Q&A with Dave Grimstead
Wed 04 Sept
|Seat Unique Stadium
Join us for our talk this week with co-founder of the UK charity Locate International, Dave Grimstead.
Time & Location
04 Sept 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Seat Unique Stadium, Nevil Rd, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 9EJ, UK
About the event
This week’s guest speaker is co-founder of the UK charity Locate International, Dave Grimstead.
Over the last five years Dave led an entirely volunteer organisation providing over 120,000 operational hours in 2023 to support families and police with long-term missing and unidentified people investigations at no cost to them.
Inspired when watching a team of RNLI volunteers responding to a call for help from those in danger at sea, Dave presented an idea at the International Conference Missing Children and Adults at Liverpool University to develop professionally trained volunteers, drawn from the heart of our communities to review unsolved missing and unidentified people investigations.
There are over 13,000 people missing or unidentified for over a year in the UK. This could take over 14,000 working days of valuable police time each year to review. Locate combine community volunteers with police, public and industry resources to provide an independent investigation in…