Community

8 pages. Grouped by what each page covers.

Communications 1

Communications when networks fail
What stops working in a power cut or a phone and broadband outage, what may still work, and the written numbers, radio and agreed meeting po

Flood action groups
What a community group can do about flooding, from the free warnings to sign up for and the services to check, to the actions the Be Ready p

Checking on neighbours
What the government's Be Ready pages, the Priority Services Register and the British Red Cross say about knowing who lives near you, agreein
The community emergency group
Who stands behind a community plan, as the resilience forum templates describe them, from the emergency coordinators and volunteers to the k

Getting help to start
Where a new group finds a template, training and support, from the local resilience forum and the council's emergency planning team to Commu
Places of safety and rest centres
What a rest centre is, who opens one, and what the Hampshire and Isle of Wight template says about a community building used as an initial p
Writing a community emergency plan
The sections the Hampshire and Isle of Wight resilience forum template asks a group to fill in, and what the Dorset template calls a plan, w

Volunteering in an emergency
Why the government asks people not to turn up at the scene, where calls for help come from, and the voluntary organisations that train volun