emergency response volunteers
Volunteers are often the unsung heroes of disasters world-wide.
Local volunteer groups are always looking for new recruits. You could choose to be deployed to scenes of emergencies, or help behind the scenes with administration or fund-raising.
Working with a volunteer group is an opportunity to put something back into your community; it can be rewarding, sociable and fun.
The following two emergency response groups have been supporting the emergency services and communities in Broadland and North Norfolk for many years.
norfolk civil protection volunteers
For more than twenty years the NCPV, now based in Aylsham, has been turning out in in an emergency in support the emergency services, other volunteer agencies and the community. Able to provide large-scale feeding, search, communications, rescue, shelter and general support, they are unique.
With the support of Broadland and North Norfolk District Councils, they provide a 24/7 callout response to any form of emergency, including unexploded bombs, missing person searches and fires as well as assisting with support and training exercises across the county.
raynet
Founded following the floods of 1953, RAYNET (Radio Amateurs Emergency Network) is a non-commercial voluntary organisation of radio amateurs who can provide both short and long range radio communications at short notice. When everything else fails, they will still be working.
They have permanently equipped bases at County Hall, Broadland District Council, St John's Ambulance HQ in Norwich and Police HQ in Wymondham.
When needed RAYNET can provide highly effective and reliable radio links for their user services, who include:
- The 'blue-light'
- Emergency services
- Health authorities
- Government departments
- Public utilities
- Local authority emergency planning units
documents
community emergency response plans [PDF, 178 Kb]
related pages
external links
norwich & norfolk voluntary services
radio amateurs' emergency network (raynet) - norfolk
radio amateurs' emergency network (raynet) - uk
contact us
| Emergency Planning Unit |
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| Broadland District Council Thorpe Lodge 1 Yarmouth Road Thorpe St Andrew Norwich NR7 0DU |
| tel: 01603 430643 |
| fax: 01603 430616 |
| email: emergency-planning@broadland.gov.uk |