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Hostage UK has been formed mainly by people who have direct experience of kidnapping - either they have been kidnapped themselves, are members of a family that has had a family member kidnapped, or have some professional involvement with kidnapping. They are aware of the problems both during and after the kidnap.

Hostage UK has three core aims:

The provision of specialist services for both the family and the hostage, during and after the kidnap;
Education for organisations sending employees to kidnap hotspots to help them lower the risk, improve their response, and highlight to them the needs of families;
Advocacy and campaigning to influence public policy and the policies and practices of organisations sending employees to kidnap hotspots.

The charity draws on an experienced board of trustees:
Terry Waite CBE, chair of trustees and former hostage negotiator and hostage;
Sandra Singer, Vice Chair, former Red Cross and ICRC, incl. hostage release and family support
Carlo Laurenzi OBE, former director of Prisoners Abroad
Phil Bigley, brother of former hostage in Iraq
Sue Williams QPM, former head of the Met Police’s hostage unit, now a specialist kidnap consultant

For more information, contact Hostage UK Director, Rachel Briggs: rachel@hostageuk.org