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Read our latest Miners' Welfare Newsletter

The sixth edition of our Miners' Welfare Newsletter is now available to read.

In this edition we focus on income generation. This includes ways to bring in income for your charity, potential sources of external funding, tips on how to make a good

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Education Grant Support

Applications are now open for the CISWO Education Grant to help support former mineworkers and their dependent children with the costs of higher education.

This includes full-time courses in higher education such as degree courses, and Higher

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Support for Markham Miner’s Welfare

 

CISWO recently embarked on a project aiming to transform the facilities and services provided by Markham Miner’s Welfare. The project was mainly aimed at enhancing governance, implementing best practices, and securing sustainable funding

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Partnerships at Thornycroft

 

We are excited to announce that we have recently joined forces with both Grow Wakefield and Turning Point Talking Therapies to offer new workshops to clients at our Thornycroft centre. 

 

At our Thornycroft Centre we are committed to

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New lease of life for client

CISWO can support on a range of different issues and may be able to offer assistance in areas you have not considered.

This was the case for a client who we recently worked with. The client initially contacted us regarding one of our energy

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Educational grant for student

As part of our mission to reduce disadvantage for ex-coalminers, their dependents and within ex-coalmining communities, we provide grants to support those who were employed in the coal mining industry of Great Britain (where they have completed

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