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:

Heat health alert updated for the South EastAugust 3, 2026
The amber heat health alert is in effect from9AM on 03/08/2026 until 9AM on 05/08/2026 across the South East. The amber alert has a matrix score of 12. This means:

Significant impacts are likely across health and social care services due to the high temperatures, including:
- a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions. There may also be impacts on younger age groups
- likely increased demand on all health and social care services
- internal temperatures in care settings (hospitals and care homes) may exceed the recommended threshold for clinical risk assessment
- the heat affecting the ability of the workforce to deliver services
- indoor environments overheating increasing the risk to vulnerable people living independently in community and care settings
- issues managing medicines
- staffing issues due to external factors (for example, affecting transport)
- increased demand for power exceeding capacity
- other sector starting to observe impacts (for example, travel delays)
- water-related incidents may increase, including risks from cold-water shock and drowning
For more information on coping with extreme summer heat, click Here

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

🧠Worried about your Brain Health?

Want to find out how you might reduce the risks of dementia?

Brain Health Lifestyle Info & Assessment

📝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.