missing people charity

Between June and October of 2007 our family and friends launched a fundraising campaign for missing people charity.

Money came from donations,public collections,cake sale,car boot,selling ribbons,non-uniform day and of course press work.

We used the press to help us look for our daughter while she was missing,they generally pay families expenses for this sort of thing but we made an early decission not to take any money,hence all monies received were donated to the charity.

Ribbons & donations 200.00

Collection 495.00

Collection 1,206.00

Ribbons & donations 151.00

Corporate donation 500.00

Daily Mirror 200.00

Daily Mail 200.00

Car boot and donations 412.00

Raffle 1,250.00

Woman magazine 500.00

School fete 315.00

Cake sale 210.00

Collection pots &ribbons 74.00

School non-uni-day 638.00
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GRAND TOTAL 6,351.00
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This money has all been donated to the charity to be used for the recovery of all missing people.

The amount that we raised is enough to man the phone lines for the runaway helpline for a whole year,a huge achievement.

The charity produce posters,man confidential telephone lines ,follow up leads and arrange press coverage.Their help and support are invaluable to families all over the country.

Why I am writing this blog

2007 has been a year of discovery for me.

I started the year as a happy married mum with 2 perfectly average teenage kids,pets running round the garden,dirty washing piled high,we were just the average family.
It's now the end of the year I don't know who I am or what I'm doing,my life is turned upside down,my daughter is gone,my confidence went with her.

I am writing this blog to warn other families of just what can go wrong and how we as a family naively thought that we would get help when we needed it.
We were unded the impression that the laws in this country protected innocent children and prosecuted criminals,how wrong could we be.