Wraysbury & Horton Resilience

Supporting our community — before, during and after an emergency

Wraysbury & Horton Resilience (WHR) is a local volunteer organisation helping residents of Wraysbury and Hortonprepare for emergencies, stay informed when something happens, and find help and support when they need it.

Whether you want to check the current risk, prepare your household, or simply need help with a problem:

We’re here to help.

Is Something Happening Now?

Our Current Risk Status:

Alert Status UpdateJuly 31, 2026

There are currently no health alerts or other expected risks to our community.

Whilst we have identified no community-wide risks, we advise residents to remain vigilant and mindful to protect themselves, their neighbours and our wider community. We should be aware of risks to individual households, such as scams, cybercrime and theft. Always stay aware, and use this opportunity to prepare ourselves for any potential problems.

Use the guidance on our website to protect yourselves.

WHR monitors official warnings and information that may affect our community, including:

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Heat-Health and Cold-Health Alerts
Environment Agency Flood Alerts and Flood Warnings
other significant local risks where appropriate.

Our Risk Status helps residents understand what is happening and what they should do next.

If an alert or warning is in force, follow the advice in the current Risk Update.

What does our Risk Status mean?

❓What Do You Need?

🚨 Something Is Happening

I need to know what to do now

Check current alerts and find practical guidance for:

Flooding • Extreme Heat • Extreme Cold • Power Cut

🛡️ I Want to Be Prepared

Don’t wait for an emergency

Simple preparation can make you, your family and your home much more resilient when something does happen.

Prepare for:

Flooding • Extreme Heat • Extreme Cold • Power Cuts

🛡️Prepare

🤝 I Need Some Help

Not sure where to start? Start with us.

WHR provides free, confidential Help & Support for residents of all ages.

Your question does not have to be about emergencies, health, benefits or vulnerability.

If we can help, we will. If we can’t, we will endeavour to identify and signpost you to the most appropriate source of help.

🤝Help & Support

🛡️Prepare for Emergencies

A little preparation now can make a big difference later

Our Resilience Guidance pages combine official advice with practical local preparedness information for residents of Wraysbury and Horton.

🌊 Flooding

Understand Environment Agency warnings, make a household flood plan, prepare your property and know what to do locally when flooding looks likely.

🌊 Flooding

☀️ Extreme Summer Weather

Understand UKHSA Heat-Health Alerts, prepare your home for hot weather, recognise heat-related illness and know who may need additional help.

☀️Extreme Summer Heat

❄️ Extreme Winter Weather

Understand UKHSA Cold-Health Alerts, prepare for severe cold, keep yourself and your home warm and recognise when someone is becoming unwell.

❄️Extreme Winter Cold

⚡ Power Cuts

Prepare for an outage, know how to report a power cut, protect vulnerable household members and understand Priority Services Registers.

⚡Power Cuts

🤝Help & Support

Help isn’t only for emergencies

WHR provides free, friendly and confidential help for residents of all ages.

You do not need to be elderly, vulnerable, receiving benefits or experiencing a crisis.

You can ask us about almost anything.

We may be able to help directly, research reliable information with you, or identify another organisation better placed to help.

You don’t need to know where to start. Start with us.

🤝Help & Support

❤️Other Ways We Can Help

📝Vulnerable Residents Register

If an emergency could leave you unable to manage safely without additional help, consider registering with WHR.

📝Vulnerable Register

🫂 Social Isolation & Loneliness

Feeling isolated or simply want more connection?

Find practical ideas, local activities and ways WHR can help.

🫂Social Isolation

🛡️ Scam Checker

Received something suspicious?

Stop – Think – Check.

Use our interactive Scam Checker, find out what to do if you’ve already responded, and get our Scam-Check cards and guidance.

🛡️Scam Checker

💡 Not Sure What You Need?

Your problem doesn’t have to fit one of our categories.

Tell us what’s happening and we’ll help you work out the next step.

If we can’t help directly, we’ll assist you in finding help.

💡Help & Support

Priority Services — Register Before You Need Them

If age, disability, health or another circumstance could make disruption to essential services particularly difficult, consider joining the appropriate utility Priority Services Registers.

Remember:

There is no single registration you should assume covers every service.

Your utility Priority Services Registers and the WHR Vulnerable Residents Register serve different purposes.

FIND OUT MORE

I’d link this directly to the “Register With Your Utilities Too” anchor on the Vulnerable Register page rather than duplicating all the information here.

❤️Help Us Look Out for Each Other

Community resilience isn’t only about emergencies.

A resilient community is one where people:

prepare themselves
know where to find reliable information
look out for neighbours
recognise when somebody may need help
share appropriate information
volunteer where they can
know where to turn when something goes wrong.

Sometimes helping can be as simple as checking on a neighbour during hot weather, making a telephone call to somebody who lives alone, or helping someone find the right source of advice.