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We live in a relatively safe and stable society where we expect infrastructure to function as intended. Yet, life in Moray depends on power, water supply and the internet – which in turn makes us vulnerable. Storms, pandemics, natural disasters or technical problems can result in power outages, water supply cut-offs or a lack of essential goods.
The Moray Council have been working together with Community Councils to support Community Resilience Groups (CRGs) to develop preparedness in their area. CRGs are volunteers in your Community, who lead on developing and executing a local Community Emergency Plan. Although there is no statutory responsibility for communities to develop emergency plans, it is in the best interest of a community to identify risks and make simple plans on how they could support residents to respond to them.
It is very important for a community to think about, and plan for, what they will do in an emergency before it happens. This could significantly reduce the risks to members of the community.
What is a Resilience Group
The Resilience Group is a collection of volunteers who are ready to respond and deploy when a CRG Emergency Plan is activated. They would work with the Plan Co-ordinators to be a point of contact for local residents.
Community Emergency Plans will include details of volunteers which are not publicly available so contact with you would be intiated through us.
You can help
If you want to get involved and help your Community Resilience Group and want further information about becoming a volunteer please contact us.
If a CRG Emergency Plan is activated, you would work with us be a point of contact for local residents. Community Emergency Plans will include details of volunteers which are not publicly available so contact with you would be intiated through us.
How can you help
Here are some examples of how members of the community can support the resilience plan by:
- Volunteering to be included on the Resilience Group contact list. They would then be the main point of contact for the Resilience Co-ordinator to monitor their locality
- Volunteering to support with equipment. Examples of this could be to agree to be called out if they had possession of a chainsaw and were prepared to be called out if needed to remove fallen trees etc. Or if they had a 4 x 4 and would be prepared to transport vulnerable members of the community to safe, warm spaces when needed.
- Offering to allow use of any premises which could be used as a warm dry safe place.
If you care about your community and would like to know more about the resilience Plan, or how you could help, please contact us.
You can download a guidance booklet aimed at promoting personal and household resilience. The aim of the booklet is to provide clear, simple and practical advice to help you prepare for an emergency. It also gives advice on preparing your household emergency plan. A lot of the information may seem common sense, but it has saved lives in the past.