South Coast Civil Resilience (SCCR)
Civil resilience in Hampshire
Residents join free. Continuity plans and exercises for the buildings that have to stay open.
Hampshire is where the network started, in the week in October 2026 when the government asked every household to be ready for three days without power, water or communications. The towns along the Solent come first, then the rest of the county.
The network covers Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Basingstoke, Gosport, Fareham, Havant, Eastleigh, Andover, Aldershot, Farnborough, Petersfield, Lymington and the New Forest.
Residents in Hampshire
Membership is free. Members are people on the same streets who have done the basics at home and know each other's names before anything happens. Residents and neighbours.
Organisations in Hampshire
Care homes, schools, surgeries and the firms in Hampshire that have to stay open when the services stop are expected to hold a continuity plan that has been tested. I write the plan for the building you actually have, test it with you and the staff on duty in the working day, and write the test up and date it for the file. Continuity plans and exercises.
The local resilience forum
South Coast Civil Resilience is independent and civilian. In an emergency, call 999. The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum publishes its guidance for community groups, including a community emergency plan template, at hiowprepared.org.uk. The network sits alongside it, not in its place.