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


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Paul Robertson

A Fascinating Evening on Public Health...

Tonight we had Deborah Haynes from Wiltshire Council come to speak to us on Public Health issues including Pandemics, Viruses, and other nasties that could give us all a nasty surprise! Deborah's enthusiasm for her subject really shone through, and it was a really interesting evening to find out just what local Public Health has to plan for and how we might be able to help, from distributing leaflets, acting as flu buddies to helping to man rest centres.

A big thank you to Deborah for sparing an evening to come and talk to us - it was much appreciated and made a nice change from learning about floods and snow!!

Next month is Utilities failures. Wessex water have conformed their attendance. Just need to confirm SSEPD.


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Paul Robertson

Public Health Training Night....

On the 30th September we resume our training nights again and this time we are concentrating on Public Health. Pandemic Flu is the No 1 emergency planning risk so with the benefit of Deborah Haynes from Wiltshire Council's Public Health Team we are going to find out how the different agencies plan for such an event and what we as volunteers can do to help our local communities.

Should be an interesting night!

We're meeting at the Town Hall this month as the Fire station meeting room is currently being renovated

Look forward to seeing you there


Kind Regards


Paul Robertson


Senior CEV Coordinator.

Weather warning for Rain tomorrow...

There is a weather warning for heavy rain over Wiltshire and the South West for tomorrow and into thursday. (See Adjacent Met Office Weather warning widget. Take care when driving and avoid driving through flood water if you come across any.

Keep safe out there


Kind Regards



Paul Robertson


Senior CEV Coordinator

The Emergency Services Show 2015....

Had a great time at the Emergency Services Show 2015 today. Bumped into some friends of ours including, Wiltshire Council Emergency Planning Team, The Environment Agency, British Red Cross, and Serve On. Also made contact with Wilsar and Wessex 4x4

 

The British Red Cross Stand (We'll happily take your floodsacks!)

 

The Local Resilience Forum Stand

 

Swindon's Community Resilience Mobile Command Post (Anyone fancy sponsoring one for us!)

 

 

 

The Police Community Volunteers have their own smart Volvo!

 

 

The Wilsar Stand (Hope to see them at our training evening in November)

 

 

Wiltshire Police's new bronze command vehicle (Only on its second outing - smelt very new inside!)

 

 

 

My children thought the best thing of the day was the ice cream and stone baked Pizzas! Oh well - I'll make volunteers of them yet!

 

 

 

Kind Regards

 

 

 

Paul Robertson

 

 

Senior CEV Coordinator