Resilient Rattery Update

The Resilient Rattery Group is making good progress with plans to deal with the current emergency.

In most cases people who are confined at home are being helped out by their friends and neighbours  but we have a growing register of volunteers and a help line to provide back up. Details on the parish website.

We are now looking into setting up an easily and locally accessible supply of foodstuffs should that prove to be necessary.

The situation in general is developing rapidly and no doubt there will be challenges to meet in the next few months.

If you have ideas and suggestions please share them on the email exchange or send them to email@ratteryvillage.co.uk or phone one of the help line numbers 01364 72239, 01364 642694 or 07957 136987.

Coronavirus Emergency in Rattery

As you can imagine a quite a number of people are giving some thought as to how we deal with the issues likely to occur over the next few weeks.

The Parish Council discussed the matter at our meeting on Tuesday when our District and County Councillors were present. We will be receiving advice from both of those councils but obviously we should be doing all we can ourselves. You may have seen our subsequent post on the email exchange and the correspondence which followed by which people, not surprisingly in Rattery, are volunteering to help.

At this stage the key actions are to identify people who are vulnerable and make sure that they know that help is available and how to access it. We imagine that in most cases neighbours will look after neighbours, but we need back up.

We also need to get the message to parishioners who are neither on the email exchange nor regular users of the parish website.

It is clearly a good idea that, working with the parish council, the Resilient Rattery Group take the lead in organising our community response. This open-ended group brings together a wide range of people with lots of expertise. Could you help?

We need to be planning for a whole range of contingencies and your ideas and suggestions are essential. Post your ideas on the email exchange or send them to any of the parish councillors or to the secretary of the Resilient Rattery group, Kim Howard. 

Contact details are on the parish website.