A free, interactive emergency preparedness scenario for you and your family. Get your home ready to look after the people you love for three days, and know exactly what to do when it happens.
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Here's a first look at Ready at Home. You'll see a home just like yours, and every choice you make plays out on screen.
The video has no sound. It shows the scenes listed below: choosing a house or a flat, a living room as the lights go out with the question "What would you do first?", torchlight in a dark hallway, torchlight on food in a fridge with the words "Enough for 3 days, for everyone in your home", rain on a window with houses in darkness, and a kitchen in grey morning light. It ends with "Coming soon".
A house or a flat. Pick the one that's most like where you and your family live.
It's a wet evening and the power's just gone. What's the first thing you'd do?
Where's your torch? Could the rest of your family find it?
Food, water, medicines. Would they last you all three days?
Is it just your street? Where would you get news you can trust?
Still no power. How will you keep everyone warm, fed and safe today?
Ready at Home · free
Work out exactly what you and your family need for three days at home, using the government's Be Ready checklist, and spot the gaps.
Agree who in your family does what when the lights go out, and practise it before you ever need it.
Know when sheltering at home is the safest choice, how to keep warm and safe, and where to get trusted updates.
Make a plan with your neighbours and relatives, especially anyone who lives alone or needs extra support.
If something goes wrong, you can go back and try a different choice. It will work on a phone, tablet or computer, with no login, and it'll be free, so you can do it together at the kitchen table.
Two-minute self-check
Answer honestly. Nobody else sees this, and nothing is saved.
The UK Government's Be Ready campaign asks everyone to be ready to manage at home for 3 days. Ready at Home builds on that advice and helps you and your family put it into practice. You'll find the official checklist and household emergency plan at beready.campaign.gov.uk.
In Scotland, see Ready Scotland. In Northern Ireland, see nidirect.
Emergency planning, made practical
Be Ready is the UK Government's campaign to help households prepare for emergencies. It asks everyone to be ready to manage at home for 3 days if an emergency disrupts the services we rely on, from severe weather to a cyber attack. The official site, beready.campaign.gov.uk, has a checklist and a household emergency plan you can print.
Be Ready at Home is independent and isn't part of the campaign. It helps you and your family put that advice into practice.
The official Be Ready checklist suggests:
Sit down together and agree who does what. Write down important phone numbers on paper, plan how you'd get out in a fire or flood, and choose a place to meet. Think about anyone who might need extra help, such as a neighbour or relative who lives alone. The government has a household emergency plan you can print, and Ready at Home ends with an action plan you can fill in.
Sheltering in place means staying safely inside your home during an emergency rather than going out. The simple rule is go in, stay in, tune in: get indoors, stay there, and listen to local radio or check official updates. But if your home becomes unsafe, or the emergency services tell you to leave, follow their instructions.
Use a torch rather than candles. Check whether it's just your home or the whole street, then report it or get updates by calling 105 (in Northern Ireland, 03457 643643). Keep the fridge and freezer closed, keep warm, and check on neighbours who might need help. If anyone in your home relies on power for medical equipment, join the Priority Services Register. Call 999 if someone is in immediate danger.
Local radio and TV news, the Met Office for weather warnings, and the UK's Emergency Alerts service, which can send a warning to mobile phones in an area where there's a danger to life. Keep a battery or wind-up radio in case the power and mobile signal go.
Yes. When it launches, Ready at Home, the power-cut scenario, will be free, with no login, and will work on a phone, tablet or computer. My plan and numbers and our guide Ready on a tight budget are free to use now. Further modules on storms, flooding, long power cuts, cyber attacks and wildfires are being developed as paid modules.
Yes. If you're an employer, housing provider or community group and want to help your people get ready for emergencies, get in touch through the sign-up form and tick “For an organisation”.
Free · works without internet
If the power goes, so can the internet. Save the numbers you'd need, your household plan and your 3-day kit checklist on your phone, and they'll still open when you're offline. What you type stays on your device.
Free guide
You don't need to buy a kit. Start with what costs nothing: a plan, numbers on paper and water from your own tap. Then build up one item at a time, with what you can spare.
Cyber attack, total power loss, wildfires, storms and flooding. Each one is a scenario you work through, not a list of tips.
Start with the free module. The others go deeper into specific emergencies and are being designed now. Register your interest and we'll let you know when each one's ready.
"The lights have just gone out. What do you do first?"
Get your home ready to look after you and your family for three days, and practise what to do on the night. Choose a house or a flat. No login, works on any device. Watch the preview
These will be paid modules. Prices will be confirmed at launch. Each one ends with clear, practical steps you can take.
"One payment for your household. Every module as it launches."
Pay once, with no subscription, and unlock all five modules below and their action plans as each one is ready. Ready at Home stays free.
"Card payments are down, the cash machine's empty and your phone has no signal. Now what?"
Cope when payment systems, phones and the internet fail across the country.
"It isn't a two-hour power cut. It's day three."
Keep you and your family warm, fed, safe and informed through a long, widespread blackout.
"You can smell smoke and the sky's turning orange. Do you stay or go?"
Prepare your home, recognise the warning signs and know when to leave.
"A red weather warning's been issued for tomorrow. What will you do tonight?"
Get ready before the storm arrives, stay safe while it passes and deal with the aftermath.
"The water's at the end of your street. What do you move first?"
Check your flood risk, protect your home and family, and know when to get out.
Practical training that turns emergency advice into things you've actually done.
Most of us have read advice about being prepared. Fewer of us have done anything about it. How many people do you know who could put their hand on a torch in the dark tonight?
So rather than another checklist, Be Ready at Home puts you in the situation. You make the decisions, you see what happens, and you finish with a home that's genuinely more ready than when you started.
I'm Simon House. For 20 years I've designed and delivered training that helps people do things differently, not just know more. Be Ready at Home, from my company Simon House Ltd, brings that to something that matters to every one of us: keeping the people we love safe at home.
It's built around real situations and lots of questions that make you think about your own home and your own family. What would you actually do?
Be Ready at Home is an independent training service from Simon House Ltd. It isn't part of, or endorsed by, the UK Government or its Be Ready campaign. The content follows the official guidance at beready.campaign.gov.uk, and I'd encourage everyone to read it.
We're thinking about putting together a 72-hour home emergency kit: the things your household would need to manage at home for 3 days, apart from water, in one bag. It isn't on sale and we're not taking orders. Before we decide, we'd like to know whether it would really help you.
Everything would follow the UK Government's Be Ready checklist. For example:
Two versions. A full kit with food for 3 days, or a smaller core kit without food. The core kit comes with a 3-day shopping list card, so you can add food your family already likes.
Kept up to date for you. We could also offer a subscription that replaces the food, first aid items and anything else with a use-by date before it expires, and reminds you twice a year to charge the power bank and check your medicines, so your kit is always ready.
Why not water? It's heavy and easy to store yourself. Aim for 3 litres per person, per day, for drinking.
This kit is for staying safely at home. It's different from a grab bag, which is for when you have to leave home in a hurry.
Your answers really help us decide whether to make the kit, and what to put in it. In the meantime, the official Be Ready checklist shows what to gather yourself.
Leave your email and we'll tell you when Ready at Home goes live. You can also tell us which other modules you'd find useful. It helps us decide what to build next.
We'll email you when Ready at Home goes live. While you wait, why not check how ready your home is today using the official Be Ready checklist?
Last updated: October 2026
This notice explains what information Be Ready at Home collects, why, and what you can do about it. We collect as little as we can.
Be Ready at Home is a training service run by Simon House Ltd. We're responsible for any personal information you give us on this website. You can contact us at hello@bereadyathome.co.uk.
If you sign up to be notified, we collect your email address, your first name (if you give it), whether you're signing up for your family or an organisation, and which modules interest you. We use this only to email you about Be Ready at Home: when modules launch, and things that help you get ready. Our lawful basis is your consent, which you give by ticking the box. You can withdraw it at any time.
If you answer our home emergency kit questions, we collect your answers. They're anonymous unless you choose to give your email address. We use them only to decide whether to offer a kit and what to put in it. If you give your email and tick the box, we'll use it only to tell you about the kit. Our lawful basis is your consent.
If you email us, we use your message and email address to reply to you.
When you visit the site, our hosting company automatically records technical information, such as your IP address and browser type, to keep the site running securely. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in running a safe, working website. We don't use this to identify you.
We don't use cookies, advertising or tracking tools, and we don't sell or share your details for marketing. The free module, the guides and the self-check don't need a login, and we don't collect personal information when you use them.
Some pages save things in your own web browser so they're there when you come back. This stays on your phone or computer. It isn't sent to us and we can't see it:
You can remove these by clearing your browser data, or with the "Clear my plan" button on the plan page.
If we start using a mailing-list service to send emails, we'll update this notice first and tell you.
You can ask us for a copy of your information, ask us to correct it or delete it, or object to how we use it. You can unsubscribe from any email by replying "unsubscribe", or by emailing hello@bereadyathome.co.uk. We'll respond within one month.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator.
Our sign-up and kit questions are for adults. If you're under 16, please ask a parent or carer before giving us your email address.
If we change this notice, we'll update the date at the top.