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Seafarer Centre of the Year

This award recognises the seafarers' centre that has done the most to provide high quality welfare services and facilities for visiting seafarers.

Seafarers nominate a seafarers' centre based on the following criteria:

  1. What welfare services and facilities the seafarers' centre provides.
  2. How accessible the centre is.
  3. The ship visiting service provided (if used).
  4. How the services/facilities benefitted them.

Judges criteria

Seafarers' centres will be judged on the following criteria:

  1. The welfare services and facilities the seafarers' centre provides.
  2. How accessible the centre is and its opening times.
  3. The centre's ship visiting service including the number of ships visited by each volunteer/welfare worker.
  4. What the centre does to ensure that it meets the needs of seafarers.
  5. How the centre works with other welfare organisations, where they exist, in the port.
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