How to get involved
Join us for #30days - and beyond!
Join #30days30waysUK – it’s easy and free – EVERYONE welcome
FOLLOW @30days30waysUK and hashtag #30days30waysUK throughout ‘September is Preparedness Month’, access the daily resources shared by partners and follow their social media accounts year round to stay updated.
DOWLOAD the bingo PDF or JPG, available from August. Each daily #30days30waysUK topic has a corresponding icon to cross off. That way it is easy and fun to keep track of your personal preparedness progress. All 30 days completed? BINGO
WATCH the weekly panels live or on YouTube catchup.
TAKE PART in our annual household preparedness survey
The 2025 campaign will see organisations from across the UK sharing their best practice with another bumper filled month of preparedness challenges for you, which will be the campaign’s eleventh year!
You can still access all content via last year’s @30days30swaysUK masterthread or on X, using the #30days30waysUK search string (formerly twitter).
Contribute positively
How you can help
Our aim is to empower people from all walks of life to get better prepared for all kinds of emergencies at minimal cost. This needs a lot of positive energy because talking about crises that should never turn into a disaster can be tricky. Fear is a poor motivator, not very useful at inspiring potentially life saving preparatory actions. This is why we use an intuitive, fun bingo game element and a positive psychology approach with humour and a light touch throughout the campaign. Please keep it that way.
- Share posts to help raise awareness
- Like posts when you think they’re good
- Reply to posts sharing your experience or free quality resources
- Stay on topic, everyday is a different theme
- Keep it positive so that everyone can learn and feel welcome and included,#BeKind.
- Critical feedback is welcome in the right place: please fill out the feedback questionnaire at the end of the campaign or email your queries at 30days30waysUK@the-eps.org.
Our small, dedicated volunteer team will be in touch as soon as possible.
Trolls will be reported, ignored or blocked to the benefit of all that want to share and learn.
Please don’t….
- use the wrong hashtag; in the UK please use the full #30days30waysUK
- ‘hard sell’ anything! Instead, post links to quality free information and resources only
- ‘soapbox’ or ‘spam’, no one likes nuisance. Please treat our hashtag #30days30waysUK like an interesting and lighthearted discussion amongst new and old friends rather than just blasting your content. Welcome people, encourage engagement positively.
Household Preparedness Survey
How prepared are you?
Emergencies: how prepared are you?
Since 2015, the #30days30waysUK campaign aims to inspire and empower people to be more ’emergency ready’. Our public survey has its roots in the 2008 ‘Place Survey’ carried out across all Local Authorities in England and the original 2013 ‘How Prepared Are You’ Northamptonshire survey.
Our yearly follow on survey runs since 2019 and invites everyone in the UK to take part. It is anonymous and contributes to ongoing research by 30days30waysUK and Local Resilience Forums. Findings are published alongside our annual report via ‘about us‘.
Insight on UK Household Emergency Preparedness
Sadly, our understanding of individual, household and community preparedness is extremely limited. Few surveys have taken place to date and none have been repeated longitudinally. We aim to change this. Our short questionnaire is anonymous, only asking for your postcode for geographically useful information. After all, emergency preparedness in Manchester looks quite different from Cornwall. Anyone over 18 can take part.
The survey link will be posted here and shared via social media as soon as it goes live.
More on how to get involved
Want to get involved?
If you are a UK charity/NGO consider becoming a day host/lead for a specific theme or simply get on board in September by following and sharing our daily themes. Join the conversation on social media sharing your expertise and resources.
For questions or information or how to access campaign materials simply contact us on social media or via 30days30waysuk@the-eps.org.
If you are a UK practitioner or individual connected to or interested in disaster risk reduction, emergency planning, business continuity etc. simply follow and share our daily themes, join the conversation on social media.
If you are interested in getting pro-actively involved with #30days30waysUK, for example in building and expanding topics and themes, please get in touch on social media or via 30days30waysuk@the-eps.org. We would love to hear from you.
If you are outside of the UK an individual or an organisation interested in raising awareness for emergency and disaster preparedness and learning via social media, why not adopt and adapt our approach for your country or area?
Take a look at our international approach and vision and explore this site for inspiration and links.
The #30days30waysUK approach is easily transferable using ISO alpha-2 country codes.
