Are you Flood Ready

With Winter approaching the Environment Agency is campaigning to get our communities flood ready. They are running a Flood Action Campaign between the 2nd and 13th November.

Take a look at their website for more information


Kind Regards


Paul Robertson

table Top Exercise

We are currently arranging a table top exercise with our partners at the Environment Agency in December to test our Flood Plan and see where it can be improved.

Anyone fancy building a model of BoA!

More information will be supplied in due course.

Kind Regards



Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

Getting Ready For Winter...

We have now received our Grit Bins from Wiltshire Council as part of our Town Snow Plan. A huge thank you to the Highways team for their help and support in this. Just need to sort out the grit scoops now!

Our newly installed grit bins in place

Please note these grit bins are for CEV use only in accordance with our agreed snow plan. Grit bins for public use are yellow in colour without any padlocks

Kind Regards



Paul Robertson

CEV Senior Coordinator

 

Register with Wessex Water Customer Plus

Wessex Water have a similar scheme to register vulnerable customers 'Customer Plus':

https://forms.wessexwater.co.uk/addressform.aspx?ekfrm=100

If you think you might be eligible or know someone who could be please do fill in the form


Kind Regards


Paul Robertson


Senior CEV Coordinator

Utitlies Training Notes....

Our Utilities training Notes are now up on our blog training page. Please feel free to browse

  


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Paul Robertson


Senior CEV Coordinator

SSEPD Register and App

Two very useful things to do. If you have a smart phone download the SSEPD App http://news.ssepd.co.uk/news/all-articles/2015/01/our-ssepd-powertrack-app/ to keep you up to date on power outages in your area. Also if you know vulnerable people in your area (Elderly, disabled, with babies etc) sign up to the SSEPD Priority Services Register https://www.ssepd.co.uk/PriorityServices/ and they will ensure you are ok in an emergency.

Kind Regards



Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

Utilites Training Evening...

Many thanks to Nick and Helen from SSEPD and Lianne from Wessex Water for providing us with such an informative training session last night. Sorry you couldn't make it to the evening yourself Lianne but our best wishes for your speedy recovery from a very nasty cold that has laid you low. I did my best to stand in and all the volunteers agreed it was an interesting evening.

Nick from SSEPD (On the left) explaining about their fine model

A close up of the model showing how their grid works in a crisis

Our resident Electrical Engineer taking a keen interest!

Nick Explaining the finer points of power distribution

 

This was our first meeting back in the Fire Stations rebuilt meeting room and very nice it was to!

 

 

Next month is Wiltshire Search and Rescue - I for one am looking forward to it

 

 

Kind Regards

 

 

 

Paul Robertson

 

 

Senior CEV Coordinator

Wessex Water and SSEPD Confirmed...

Wessex Water and SSEPD have both confirmed they will be at our utilities training night on the 14th October. Looking forward to a very interesting evening chatting about everything electric and water related!

 

Hope to see you there


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Paul Robertson

Big thankyou to the British red Cross...

Many thanks to the British Red Cross for the 5 boxes of flood sacks, 3 boxes of disposable toilets, and one box of fresh drinking water.

A Selection of items delivered from the British Red Cross

 

And how it got to us (via Wessex 4 x 4)

 

Many thanks to Jo at BRC and Norman at W4x4 for helping us out.


Kind Regards



Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

New Supplies....

Many thanks to the British Red Cross for supplying us with disposable toilets, bottled water and more flood sacks. This is much appreciated and will help us to have a more effective response to a flood in our community.

Thanks also to Wessex 4x4 for helping to transport the material to our storage container in Bradford on Avon. What a great demonstration of the voluntary sector coming together to build community resilience!

 

 

Kind regards


Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

Public Health Training Notes Now Up...

The training notes from last night are now up on our training notes page


Kind regards



Paul Robertson