The Coal Mining Charity
Enabling former coal miners and mining communities to reduce disadvantage.
Improving Lives
Helping you
We’re here to improve the lives of former coal miners and their families. We understand the struggles faced by those in former coal mining communities. We help you overcome some of the barriers you come up against and support you to lead a better quality life.
Thriving Communities
Supporting charities
We help more than 200 independent mining charities to continue delivering essential recreational and social facilities in local communities. Through providing guidance and governance support for coal mining charities to help them thrive.
Our Work In Numbers
What we achieved in 2018 - 19
8947
People received our support
15183
Interventions delivered
£5.3m
Worth of additional income for beneficiaries
£460k+
In grants given away
We've Been Busy
Latest news
New transport for Thornycroft
Thornycroft, our social day centre in Pontefract, has recently benefitted from two new minibuses, ...
Pneumoconiosis Grant Support
CISWO has introduced specific grant support for former coal miners who have been diagnosed with ...
New look and website for CISWO
CISWO has recently undergone a re-brand, giving the organisation a completely new look. Our ...
View our latest annual report
CISWO’s Annual Report and Accounts from 2018/19 have now been published. To read about what ...
Get In Touch
How can we help you?
01709 728 115
mail@ciswo.org.uk