One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote @MissingPeople's service for friends, family, and colleagues with a missing loved one.
Every 90 seconds, someone is reported missing in the UK. For over 30 years, Missing People have been supporting friends and families through the agony of having a missing loved one. The charity is there no matter what, for as long as it takes.
Around 160,000 people are reported missing each year in the UK. Friends, family members, and those who care for them are left behind, searching and fearing for their safety. Around a million people a year could experience the fear, pain and anxiety of ambiguous loss.
Missing People offers a service for free and in confidence, to support anyone who is missing someone they care for. Their team can offer valuable, practical advice and information in those early hours as well as advocacy and long-term emotional support.
That is why today we’re teaming up with the OMBLES to better raise awareness of our Family Support service across the country.
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters to promote @MissingPeople's Family Support Service to friends, family members and colleagues with a missing loved one.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs & @MissingPeople with the hashtag #MissingPeople & link to missingpeople.org.uk/get-help/help-services/family-support
Remember to include your name/handle in the top left-hand corner of your submissions. Enter as many times as you like. Deadline 6pm bst.
You can also enter on Linkedin via the comments on our pinned post.
Tag and follow linkedin.com/company/oneminutebriefs andlinkedin.com/company/missing-people
Feel free to share posts and stories to Instagram too!
Tag and follow @OneMinuteBriefs and instagram.com/MissingPeople.uk
WINNER prize: Missing People merch + the opportunity to have your idea shown on BILLBOARDS/social ads nationwide.
Key statistics and figures:
Someone is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK
Almost 160,000 people are reported missing every year
There are 330,000 reported missing incidents every year
When people are missing, they are at real risk of harm.
Most of the people who are reported missing may be experiencing some kind of vulnerability or risk. This can be exacerbated by being missing, particularly where someone goes missing more than once.
What is ‘missing’?
There is not one multi-agency definition of missing, however for definition for police is “anyone whose whereabouts cannot be established will be considered as missing until located, and their well-being or otherwise confirmed.”
ABOUT:
For every missing child, adult and family left behind find help, hope and a safe way to reconnect.
We provide free, confidential support, help and advice by phone, text and live chat, including the opportunity to reconnect. We also coordinate a UK wide network of people, businesses and media to join the search for the estimated 160,000 people who go missing each year.
Our support for those with a missing loved one
Daily support via our free and confidential Helpline, available to anyone affected by someone going missing.
A dedicated family support worker, who will keep in touch as much as is needed.
Online peer support from those who have experienced the agony of having a loved one go missing.
Dedicated opportunities to meet with a community, including spaces to create and talk about your experiences.
Practical guidance on your rights when a loved one goes missing.
Find us on socials:
missingpeople.org.uk
facebook.com/missingpeople.uk
twitter.com/missingpeople
instagram.com/missingpeople.uk
