Missing People charity encourages Everything Stops for Tea parties in support of lost loved ones
Get Surrey has joined forces with the Missing People charity for its Everything Stops for Tea campaign.
The new initiative is asking people to hold a special tea party for family, friends and colleagues on or around Friday (March 20).
Everything Stops for Tea is being championed by Missing People ambassador Fiona Philips, who promoted the campaign at a tea party with parents of missing people Sarah Godwin, Peter Lawrence and Peter Boxell at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on March 3.
Mrs Godwin's son Quentin went missing in May 1992 while they were living in New Zealand. He was 18-years-old when he left and never returned. The family returned to live in Surrey three years after his disappearance.
Quentin Godwin
Mrs Godwin, who lives in Dunsfold, said: It is a community focused on getting people who are supporting Missing People to organise a tea party. It could be small in your home, a community hall or the pub.
The aim is to get people together particularly to hear about the whole campaign and the work of Missing People and understand how essential they are, have a chat and natter and enjoy themselves.
Mrs Godwin described Quentin as being quiet when he was a little boy, but in all respects a normal child who loved spending time outdoors. He was interested in bee keeping, built his own bee hives and kept his own bees.
When he went missing I did not know anybody who had a missing child or a missing loved one," she said.
"You can't talk about it easily to your best friend. It is hard to imagine what it is like.
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