The Ship’s Club
Importance has been attached to promoting collective spare time activity and to increase possibilities for the crew of a vessel to take part in such arrangements as may be cultivated in common only. The club takes care of mutual activities such as sport and exercise, entertainment, sightseeing and excursions ashore, filmservice etc. Further, many Clubs extend their activities by procuring equipment for common use such as magazines, newspapers, literature, indoor-games, handbooks, photo enlargers, dvd-equipment, psysical exercise equipment etc.

Sports Service
In cooperation with the Finnish, the Norwegian and the Swedish Welfare organizations as well as The International Sports Committee for Seafarers competitions in Soccer, Athletics, Volley-ball, Table-tennis and Swimming are being arranged regularly. Annually International Sports Weeks for seafarers are being held in the Ports of Esbjerg and Fredericia.

TV and Radio Service
Administration of TV-Service on DVDs and Radio on CDs is maintained by the Welfare-Board. The Danish State Radio and TV is responsible for delivering programmes chosen from the last fortnight’s broadcast of Danish productions.The charge TV service is 1500 dkr. for about 4 hours of TV copied on 1 DVD. The Radio service is free og charge.

Film Service and DVD Production
The crew on a vessel can subscribe and thus receive each month 6 or 9 videofilms - a total of 72 or 108 film annually. The film-cassettes are sent as airmail or taken on board by crewmembers signing on. Danish Government Seamen’s Service has the ambition to make a selection of drama, thriller, action and comedy to give variation and relaxing entertainment. After the twelve months rental period, the DVD’s are destroyed according to copyright regulations. If you are interested in this video service, please contact video@hfv.dk for further information.

The Board established in 1990 its own production of information-spots on DVD, which are being send to seafarers being member of the TV-Service and Filmservice.

Distributions of magazines and books
This service includes airmailing of weekly "Newsweek" to all Danish vessels sailing outside Danish waters. Every year 3-4000 novels, mostly paperback fiction, in Danish, English and Polish. The Welfare Board publishes its own magazine HORISONT in about 2.500 copies 2 times a year. It is sent to all Danish vessels and to institutions and organizations concerned. Further the Board publishes each year an information-booklet with detailed informations of the various services of the Board.

Activities in Danish ports
A representative of the Welfare Office visits all ships calling Copenhagen. We offer assistance in shopping, sightseeing-tours and sports-events. A similar service is in the ports of Esbjerg, Aarhus, Kalundborg and Aalborg- Nørresundby. Annual grants are made out of the funds of the Welfare Board to the institutions in these ports.

Other Activities
In various fields the Welfare Board works in close cooperation with the Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish Welfare Boards. As part of the International cooperation a Danish welfare officer is stationed in Rotterdam, the Netherlands at the Dutch International Seamens’s Club at Heyplaat.

The Danish Goverment’s Seamen’s Service is a member of the International Committee on Seafarers Welfare and the International Sports Committee for Se