Sue Williams, was invited as National Chairman of The Watch Ashore, to the Mansion House in London for the Annual General Meeting of Seafarers UK. It was opened by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, who then chaired the meeting. It was most interesting and she met some lovely people afterwards, all […]
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Watch Ashore AGM
Following on from our AGM in Hull I thought I should post something about the Business meeting where around 35 of our members attended. Sue our Chairman told us about how successful Valerie Coleman’s MFG’s bid to the Aged Veterans fund had been. This money, just under £1million will be used for new accommodation at […]
Seafarers Link
Have you heard about Seafarers’ Link? It is a free group telephone call to for people with a seafaring background to share stories.
The IPWP
Official Launch for IPWP Programme at LISW17 The IPWP programme will be officially launched as part of LISW17 with a business breakfast presentation held on Wednesday 13th September 2017 in the prestigious maritime venue Trinity House. Each member of the IPWP Executive Committee, which has representatives from Governments, Shipowners, Unions, Port Owners/Authorities and […]
Veterans Charity Ball
A Veterans Charity Ball will be held on Friday16th June at the Holiday Inn Plymouth. With current serving servicemen and many veterans in Plymouth being one big Family, hopefully we can make this Charity Ball a huge success. £80 deposit will secure your table of 8 and a special offer price of £35 pp for serving […]
Plymouth Branch Burns Lunch
A snippet of another fun fundraising event that was hosted by Chris & John Rankin. Burns night lunch at Riverview whilst raising funds for Plymouth branch. Thank you to all those who attended, the fabulous toasts from Gordon Walker and Wendy Hawkins and to Sandra Walker who entertained us with many of her favourite "dits". […]