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Chaplaincy Continues As Normal
The Reverend Andrew J Jolly, the UK oil and gas industry chaplain, is currently unable to carry out his full duties due to ill-health. The Chaplaincy continues to minister to the needs of those who work offshore and onshore through the good services of the assistant chaplain, the Reverend Dr Ian A McLean.
In the meantime, should you have any enquiries of a pastoral nature, please do not hesitate to contact the chaplaincy administrator Mrs Anne Fullerton on Tel. 01224 29533 or 01224 29532 or email anne.fullerton@ukoilandgaschaplaincy.com
Chaplain Appointed MBE In Queen's Birthday Honours
The Reverend Andrew Jolly, Chaplain to the UK Oil & Gas Chaplaincy has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Her Majesty The Queen in the 2010 Birthday Honours List.
Upon hearing of his appointment, Andrew Jolly said: “I am delighted and truly surprised to be appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. I never expected to be given special recognition for what I consider to be ‘just doing my job’. This is a great honour which recognises the valuable work of the Chaplaincy and the significant role it plays in the UK oil and gas industry.
“However, although I have received this personal honour, the work I undertake would not be possible without the committed support of Anne Fullerton the Chaplaincy Administrator, Brian Wilkie the Chairman of the Chaplaincy Trustees and the Trustees themselves.
“This honour also serves as a reminder of those who perished on 1 April last year and in Morecambe Bay on 27 December 2006. It also serves as a reminder of all those others who, through natural causes or accident, have lost their lives offshore during my time as the Chaplain. It is a tremendous honour to be permitted to exercise this ministry to those who work offshore and onshore in the UK oil and gas industry.”
Safety Awards Dinner raises funds for Oil Chaplaincy Trust
The Oil Chaplaincy Trust has again been chosen as one of two beneficiaries from a Charity collection held at this years’ IADC North Sea Chapter Safety Awards Ceremony held in May.
IADC North Sea Chapter Chairman John Monks presented a cheque for £4,650 to UK Oil and Gas Chaplain, Rev. Andrew Jolly.
John Monks of the IADC said,
“These monies were raised through personal donations made by Chapter members and their guests at our recent Safety Awards Dinner. We are very pleased to be able to continue to support the Oil Chaplaincy Trust in their excellent work with families of those who have worked in our industry and find themselves experiencing difficult times ”.
Rev. Andrew Jolly “Once more we are indebted to the IADC North Sea Chapter for their generosity. The Oil Chaplaincy Trust provides financial support to individuals, and their families, who have worked in the UK Oil and Gas sector and who through illness or injury find themselves with pressing financial problems.
Through contributions from organisations such as the IADC North Sea Chapter, we can continue to provide this support to those in need”.
Pictured left to right are the Rev Andrew Jolly, UK Oil and Gas Industry Chaplain, Glenn White Vice Chairman of the IADC North Sea Chapter and John Monks IADC Chairman.
Sparrows makes £3,000 donation to Oil Chaplaincy Welfare Trust
Doug Sedge, chief executive officer of Sparrows, has presented a cheque for £3,000 to the Oil Chaplaincy Welfare Trust – the only charity exclusively dedicated to providing crisis support for current and former workers in the oil and gas industry who are prevented from working by illness or injury. The donation was received by Rev Andrew Jolly, chaplain to the UK Oil and Gas industry.
Sparrows makes this £3,000 donation annually to the Trust, with an additional £5,000 if the company achieves its UK safety objectives for the year; after some years’ success in this regard, sadly, in 2009 Sparrows missed its safety targets so the charity only benefits from the basic donation.
With over 900 permanent staff in the UK, Sparrows is one of the largest employers in the UK oil and gas sector. Doug Sedge says the company is committed to playing its part as a good citizen in the industry and in the community.
“The Chaplain meets many of our staff on his regular pastoral visits offshore; he reminds us of the important things in life – including the importance of looking after each other’s safety and welfare.” says Doug Sedge. “We all admired the dignity with which he supported families and led our industry in remembering the victims of Flight 85N, including Alex Dallas. But he helps us to mark the happy times too: in fact Andrew has conducted marriages for some of our employees.”
Accepting the donation, Rev Andrew Jolly said “The Oil Chaplaincy Welfare Trust offers crisis support to employees and former employees of the UK oil and gas industry; in my role as Chaplain, I meet some wonderful people who have had their careers shortened by illness, and donations like this from Sparrows make it possible for us to give simple, practical help which can greatly add to their quality of life.”
Looking to the future, Doug Sedge is characteristically direct.
“It’s not often I ask employees to do something which will cost the company money – but I’m doing it now,” he says “Our safety performances have slipped in the last two years. Let’s sort that right now; let’s commit ourselves to achieving our safety target for 2010. If it earns this worthwhile charity an extra £5,000 donation from the company, that is a price I will be delighted to pay. The price of the alternative, in terms of injury or worse, is one none of us can afford.”
Safety targets for Sparrows UK business units in 2010 are Zero Lost Time Incidents (LTIs), Zero high Potential Severity Incidents, and a Total Recorded Case Frequency (TRCF) of less than 3 per million man hours worked.
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The Oil Chaplaincy Trust has again been chosen as one of two beneficiaries from a Charity collection held at this years’ IADC North Sea Chapter Safety Awards Ceremony held in May.
Doug Sedge, chief executive officer of Sparrows, has presented a cheque for £3,000 to the Oil Chaplaincy Welfare Trust – the only charity exclusively dedicated to providing crisis support for current and former workers in the oil and gas industry who are prevented from working by illness or injury. The donation was received by Rev Andrew Jolly, chaplain to the UK Oil and Gas industry.