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Shipping industry leaders support Sailors’ Society
Howard Lake | 18 September 2009 | News
Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Morgan KBE, former Director General of the UK Chamber of Shipping, hosted a historic Dinner at Admiralty House, London recently in aid of International seafarers’ charity Sailors’ Society.
The dinner was attended by Flemming Jacobs, leading figure in liner shipping and Sailors’ Society Campaign Board Chairman, and sixteen specially invited guests who represented a range of companies connected to the industry from tankers to agents, lawyers and shipbrokers.
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Sir Christopher Morgan KBE, an active member of the Sailors’ Society campaign board, said: “We are incredibly grateful to the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope KCB OBE ADC for his generosity in allowing this special event to take place in such a historic setting. The venue has such significance to the shipping industry and was most appropriate for the Sailors’ Society. It was a privilege to again support a charity that continues to support seafarers and their families almost 200 years after it was first established.”
During the evening Sir Christopher addressed the guests explaining the importance of the Sailors’ Society’s work with seafarers far from home. He also stressed that the Society was seeking donations from individuals and companies and long-term relationships of mutual benefit.
For further information about the Sailors’ Society or if you would like to make a donation towards the charity’s vital work supporting seafarers worldwide, please contact the Sailors’ Society on 023 8051 5950 or email ev****@*************ty.org.
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Notes to Editors:
The Sailors’ Society is an international charity that provides a personal lifeline for seafarers throughout the world. Existing to enrich and enhance the well-being of the world’s 1.2 million seafarers, the charity offers practical help, emotional and spiritual support and, when in dire need, financial assistance and family liaison through our Port Chaplains and Seafarers’ Centres. Our Port Chaplains visit thousands of ships every year, directly addressing the needs of seafarers – irrespective of a person’s belief or nationality – as well as maintaining vital links within the Ports that they operate.
For more information, please visit www.sailors-society.org, or contact Debbie Osborne at Logical Creative Marketing on: 0845 345 69 69 or email: de****@****co.uk
Guests
John Birkholm – Tankers UK Agencies Ltd.
Crispin Burridge – Marks & Spencers
Rob Day – BP Shipping
Michael Drayton
James Duguid – Saga Shipping
James Gosling – Holman Fenwick
Claus Hyldager – Inchcape Shipping Services
Peter Kerr-Dineen – Howe Robinson
Jesper Kjadegaard – Chamber of Shipping
Iain Light – Lloyds Register
Charles Maltby – Pacific Basin
Brian Nixon – Morgan Stanley
Michael Parker – Citi Global
Johnny Plumbe – ACM
Luke Readman – Thomas Miller P&I Ltd
Hosts
Flemming Jacobs – Trustee and Campaign Board Chairman
Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Morgan – KBE – Campaign Board Member
Robert Adams RD* – CEO, Sailors’ Society
Jan Webber – Director of Fundraising & Marketing, Sailors’ Society
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.