|  | | Spare a thought for those at sea | | We may be tiring of tales about the outraged shock and awe of us non-key workers mewed at home with family, Wi-Fi, and slightly restricted shopping opportunities
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 | | Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre plays Santa | | Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre’s dedicated volunteers were informed of a Filipino ship to be in the outer harbour over the Christmas period, so banded together to collect goodies for 17 Christmas gift bags for the crew
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 | | Buzz Wire champion receives prize | | Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre, for the third year running, held their extremely popular Buzz Wire competition at the 2018 Maritime Festival. The two winners each won a prize of tea for two at the 4 star Imperial Hotel on North Drive
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 | | It was a strange feeling | | Colin Wooden, one of the Centre's dedicated volunteers and qualified ships' visitor, who has been heavily involved with the crew of the Malaviya Twenty during her stay in Great Yarmouth, made the following observation
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 | | Newsflash | | The vessel Malaviya Twenty has been arrested by the Admiralty Marshall. This means the crew should be on their way home very soon
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 | | The Malaviya Twenty returns to port | | The Malaviya 20 was taken out into the Outer Harbour for a reason I do not know. While in there, the “Beast from the East” came and the ship and crew (along with members from Peel Port) had a horrendous time breaking line and not being able to get ashore
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 | | Unveiling of a thank-you gift | | Volunteers, Port Chaplain Rev Peter Paine, and directors of the Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre gathered together for the unveiling of a gift from the crew of the stricken Malaviya Twenty
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 | | Christmas windfall for Seafarers Centre | | The Great Yarmouth branch of a worldwide charity that supports seafarers is celebrating Christmas early this year after receiving a cracking £12,000 donation from the Galloper offshore wind farm project
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 | | Buzz Wire champion receives prize | | Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre, for the second year running, held their extremely popular Buzz Wire competition at the 2017 Maritime Festival. The two winners each won a prize of tea for two at the 4 star Imperial Hotel on North Drive
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 | | Sad day for the volunteer team | | It was a sad day for the Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre as they were bidding au revoir to two of their dedicated team of volunteers. David and Jenny were having to step down from a job they loved
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 | | 15th Anniversary Remembrance Service | | The remembrance service was held to honour those who lost their lives on Tuesday, 16th July 2002 after a catastrophic engine failure causing their helicopter to crash into the sea with the loss of all lives of those on board
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 | | Visit the 2017 Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival | | The famous Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival is a fantastic free two-day event found on historic South Quay with ships to go aboard, live shanty folk music, fun street theatre exhibitions, and demonstrations for visitors to explore
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 | | Indian crew needs our help | | 12 Indian crew members have been stranded here in Great Yarmouth since 5th June 2016. They have not been paid by their company, and will not be able to travel home for Christmas
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 | | Port Chaplain's hours of work to be reduced | | Good Work (Norfolk and Waveney Industrial Mission) Ltd employs the Rev Peter Paine as the Port Chaplain of Great Yarmouth. Currently this is a full time post. However, they are sorry to announce that from 1st February 2017 the post will be part time only
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 | | Great fun at the Maritime festival on South Quay | | The festival got off to the traditional start with the sound of canon-fire and the Sea Cadets band. The prominent vessels moored along the quay were, the Earl of Pembroke, a 44m long schooner from 1945,which had sailed into Great Yarmouth to mark
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 | | Mariners centre appeals for help to open longer | | As Great Yarmouth’s Seafarers’ Centre prepares for its first anniversary, an appeal has been launched for more volunteers to help it to open for longer. Around 12 volunteers give their time to help mariners who arrive in the port often after long periods
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 | | Treat for volunteers when invited aboard the Scylla | | On Saturday 5th March, volunteers from the Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre were taken by Revd Peter Paine for a tour around the newest in the Seajacks fleet of jack-up vessels and the largest of its kind in the world the Seajacks Scylla
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| | Port’s chaplain faced with axe unless funds can be found | | Funding is poised to be axed for Great Yarmouth’s dedicated port chaplain casting a question mark over his caring ministry in the town. Rev Peter Paine has been hit by cutbacks being made by the Mission to Seafarers who are paying his salary until the end
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 | | Friendly faces for stranded seafarers | | The Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre was a haven for two seafarers whose vessel's engine had failed while they were on their way home to a port in the south of England. The following day, the centre's Volunteer Manager, Kathy Ridgway said
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 | | Gorleston coastguards given 'royal tour' | | Graham Joel, Station Officer Gorleston Coastguard, together with three coastguards popping into the Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre to see the Port Chaplain and the centre. After a cuppa they were given the ‘Royal Tour’ of the centre
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 | | Bishop Graham launches Centre's internet | | On a visit to the new Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre, the Bishop of Norwich, Rt Rev Graham James, was the first person to use the internet at the centre. This is a very big step forward for the seafarers who use the centre
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 | | Collection tins to go aboard Vroon ships | | In the picture left, you can see Claire Whelan, Recruitment Officer for Deeside Crewing Services, receiving from the Port Chaplain, Rev Peter Paine, a small sample of the 15 collecting tins that Vroon have offered to put on board their ships. These tins
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 | | Unexpected fun at the Seafarers' Centre | | Last evening, the two volunteers on duty at the recently opened Seafarers' Centre had an amazing time. They were busy sorting some books that had been kindly donated earlier that day when two lovely people walked through the doorway and enquired about
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| | First seafarer visitor steps over the threshold | | Last night, the volunteers in the newly opened Seafarers Centre welcomed the first seafarer visitor through the doors. He commented that it was great to see this facitlity return to Great Yarmouth after being missed for so many years
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 | | Centre opens after years of hard work | | Glorious sunshine met the dozens of supporters gathered on Great Yarmouth’s busy quayside for the dedication of a new seafarers’ centre. Around 80 people celebrated the official opening of the Great Yarmouth Seafarers' Centre with a traditional ribbon cut
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 | | Helping strangers in a foreign land | | There is nothing more important for the Secretary General than to visit ports and see the work at the front line. Sometimes you become a witness yourself to some of the dramas experienced by our teams - chaplains, staff and volunteers
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 | | Welcome boost for the developing Seafarers Centre | | Homesick sailors in Great Yarmouth have been given a boost after the town’s Seafarer Centre took a big step towards reopening. Since the old building closed in 2004, Port Chaplain, Rev Peter Paine, has been working to reestablish a safe place for seamen
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 | | Have a look at the goings-on inside | | I have been photographing aspects of Great Yarmouth for around 2 years and have noted the neglected building, formerly Bay21a on the quay. It was with delight that I read in the papers that it had been found a new use and one that would be of benefit
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 | | Urgent help needed for new Seafarers Centre | | The new Seafarers Centre is getting a makeover; and an electrician is to carry out work to the building as soon as possible. Any offers of help from someone who has all the up to date certification would be most welcome
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 | | Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre launches new website | | As work progresses on the new Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre, a new website has been launched to provide information about the centre and its services. The Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre is an advice and social hub which will soon be available
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| | Work progresses to refurbish the new Seafarers Centre | | Now the new roof has been installed on what will be the new Seafarers Centre, work is beginning in earnest to bring the building up to standard to be a place of haven for seafarers coming into the port. The glazier set to work to replace the entrance door
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 | | Yarmouth seafarers hub moves closer | | A project to turn a shabby quayside building into a high-tech advice and social hub for seafarers is moving forward thanks to a funding boost. Fundraisers are over half way towards a £10,000 target to bring the caring service back to Great Yarmouth after
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 | | About Us | | The Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre is an advice and social hub available to the estimated 15,000 seafarers from across the world who visit the port of Great Yarmouth every year.
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About Us
The Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre is an advice and social hub available to the estimated 15,000 seafarers from across the world who visit the port of Great Yarmouth every year
Associated with the Mission to Seafarers, the Seafarers Centre is run by Port Chaplain, Rev Peter Paine, and offers someone to talk to, a chance to call home, and spiritual support
The centre is open every weekday evening between 6pm and 8pm and Saturday and Sunday between 1pm and 3pm
At 5.15pm every first Tuesday of the month, there is an open prayer time, to which all are welcome
Great Yarmouth Seafarers Centre
South Quay
Great Yarmouth
NR30 2RW
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