Community Resilience

Beaminster Town Council has taken the lead on Community Resilience within Beaminster and developed a Community Resilience plan to ensure measures are in place to react to a variety of emergency situations from within Beaminster to provide support where there are delays in the arrival of a professional emergency response.

The Community Resilience Plan is currently being updated with regard to contact details and procedures.  In the meanwhile should there be an emergency situation details of those to contact are detailed below.

In the event of heavy rainfall and the Environment Agency having issued a flood warning for the river Brit sandbags are available from the Town Council for residents and businesses where there is the threat of imminent flooding of property.

If sandbags are required during office hours please phone (01308) 863634, for out of hours assistance please call a member of the Emergency Response Team:

Beaminster Town Council Emergency Response Team members are:-

Councillor Richard Gunning                                    07931 836416

Councillor David Gillings                                         07710 105908

For all other emergency situations please contact the relevant authority below:-

Emergency Services

Police, Fire & Rescue, Ambulance, Coastguard: Call 999

Dorset Council’s Emergency Planning Officers:-

Nigel Osbourne                (01305) 224953 (Office) or 07808 302750 (Duty Officer – Out of hours)

Jess Rice                          (01305) 838023 (Office) or 07964 379758 (Duty Office – Out of hours)

Environment Agency:-

Incident Hotline:               0800 80 70 60

Western Power Distribution

Emergency Line:              0800 6783 105 or call 105

Wessex Water

24 hour service:               0345 600 4 600 (24 hours)

Gas

Transco – Gas emergency      0800 111999

If you are interested in becoming a Community Warden please call 01308 863634

Volunteers

There are many volunteer opportunities within Beaminster to get stuck in to. Whether it is with the church, youth groups, community resilience, town events and vaccination programmes or environmental programmes, the Foodbank, the Community Fridge, the information centre or clubs and organisations there is always some way to help.

If you are interested in volunteering opportunities in the town please contact us at and we will point you in the right direction.