
• Total of maritime funding grants £1,458,795
• Total society contribution £500,213
• Total part exchange £328,863
• Age shift 5 – 6 years

Port Welfare Vehicle Replacement Programme

Seafarers Support & Maritime Charities Welfare Guide

Helen van Gass Training & Welfare Manager Aiden Harvey Projects & Welfare Administrator

Total Calls Received = 5,107 Monthly Average = 45

Seafarer Support Helpline

50 5000 00 10 1000 000 15 1500 000 20 2000 000 25 2500 000 30 3000 000 20 2009 09 20 2010 10 20 2011 11 20 2012 12 20 2013 13 20 2014 14 20 2015 15 20 2016 16 20 2017 17 20 2018 18 (Oct)

Unique Visitors to Seafarer Support Website

Seafarer Support Website

Search engine – overall top 5 searches (2018) 1st : Sheltered Accommodation (Emergency Grants) 2nd : Education & Training (Grants for Individuals) 3rd : Benefits (Sheltered Accommodation) 4th : Welfare (Regular Grants / Annuities) 5th : Grants for Individuals (Household Equipment grants) MNWB also acts as the clearing house for MN welfare cases on SSAFA CMS system

Number of Attendees

2015 2016 2017 2018 200 150 100 50

• Advanced Safeguarding (New)
• Equality & Diversity (New)
• Managing Volunteers (New)
• Mental Health & Bereavement Awareness

(New)

• Welfare Guidance Course (New)
• Managing Aggression & Violence
• Personal Safety at Work (online)
• Ship Welfare Visitor Course (online)
• SSAFA Caseworker Course
• Substance Misuse Awareness Course
• Volunteer Management

Port Levies

• Collection of levy funds began 1st January 2016
• Port of Tyne match 50p for every £1 collected
• Funds are distributed to the three local welfare

societies twice a year – March and September

• Total amount collected to September 2018:

£38,709 (this includes a 20% contingency fund of £6,039)

• Total funds have been distributed following an

agreed MNWB points formula as follows:

• Mission to Seafarers:

£16,831

• Apostleship of the Sea:

£7,259

• Fishermen’s Mission:

£8,580

Port Welfare Committees

Sarah Edward PWC Manager Katherine Lockwood PWC Manager

• 15 PWCs in UK
• Gibraltar Seafarers’ Welfare Board
• Falklands Port Welfare Board
• 336 Committee members
• 64 local meetings per annum

Rebecca Stalker Deputy Project Manager

• 1 year
• 4 organisations
• 37 Participants
• 3 Devices

Lone Worker Alarm Trial

36 Port Information Leaflets

IT Support for Older Seafarers

‘Sea Shed Digital Pilot Project’

Aberdeen Seafarers’ Centre (ASC)

• 15 Participants
• ASC IT Club
• Specially configured iPads (RNA)
• Helping tackle isolation & loneliness

Peter Tomlin Chief Executive Sharon Coveney Deputy Chief Executive

International Port Welfare Partnership

‘Helping countries establish welfare boards in ports, worldwide’

SHIP OWNERS GOVERNMENTS UNIONS

MLC, 2006

• Over 89 countries ratified
• Over 93% gross tonnage of shipping

• 412 (278) Expressions of

Interest

• 159 (127) Ports
• 73 (57) Countries
• 20 Commonwealth

Set Up 27 (10): Australia, Benin, South Korea, Canada, Antigua & Barbuda, Ghana, Spain, Mauritius, USA, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Kenya & Cameroon…...

IPWP Expressions of Interest

• Continue to encourage and assist countries/ports establish their own

seafarers’ welfare boards

• Work closely with welfare providers, develop guidance, protocols and

quality standards for welfare boards

• Where appropriate, encourage port levy schemes and/or donations to

help financially support the provision of shore based welfare services

• Create a simple, interactive web based platform or portal (‘central’ or

‘single’ point of contact) to promote PWCs and signpost to welfare services in ports….....

• Recruit IPWP Programme Ambassadors – course under development
• Proposed IPWP Handover mid 2020

IPWP Objectives

Executive Administration Team

Celia Jackson Executive Assistant Roxanne Le Voguer Administrator

• Council Mtgs
• Working Groups Mtgs
• Festival of Remembrance
• MNWB Conferences
• MNWB website
• MNM website
• Social Media Project

MNWB Capital Grant Programme 2017 - £328,585 2018 - £303, 426

Tilbury seafarers centre recreational area - £25,000 Sailors’ Children’s Society: mobile holiday home - £25,000 MV Derbyshire Trust Fund - £5,400

Other & Future MNWB Projects

• New Merchant Navy Medal website – complete
• New MNWB website
• New MNWB grant application system
• Investigate expansion of ‘IT for elderly seafarers’ project
• PWCs to encourage more port levy schemes to help societies
• Organise combined PWC & Port Based Welfare Conference
• UK trial of web portal for welfare boards & port welfare services
• Seafarer Support platform rebuild (TH, Seafarers UK & MN Fund)
• Investigate TV or social media outreach project……..demo