About Us
ABOUT US
Help & support when you need it most...
Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond is a not-for-profit, independent charity, funded solely by donations.
We also provide a free Tracing Service to help reunite long lost families and friends. Check out Our Services, Forms, or Contact Us for more information.
We help search for missing people & provide support for them & their families.
Our free helpline is available 24 hours a day via, phone, text, & email
or forms.
We also provide a free Tracing Service to help reunite long lost families and friends. Check out Our Services, Forms, or Contact Us for more information.
WHO WE ARE
We are a team of volunteers, who provide our services, and expertise for free, to help support missing people & their families.
Check out Our Team
for more information.
Mission
Our aim is to help people dealing with the distress of having a missing loved one, people who might be thinking about leaving home, and those who are currently missing.
Raising awareness of missing people & providing confidential support to those who are missing & their loved ones so that we can help them reconnect, or pass on a 'safe & well'
message.
We understand it can be hard to take the first steps towards reconnecting but we are here to listen and support you.
We also help reunite long lost friends, family members, and adoptees looking to find and reconnect with important people in their lives.
To find out more about what we do visit Our Services, Forms
or Contact Us.
Working Together to Help our Community
We work with a variety of different organisations & individuals to help missing people & their loved ones.
They all give their time & expertise freely, to help & support our aim of raising awareness & fundraising for missing people.
Here is what they have to say...
K9 Search & Recovery Scotland
"I have worked alongside Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond for several years now and their efforts to raise the public profile of missing people, & help families affected by such a traumatic experience is fantastic.
The trustees & admins work hard to help people in their darkest times, they are all a great bunch of people with a wide range of experience in helping missing people & their loved ones.
Sometimes the charity will refer cases to me for consideration, & I will explore options relating to individual situations.
K9 Search & Recovery Scotland is a voluntary organization & as we both rely on donations & fundraising; we often help & support each other with events to raise funds for our respective groups."
The trustees & admins work hard to help people in their darkest times, they are all a great bunch of people with a wide range of experience in helping missing people & their loved ones.
Sometimes the charity will refer cases to me for consideration, & I will explore options relating to individual situations.
K9 Search & Recovery Scotland is a voluntary organization & as we both rely on donations & fundraising; we often help & support each other with events to raise funds for our respective groups."
~ Iain Marshall
East Coast FM Radio Station
East Coast FM
is a Community Radio Station, serving the town of Haddington and surrounding areas, in East Lothian, Scotland. We are a registered Charity in Scotland (Registration No. SC042784).
The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week & programming is varied and includes daytime entertainment, specialist music programmes in the evenings, opportunities for pupils at local schools to create their own shows, local sports coverage and religious themes. The station has a clear focus on being involved with its community and local events, other charities and fundraising are regularly featured.
The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week & programming is varied and includes daytime entertainment, specialist music programmes in the evenings, opportunities for pupils at local schools to create their own shows, local sports coverage and religious themes. The station has a clear focus on being involved with its community and local events, other charities and fundraising are regularly featured.
Our involvement in the local community allows us to train young people, unemployed and those who have to live with special needs in their lives. As a charity we rely on donations to support our efforts & all donations are gratefully received.
East Coast FM has worked with the committed team at Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond for many years, offering slots on our shows for missing person appeals, & also playing music requests for the family of missing people.
East Coast FM has worked with the committed team at Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond for many years, offering slots on our shows for missing person appeals, & also playing music requests for the family of missing people.
It is important to us as a local radio station to help Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond raise awareness of the issue of missing people, both in our community and further afield.
Johnstone Sound
Online Community Radio
Johnstone Sound
is a non profit online community radio station serving the Renfrewshire area.
The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week & has a varied music schedule.
The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week & has a varied music schedule.
The station has a clear focus on being involved with its community and local events, and regularly highlights missing persons cases.
Terri McInnes & Shaun Hamilton: Singer/Songwriters
The story behind how the song Broken Memories came about is one that is very touching to me.
Shaun had been approached by a group known as Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond, they had reached out to and asked if he would be able to write and perform a song for them. Shaun then contacted me and asked if it is something I would also like to get involved with.
At this point in time, I had a lot of things going on in my personal life and the request to get involved was probably the worst timing ever! I was putting together preparations for my wedding and I also had to organise moving my life from Scotland down to England.
I do not personally have the experience of the torment of losing a family member or what the not knowing where they are would bring. I did however, on many occasions, have the anguish and worry of reporting a young person as missing in my care.
Thankfully, these young people were found with the help of police and other services.
It warmed my heart when I checked it later that day, there was loads of replies, Charlotte Elizabeth a song writer from Stoke-on-Trent offered a massive amount of valuable advice and didn't ask anything in return. Lucy Blu a singer/songwriter also offered her help; these are two fantastic people and if you have a spare moment, I would really recommend checking them out.
When I got home that night, I was sitting in my home and as if by magic words came flurrying to my mind and within a matter of about an hour or so, I had come up with two separate poems. Over the course of the next few days me and Shaun worked on the words and the music. We combined the two poems and before we knew it, we had come up with the song!
We then presented it to Joan, and she was happy with what we had come up with. It was all very exciting as things looked as if they were coming together on their own. I then approached Stevie Bull, a musician I had known from the Mojo Cams and a record producer at Ham and Egg Studio in Stevenston, Scotland. He took the song and created the recording that is now being used to generate funds for the Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond Charity.
Shaun had been approached by a group known as Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond, they had reached out to and asked if he would be able to write and perform a song for them. Shaun then contacted me and asked if it is something I would also like to get involved with.
At this point in time, I had a lot of things going on in my personal life and the request to get involved was probably the worst timing ever! I was putting together preparations for my wedding and I also had to organise moving my life from Scotland down to England.
Shaun was a previous student of mine and he had helped me numerous times with end of year shows at the school I was working at, so even though I had all this stuff going on I knew I had to help him, and I felt like I owed him one.
Growing up in Ayrshire I could remember several high-profile news stories of family members who had gone missing and the search continues to this day; Allan Bryant being one of them.
In my line of work, I have also worked with vulnerable young people and I know first-hand that some of these young people were also reported missing. Unfortunately, some of these young people, to date, have still not been found. I do not personally have the experience of the torment of losing a family member or what the not knowing where they are would bring. I did however, on many occasions, have the anguish and worry of reporting a young person as missing in my care.
Thankfully, these young people were found with the help of police and other services.
Joan Grant is a woman who works endlessly for this cause and is truly an inspiration to me and should be to us all. I mention Joan as she had been my main point of contact, but I am fully aware that there are others who are equally hard working and have devoted their lives to supporting families in this situation.
Personally, I felt this was such an important cause and I wanted to do everything I could to help out, I put up a post on a music Facebook page that I’m involved with, asking for any song writers or music producers who could offer Shaun any support or advice.
It warmed my heart when I checked it later that day, there was loads of replies, Charlotte Elizabeth a song writer from Stoke-on-Trent offered a massive amount of valuable advice and didn't ask anything in return. Lucy Blu a singer/songwriter also offered her help; these are two fantastic people and if you have a spare moment, I would really recommend checking them out.
When I got home that night, I was sitting in my home and as if by magic words came flurrying to my mind and within a matter of about an hour or so, I had come up with two separate poems. Over the course of the next few days me and Shaun worked on the words and the music. We combined the two poems and before we knew it, we had come up with the song!
We then presented it to Joan, and she was happy with what we had come up with. It was all very exciting as things looked as if they were coming together on their own. I then approached Stevie Bull, a musician I had known from the Mojo Cams and a record producer at Ham and Egg Studio in Stevenston, Scotland. He took the song and created the recording that is now being used to generate funds for the Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond Charity.
I also owe a massive thanks to Jojo Lowely and her partner Andy who promoted and sold the song at her gigs. It has been an honour and pleasure to be able to be involved with this charity and I hope that the families affected can find some support and strength from its members, as they work every minute of every day to help you find your loved one.
I give full permission for The Missing Person and Beyond Charity to have the right to use this song to raise funds for their cause.
Donate
Help us to support missing persons & their families...
In the U.K someone goes missing every 2 minutes & the impact this has is immense.
We rely solely on your donations to support people and 100% of monies go to help missing people, their families, & research to reunite long lost family & friends.
Every penny counts and any donation is truly appreciated - whether one-off or a recurring payment.
You can pay via PayPal - they deduct 1.4% +£0.20 per transaction.
You can also pay direct to our bank account where 100% of your payment will be received - please Contact Us
if you would prefer this method.
Missing Persons U.K. and Beyond
125 Parkside Street
Rosyth
Fife
KY11 2NF
Contact us
Call: 0800 246 1093
Text: 07592455054
Email: missingpersonsukandbeyond2018@yahoo.com
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