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.

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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.

How Can We Help

Our Work In Numbers

What we achieved in 2022

5429

People received our support

230

Local mining charities provided with support and guidance

£3.0m

Worth of additional income for beneficiaries

£ 254 k+

In grants given away to individuals

£ 166 k

In funds invested in other charities

We've Been Busy

Latest news

Read our latest Miners' Welfare Newsletter

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

Education Grant Support

Applications are now open for the CISWO Education Grant to help support former mineworkers and ...

Support for Markham Miner’s Welfare

  CISWO recently embarked on a project aiming to transform the facilities and services ...

Partnerships at Thornycroft

  We are excited to announce that we have recently joined forces with both Grow Wakefield ...

Get In Touch

How can we help you?

01709 728 115

mail@ciswo.org.uk

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