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Has your community suffered from flooding, extreme weather, fire or any kind of emergency?

Are you worried about how your community might cope if it did?

Come along to our Emergency Planning Information Event

Date and time: Tuesday 21 November 9.30am – 12.30pm

Location: Main Hall, Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory Street, York YO1 6ET

Why do you need an emergency plan?

Emergency Plans can cover anything from designating a community building as a refuge centre, recruiting volunteers to check on vulnerable residents or identifying the owners of useful vehicles. They equip community leaders to organise an effective response to an emergency, and help local residents to understand what they need to do should the worst happen.

We are working with North Yorkshire County Council’s Community Resilience Team to help rural communities across the county put vital Emergency Plans in place.

At our Emergency Planning Information Event you will:

• Find out more about what is involved in creating a Community Emergency Plan
• Hear about the expert support that is available to help you
• Learn from communities who have gone through the process themselves.

There will be an opportunity for you to ask any questions you have, and we will be updating you on our work to help individual households put their own Emergency Plans together.

Who should attend?

Community leaders and parish council members.

Booking details

The event is completely free and light refreshments will be included. To help us with catering arrangements, please book a place online here ,  email our Emergency Planning Officer, James Russell, or call 01904 704 177.

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Event Programme

• 9.30am: Registration and breakfast sandwiches, tea, coffee and soft drinks
• 10:00am: Presentations start, with an opportunity for questions at the end
• 12:00am: Further networking and one-to-one advice
• 12.30am: Event closes

Venue

Travel Information: The Priory Street Centre is close to York Railway Station.  There is no car parking on site but there are various car parks around the railway station. York also has extensive Park & Ride facilities for those arriving by car – Priory Street Centre is a 5-15 minute walk from the bus stop, depending which Park & Ride is used. More details here.

Acknowledgements

The Emergency Planning Project is made possible thanks to the support of the North Yorkshire Recovery Fund and Two Ridings Community Foundation.