25 May: Day of the big Tweet for missing children

http://www.missingpeople.org.uk/missing-people/everyday-ways/the-big-tweet-2012?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=partner_toolkit&utm_content=pre_big_tweet_day&utm_campaign=big_tweet

What is the Big Tweet for Missing Children? Stephen Fry explains...



“A staggering 140,000 children go missing in the UK every year. On International Missing Children’s Day (Friday 25 May), I will once again join the charity Missing People in harnessing the power of Twitter to help find missing children via The Big Tweet for Missing Children. You can take part too, by retweeting the appeals for missing children that the charity will tweet every 30 minutes, for 24 hours.

On this day, the charity will also be launching 116 000 – the new hotline number to call or text for support if you or someone you love goes missing - thanks to the support of ICAP. So please add #116000 to all your tweets and help to spread the word about this important new number. You never know when someone you love might need it.”

Thanks, Rose. What a brilliant idea Tweeting the number #116000.

I agree, brilliant idea indeed.

Well done Mr. Stephen Fry.

Excellent idea, though I am very glad I am not a twitter person - the forkers and haters will be foaming at the mouth on May 25 - even more than they usually do.

More here:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/missing-children-website-relaunched-114002157.html

Missing children website relaunched

An official website to help find missing and abducted children from the UK has been relaunched by the police's specialist child protection agency.
Police forces will use the site - www.missingkids.co.uk - to circulate up-to-date photographs of and information about youngsters who have been missing for days, months or years.
The website, run by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (Ceop), allows the public to download posters, and in some cases includes age-progression images showing how missing children may have changed as they grow older.
The charity Parents and Abducted Children Together (Pact) hailed the new redesigned website as a long-overdue national approach to the problem.
Lady Catherine Meyer, founder and chief executive of Pact, said: "With over 130,000 children going missing in the UK each year - more than one every five minutes - I am delighted to announce this major breakthrough in Pact's decade-long campaign to reform the way we tackle this tragic issue.
"With the re-launch of the Missingkids website, and Ceop's taking responsibility for missing and abducted children, we finally have the tools to bring hope to those whose children have gone missing or been abducted.
"The important thing now is to raise public awareness of the website."

A reception hosted by Home Secretary Theresa May will be held at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday to mark International Missing Children's Day.

That's the reception Kate McCann is attending, isn't it?

You have to admit that these horrible people are ultimately raising awareness of this dreadful problem.
Keep up the good work. We are all so much more aware these days.

I would expect the more vociferous tweeters will be adding that #number to their McCann tweets on the day, showing the world what vile people they really are.

Between the Downing Street reception, and Tweet Day, they are going to go into hyperdrive before the end of the week.

Is that Clarence Mitchell at Kate's side in this photo? And whether it is or not, is that the missing children ribbon now that he is wearing. I think it odd that nobody else is wearing one but think it would also be odd if he had turned up wearing such a prominent ribbon for some other campaign.

Not sure what to think.

It is indeed Clarence, but you're right, it is odd that he's the only one wearing a ribbon. I can't see any of the other male guests to get a good look at their lapels.

bb1, thanks for the yahoo link, also thanks for the photos.

greenink211 wrote:Is that Clarence Mitchell at Kate's side in this photo? And whether it is or not, is that the missing children ribbon now that he is wearing. I think it odd that nobody else is wearing one but think it would also be odd if he had turned up wearing such a prominent ribbon for some other campaign.

Not sure what to think.

Check out the skull on that woman's blouse holding the wine glass. Doesn't that seem like a weird thing to wear to a missing people event?

About: "Check out the skull on that woman's blouse holding the wine glass. Doesn't that seem like a weird thing to wear to a missing people event?", I agree, it is weird, perhaps she thought that it was a halloween part, surely that this woman could have used another dress, one in agreement with the occasion inside Downing Street UK Prime Minister.