The Ready Household: UK Emergency Planner (Homefront Ready)

The UK Government is encouraging households across the UK to be ready for emergencies, from severe weather to cyber attacks. This planner gets your home ready in an evening.

Most UK emergencies are a winter power cut, a burst main or a storm that closes the roads. The Ready Household turns good intentions into a finished plan, so everyone knows what to do and where everything is.

Short on time? Start with page 2: five jobs in 20 minutes.

What's inside:

• The planner: 55 A4 pages, fillable and print-friendly
• Start here: 5 things in 20 minutes
• Our Plan: key UK numbers, contacts, shut-offs, meeting points, medical info and documents
• Home & Kits: a 72-hour kit, grab bags, Starter, Standard and Plus shopping lists (about £53, £139 and £413), a water calculator and a no-cook meal plan
• 8 playbooks for power cuts, floods, storms, water outages, heatwaves, evacuation and no phone signal, each with a fridge summary
• People & Pets: a kids' explainer, pets plan, neighbour check-ins and the Priority Services Register
• Keep It Current: an expiry tracker, review log and wallet cards
• Ink-saver edition for home printers
• Phone pack: 12 offline images for your phone
• Bonus A4 wall poster

Fill it in on your laptop, then print a copy, because paper still works in a power cut.

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