- ITIC says ship managers must beware increase in claims by owners
- New Chairman and CEO appointments at BLP Insurance
- Chauncy Maples on course
- ITIC says shipbrokers must protect commission entitlement
- Thomas Miller Investment renew their support of Leading Junior Cyclist
- BLP sponsors 'Housing Project of the Year Award' at The Building Awards
- ITIC: Ship agents under increasing pressure from telex releases
- BLP: UK’s top mortgage lenders sign-up to groundbreaking construction assurance scheme
- Threats and Consequences
- An update on Chauncy Maples
Raised to date:
£1,191,000
Still needed:£809,000
Corporate donations
You will find information about this at the back of this brochure (in pdf format).
To find out how to make a corporate donation, please contact Mark Holford - Mark is our Marketing Director and a trustee / the fundraising director of the Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust (UK Registered Charity No. 1128174).
The "Shopping List"
The renovation requires about £800,000 of parts, which are listed in this "shopping list". It shows the approximate purchase price. if you are a supplier interested in donating these, we would very much like to hear from you. Equally as a donor it will give you an idea of what your donation will buy.
Personal donations
You can support Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust with a fast and secure donation on justgiving.com.
Gift Aid is added automatically
You can create a special page for a fundraising event to raise sponsorship. For more information download this leaflet (in pdf format).
Thomas Miller Staff fund raising efforts
Supporting Chauncy Maples
A new co-sponsor - the Mota Engil Group - brings €2m to the project
In October 2010, Malawi Shipping Services, owned by Mota-Engil (the Portuguese international civil engineering company), was granted a 30 year concession to take over shipping services on Lake Malawi and the shipyard in Monkey Bay. Its charitable arm, Fundação Manuel António da Mota, has become a co-sponsor alongside Thomas Miller and will finance €2million of the running costs during the next ten years. So it has joined the partnership between Malawi’s Ministry of Health, The Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust and Thomas Miller. Read press release
We have raised £1,000,000 - we need another - can you help?
Many members of our community have generously helped us get the first £1m towards the renovation costs of Chauncy Maples. We urgently need your help now to raise the second £1m to finance the parts necessary for this project (see panel on the left) – the quicker we raise the money, the sooner we can improve the lives of lakeside Malawians.
Our appeal to you
Thomas Miller has itself conributed £250,000 and another £600,000 has come from its community - clubs, members, business partners andl. We are now seeking to spread this support wider in the maritime community, especially amongst the suppliers of the equipment needed on the vessel.
Thomas Miller chairman, Hugo Wynn-Williams, talks about this challenge and invites you to join us in raising the £2m necessary to make this venture a reality.
Major Donors
Co-Sponsors (>£250,000)
- Thomas Miller
- Fundação Manuel António da Mota
Special Founders (>£100,000)
- Ana Leaf Foundation
- Holman Fenwick Willan
- ITF Seafarers' Trust
Founders (£25,000)
- Hellenic War Risks Club
- ITIC
- TT Club
- UK Defence Club
- UK P&I Club
- Anonymous Trust
- Blank Rome
- Catlin Group
- Davenport Lyons
- Deloitte
- Diana Shipping
- Future Care
- Ince
- Marfin / Topic
- Miller Insurance Services
- Moore Stephens
- Reed Smith
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View the full list of major donors
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Benefactors (£10,000)
- Aspen
- Catlin Group
- Crimson
- Davenport Lyons
- Dewey & LeBoeuf
- Lancashire Insurance
- Montgomery McCracken
- Henry St George & friends
- V Ships
Supporters (£2,500)
- UK War Risks Club
- Almi Tankers
- Ascot Underwriting
- Axis Insurance
- Barlow Lyde & Gilbert
- Bernard & Partners
- Blanck & Cooper
- BMS Harris & Dixon Marine
- Bluefin Group
- Chalos, O'Connor & Duffy
- DataCert
- Emard Danoff Port Tamulski & Paetzold
- Enid Linder Trust
- Fafalios
- Fairsky Shipping & Trading
- Fednav
- FEGS Distributors
- P L Ferrari
- Freehill, Hogan & Mahar
- Hamilton Miller & Birthisel
- Munir Hashim
- Hor Novak & Skipp
- Stephen James
- Keesal, Young & Logan
- Kumiai Senpaku
- Richard Kendall
- Liberty Group
- Lloyd's Charities Trust
- Lloyd’s Register
- Lonmar Global Risks
- M&S Shipping
- Mahoney & Keane
- Marketform Managing Agency
- David Martin-Clark
- McLean Group
- Sir Peter Miller
- Sarah Miller
- Mordiglia & Co
- Navigators Underwriting Agency
- Novae Syndicates
- Palmer Biezup & Henderson
- QBE
- Qais Zakaria
- Rawle & Henderson
- Resolve Marine Group
- Royston Rayzor
- The Sammermar Trust
- Smit Salavage
- C F Spencer & Co
- Stevens Baldo Freeman & Lightly
- The Swire Charitable Trust
- Swiss Re Europe
- Keith Wallace
- Welder Leshin
- Willis
- Witherby Publishing Group
Celebrating 125 years
Thomas Miller celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2010. We sought a way to do this which would be imaginative, have the potential to do good and be of universal interest to our community, while having a maritime flavour. We found a unique project which meets all these objectives.
Sponsoring Chauncy Maples - Lake Malawi's Clinic
Chauncy Maples is Africa's oldest motor ship (built 1899 in Glasgow) and has sailed on Lake Malawi since. The Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust, a UK Charity, is raising £2m to renovate the ship as a primary health clinic on Lake Malawi, serving 500,000 of the world's poorest people who have little or no access to medicine. Thomas Miller has agreed to sponsor the project. The needs of lakeside Malawian people combined with the history of Chauncy Maples, not least how she got to Lake Malawi, make this a tremendous endeavour.
This venture is high profile in Malawi and recently the President of Malawi publicly announced the project. Chauncy Maples herself is known to most Malawians and has played an important role in the history and development of Malawi.
Visit the site here: www.chauncymaples.org
Chauncy News
Renovation starts in earnest for Chauncy Maples. Read about the developments in 2012 here.
