Find out information on how to sign up for flooding alerts, how to prepare for emergencies, salting and gritting advice and much more.
- Advice for businesses on preparing for winter
- Booking safe and well visits
- Fire safety during the cost of living crisis
- Flooding advice
- Grit bins
- Help for children and families at risk in winter
- Preparing your home for emergencies
- Prepare your community for emergencies
- Power, gas and water failure advice
- Roads and transport update
- Salting and gritting facts
- Sign up flooding and weather alerts
Financial and Welfare support
If you are in need of support this winter, there is information including, tips and contact details for your essential services in our Welfare Hub.
Here you can find information on government health and welfare support and benefits, including:
- Cost of living support
- Pension Credit
- Winter Fuel Payments
- Cold Weather Payments
Warm welcome
Between 1 November and end of March over 80 Warm Welcome venues are available as places to get warm, have a free hot drink and socialise with others. No one needs to feel cold or alone. All Welcome. Find a Warm Welcome near you.
Winter advice and information
Advice about telephone scammers
Buckinghamshire and ßÙßÇÂþ» Trading Standards are encouraging people with vulnerable family or friends to support them in applying for a free* trueCall device.
This is a small piece of equipment that plugs into your landline phone socket and automatically blocks unwanted calls. Instead of you trying to work out what's genuine and what's not, it lets your friends and family straight through to talk to you but blocks everyone else.
For more information, see Stop telephone scammers this Christmas.