# Shipping industry leaders support Sailors’ Society

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/09/18/shipping-industry-leaders-support-sailors039-society/
- Published: 2009-09-18T09:36:35+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

 

Ends

### 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

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