Who is your plan for

Most Community Emergency Plans will be made for a ’geographical community’ or place. This can mean one or more neighbourhoods in a city, a town, a village, or even a street.

Communities can also be made up of people who are connected through shared interests, activities and faith. When you are thinking about who your plan is for, and who you will want to help you produce it, you should think about the different kinds of communities in your area (and neighbouring areas), that may need to work together and help each other in an emergency. You can consider all sorts of factors, for example – race, age, gender, disability, religion, and shared interests.

It may help you to gather background information on your community, such as a map of the area covered, which includes things like:

• main roads and rail lines
• rivers, lochs and other water courses
• community facilities like schools, village halls and care homes
• grit bins
• anything else that’s important to your community