# SANCTUARY READY — FIELD MANUAL V2

**Region:** United Kingdom / Gateshead pilot  
**Edition:** 2.0 working field edition  
**Published:** 6 September 2026  
**Purpose:** practical offline household and community resilience reference.

This manual is deliberately broader and deeper than the V1 quick pack. It is designed to remain readable as a plain Markdown file on a phone, laptop, tablet, USB or Sanctuary Node.

**Emergency rule:** current instructions from emergency services, government, local authorities, utilities and health services always override this manual. For immediate danger call **999 or 112** when possible.

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# PART I — HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL

## 1. The first five minutes

When something goes wrong, do not begin with shopping lists. Begin with the situation.

1. **Immediate danger:** fire, smoke, structural damage, flood water, live electricity, gas, violence, traffic, chemical release or other immediate hazard.
2. **People:** account for children, dependants, older people, anyone with medical needs and pets.
3. **Official instruction:** check Emergency Alerts, emergency services, local authority, utility and trusted broadcast information.
4. **Shelter or leave:** decide only from the actual hazard. Fire may require immediate escape; radiation guidance may require staying indoors.
5. **Essential continuity:** water, medication, breathing/temperature, light, communications and safe food.

Do not turn one emergency into two by rushing into flood water, damaged buildings, downed power lines or an uncertain evacuation route.

## 2. The first hour

- Establish what has failed: electricity, gas, water, mobile, broadband, transport, payment systems, heating, refrigeration or several together.
- Write the time down.
- Note what official source gave the latest information.
- Put one phone into low-power information duty rather than having everyone constantly refresh feeds.
- Fill safe containers with water only when the supply is confirmed safe and an outage is likely.
- Gather medication, torches, radio, power banks and important paper information in one place.
- Check nearby people who depend on you when it is safe.
- Avoid unnecessary travel while the situation is unclear.

## 3. The first day

Think in systems rather than individual products:

- **Water:** how much safe water is actually available?
- **Food:** what will spoil first if power is off?
- **Temperature:** can the home stay safely warm or cool?
- **Health:** which medication or devices cannot be interrupted?
- **Information:** what works if mobile data stops?
- **Movement:** is staying put safer than travelling?
- **Money:** what happens if card terminals or banking apps fail?
- **Sanitation:** how will hands, waste and toilets be managed if water fails?
- **Community:** who needs help and what useful capacity already exists nearby?

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# PART II — READINESS LEVELS

## 4. Level A — 72 hours

The goal is to cope with a short disruption without panic buying or immediately depending on outside support.

### Information
- Printed household plan.
- Printed important contacts.
- Battery/wind-up radio.
- Saved offline maps.
- Sanctuary Ready Field Manual stored on more than one device where possible.

### Water
- Bottled drinking water rotated into ordinary use.
- Extra for babies, pets and medical needs.
- Water-company number written down.

### Food
- Three days of ordinary food that can be eaten with little or no cooking.
- Manual tin opener.
- Baby/pet/special-diet requirements.

### Power
- Torches rather than relying on candles.
- Spare batteries.
- Charged power banks and cables.
- Backup plan for essential powered medical equipment.

### Health
- Regular medication.
- Basic first-aid kit.
- Medication list and allergies.

### Weather
- Warm layers and blankets.
- Waterproof clothing.
- Cooling plan in hot weather.

## 5. Level B — two weeks

Add depth rather than exotic equipment.

- Larger rotating pantry based on meals the household already eats.
- Additional water where storage safely allows.
- Hygiene supplies that reduce water use.
- More battery capacity.
- Alternative safe cooking plan.
- Refill prescriptions in good time; do not stockpile controlled or prescription medicines outside normal clinical arrangements.
- Out-of-area contact and fallback meeting point.
- Household repair consumables.
- Seasonal weather protection.
- Neighbour/support map.

## 6. Level C — four weeks and community resilience

A four-week household is not expected to become self-sufficient. The point is to reduce fragility.

- Deeper pantry rotation.
- Better power resilience where affordable.
- More robust water storage and hygiene planning.
- Multiple offline information copies.
- Medical continuity plan discussed with relevant providers for refrigerated/powered treatment.
- Tools and repair knowledge.
- Local skills, charging, transport and safe-space map.
- Community stock and shared capacity rather than requiring every household to own everything.

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# PART III — WATER

## 7. Stored water

Water is usually more important than specialist survival equipment.

- Store sealed water in a cool, clean location.
- Rotate supplies rather than forgetting them for years.
- Separate drinking-water reserve from lower-priority cleaning use.
- Plan more for infants, pets, illness and some medical equipment.
- Do not assume a visually clean stream, river, pond, rain barrel or flood source is safe to drink.

UK preparedness guidance references roughly **2.5–3 litres per person per day as a survival drinking minimum**, with substantially more useful when basic cooking and hygiene are included.

## 8. Mains-water outage

- Check the water supplier first.
- Follow any **boil**, **do-not-drink** or **do-not-use** notice exactly.
- A do-not-use notice is more serious than a boil notice; boiling does not remove every chemical contaminant.
- Do not reconnect or improvise plumbing in a way that risks contaminating the mains.
- If water returns discoloured or unusual, follow the supplier’s flushing/safety instructions.

## 9. Making uncertain water safer

Priority order:

1. Use sealed safe water if available.
2. Follow official boil-water advice where issued.
3. Use a certified water-treatment product or filter according to its manufacturer instructions.
4. Treat filtration and disinfection as different functions: many filters do not remove viruses or chemicals.

Do not improvise chlorine/bleach dosing from memory because household bleach concentrations vary. Use product-specific or current official instructions.

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# PART IV — FOOD

## 10. Build a resilient pantry from normal food

Good emergency food is food the household already eats.

Include:
- tins and pouches;
- rice, pasta, oats and grains where cooking remains possible;
- nut butters and shelf-stable spreads where suitable;
- long-life milk alternatives where used;
- soups, beans, pulses, fish/meat tins;
- snacks that are useful for children or travel;
- baby food/formula as required;
- pet food;
- manual tin opener.

Use a **first in, first out** system so preparedness reduces waste instead of creating it.

## 11. Power-cut food safety

Food Standards Agency guidance is the authority.

General principles:
- Keep refrigerator and freezer doors shut.
- A closed fridge usually retains safe cold conditions only for a limited period.
- A well-filled freezer can remain frozen much longer than a fridge, but time varies with appliance, room temperature and how often it is opened.
- Group frozen food together before severe weather where practical.
- Do not taste questionable food to decide whether it is safe.
- Food touched by flood water should be treated as contaminated.

## 12. Cooking when the grid is down

- Prefer food requiring no cooking during short outages.
- Never use barbecues or fuel-burning outdoor stoves inside a house, garage, tent or enclosed space.
- Carbon monoxide can kill without obvious warning.
- If using a lawful outdoor cooker, keep it outside in open air and away from combustible materials.
- Store fuels legally and safely, away from children and ignition sources.

## 13. Supply-chain disruption

A shortage rarely means every food disappears at once.

Likely household stress points include:
- imported fresh produce;
- specialist infant/medical foods;
- cooking oils;
- coffee/cocoa and other imported commodities;
- some rice/grains depending on producing regions;
- fish/seafood routes;
- packaging and refrigeration dependent goods;
- transport-dependent just-in-time products.

Sanctuary should focus on substitution, recipes from existing stock, local surplus, community kitchens and reducing waste rather than fear-based hoarding.

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# PART V — POWER, HEAT AND LIGHT

## 14. Power cut

- Report/check outages through **105** in Great Britain.
- Use torches rather than candles where possible.
- Conserve phone batteries.
- Keep one device dedicated to updates.
- Unplug sensitive electronics if supply is unstable and it is safe to do so.
- Remember that boilers, broadband routers, mobile networks, lifts, fuel pumps and payment systems may also depend on electricity.

## 15. Battery planning

Prioritise:
1. medical devices;
2. one communications phone;
3. radio/information;
4. lighting;
5. secondary devices.

Label power banks with capacity and last charge date. Test them rather than assuming they still hold charge.

## 16. Heating loss

- Move household activity into one safer room if heat becomes limited.
- Layer clothing and bedding.
- Close unused rooms where appropriate.
- Keep ventilation sufficient for normal indoor air safety.
- Do not heat a room with a barbecue, camping stove, oven or other inappropriate combustion device.

## 17. Extreme heat without reliable power

- Shade windows during the hottest part of the day.
- Ventilate when outdoor air is cooler and conditions are safe.
- Reduce strenuous activity.
- Drink regularly.
- Pay extra attention to babies, older people, chronic illness and people using medicines that may affect heat tolerance.

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# PART VI — COMMUNICATIONS

## 18. Communications ladder

Use redundancy:

1. normal messaging/data;
2. SMS;
3. voice call;
4. out-of-area contact;
5. agreed household meeting point;
6. battery/wind-up radio;
7. local lawful PMR446 voice where chosen;
8. future Sanctuary Nearby low-bandwidth messaging;
9. paper notices/check-in points.

## 19. Low-bandwidth message format

Use:

`WHO | WHERE | STATUS | NEED | TIME`

Example:

`HOUSEHOLD | HOME | ALL SAFE | POWER OUT | NEED WATER UPDATE | 18:40`

Rules:
- short;
- factual;
- timestamped;
- no rumours;
- repeat only when necessary.

## 20. PMR446

PMR446 can provide short-range local voice communication with compliant licence-free equipment in the UK.

- Range varies drastically with terrain, buildings and equipment.
- Never promise “two miles” or any fixed distance.
- Do not use modified equipment outside lawful limits.
- It does not replace 999/112 or professional emergency radio systems.

## 21. Sanctuary Nearby / Node concept

Graceful degradation:

**Cloud → Sanctuary Node/Wi-Fi cache → nearby low-bandwidth link → lawful local radio → USB/device archive → paper.**

The Node should cache information, not centralise private household data by default.

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# PART VII — INFORMATION AND RUMOURS

## 22. Information triage

For every urgent claim ask:

- Who published it?
- When?
- Is it for this location?
- Is it a warning, forecast, rumour or confirmed incident?
- Can a second credible source verify it?
- Has an official instruction superseded it?

A dramatic screenshot without source/date/location is not reliable emergency information.

## 23. Daily Sanctuary brief rules

Every factor should carry:
- source;
- retrieval time;
- evidence date;
- geographic relevance;
- confidence;
- trend;
- local implication;
- action threshold.

The Sanctuary score is contextual and must never masquerade as an official government warning level.

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# PART VIII — FIRST AID AND MEDICAL CONTINUITY

## 24. Emergency medical priorities

Call **999/112** for life-threatening emergencies. Use **NHS 111** for urgent non-life-threatening advice when appropriate and available.

General first-aid priorities:
- make the scene safe;
- check response and breathing;
- control catastrophic bleeding with direct pressure where possible;
- get emergency help;
- follow dispatcher/AED prompts;
- keep monitoring until help arrives.

## 25. CPR and AED

For an unresponsive person who is not breathing normally, call 999/112 and begin CPR. Follow current NHS guidance and call-handler instructions. Use an AED as soon as available and follow its voice prompts.

A first-aid course is more valuable than relying on an offline paragraph in a crisis.

## 26. Burns

NHS guidance: cool a fresh burn/scald with cool running water for **20 minutes** as soon as possible. Do not put ice, butter, oils or creams on a fresh burn. Seek appropriate medical care for severe, deep, large, chemical, electrical or sensitive-area burns.

## 27. Medication continuity

Keep:
- medicine name;
- dose;
- schedule;
- allergies;
- prescriber;
- pharmacy;
- essential device requirements.

Do not change doses or ration prescriptions without clinical advice when advice is available. Build continuity through timely refills and an agreed plan, not unauthorised stockpiling.

## 28. Refrigerated and powered treatment

If a household depends on refrigerated medication, oxygen equipment, feeding pumps, dialysis-related equipment or other power-sensitive care, preparedness must be personalised with the relevant provider.

Record:
- minimum safe power requirement;
- battery runtime;
- backup provider contact;
- transport option;
- safe medication temperature requirements;
- who to call if continuity cannot be maintained.

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# PART IX — CHILDREN, OLDER PEOPLE, DISABILITY AND PETS

## 29. Infants and young children

Include:
- nappies;
- wipes;
- age-appropriate food;
- safe formula plan;
- medication;
- comfort item;
- clothing layers;
- car seat/buggy where required;
- paper guardian contacts.

Do not make last-minute improvisation around formula water safety. Ready-to-feed formula can reduce dependence on safe boiling/sterilising during some disruptions where appropriate.

## 30. Older people and disability

Plan around function, not labels.

Ask:
- Can the person climb stairs if lifts fail?
- Does mobility equipment need charging?
- Can they hear/see digital warnings?
- Is temperature control medically important?
- Are medicines time-critical?
- Is a carer likely to be cut off by transport disruption?

## 31. Pets

Keep:
- food and water;
- lead/carrier;
- medication;
- vet details;
- microchip information;
- waste bags/litter;
- backup carer.

Never leave animals in unsafe heat or flood conditions because an evacuation plan excluded them.

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# PART X — FIRE AND SMOKE

## 32. Building fire

- Get out.
- Stay out.
- Call 999.
- Do not delay to collect a grab bag or documents.
- Use planned escape routes.
- Never re-enter for possessions.

Smoke alarms and carbon-monoxide alarms should be maintained and tested according to manufacturer/fire-service guidance.

## 33. Outdoor smoke and poor air

- Follow local health/emergency instructions.
- Keep vulnerable people away from heavy smoke where possible.
- Close openings if advised to stay inside.
- Avoid adding indoor smoke or pollution.
- Seek urgent help for severe breathing difficulty.

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# PART XI — FLOODING

## 34. Before flood water arrives

- Monitor official flood warnings.
- Move people, pets, vehicles and valuables early when appropriate.
- Move electrical items higher if time and safety permit.
- Know how to isolate utilities.
- Prepare waterproof document storage.
- Keep a route to an upper/safe area if the local property plan calls for it.

## 35. During flooding

- Never assume road depth from appearance.
- Do not drive into flood water.
- Avoid walking through moving or contaminated flood water.
- Never touch electrical equipment while standing in water.
- Follow evacuation instructions.

## 36. After flooding

- Return only when safe.
- Treat flood water as contaminated.
- Photograph damage before disposal where practical.
- Do not energise wet electrical systems until checked.
- Follow food and drinking-water safety advice.
- Ventilate/dry the building safely and deal with mould early.

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# PART XII — STORMS, WIND, SNOW AND COLD

## 37. Severe wind/storm

Before:
- secure loose outdoor items;
- charge devices;
- avoid unnecessary travel;
- move vehicles away from obvious tree/building hazards if safe;
- prepare for power loss.

During:
- stay away from windows where debris risk is significant;
- avoid damaged trees and power lines;
- do not approach fallen electricity infrastructure;
- expect transport and communications failures to cascade.

## 38. Snow/ice

- Avoid unnecessary journeys.
- Carry warm clothing, water, food and power in vehicles.
- Keep paths safer where practical.
- Check heating and vulnerable neighbours.
- Protect pipes from freezing according to property guidance.

## 39. Cold-health risk

Cold risk rises with age, illness, poor housing, immobility and power/heating failure. Prioritise warm dry clothing, one heated living area, food/drink, medication and welfare checks.

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# PART XIII — HEAT

## 40. Heat-health routine

- Follow UKHSA/Met Office warnings.
- Keep curtains/blinds closed where solar gain is high.
- Open windows when outside air becomes cooler and it is safe.
- Drink regularly.
- Reduce exercise in peak heat.
- Check people who may not recognise or respond to heat stress.

Heatstroke is a medical emergency. Severe confusion, collapse, seizure or major deterioration in hot conditions requires urgent medical help.

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# PART XIV — RADIOLOGICAL / MAJOR INCIDENT

## 41. Radiation emergency

UK public guidance centres on:

### GO IN
Get indoors promptly.

### STAY IN
Remain sheltered. Close doors/windows and follow local instructions about ventilation.

### TUNE IN
Use official broadcasts, Emergency Alerts, police/local authority and GOV.UK updates.

Do not self-evacuate into uncertain conditions merely because you fear fallout. Authorities may later advise evacuation for specific areas.

## 42. Stable iodine

Take stable iodine **only if authorities specifically instruct people in your area to take it**. Ordinary iodine supplements are not a substitute for emergency potassium iodide arrangements.

## 43. Possible external contamination

If official guidance says you may have radioactive material on clothing, removing outer garments and isolating them from people can substantially reduce external contamination. Follow current UKHSA decontamination instructions rather than improvising aggressive cleaning.

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# PART XV — CHEMICAL / UNKNOWN AIR INCIDENT

## 44. Unknown fumes or chemical release

- Move away from the immediate source if you can do so safely.
- Call emergency services for dangerous exposure.
- Do not enter a contaminated area to investigate.
- Follow official shelter/evacuation instructions; the correct action depends on the chemical and wind/location.
- Do not mix household chemicals to create improvised decontamination agents.

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# PART XVI — CYBER, PHONE AND PAYMENT FAILURE

## 45. Communications outage

- Use paper contacts.
- Preserve battery.
- Try SMS if data is congested.
- Use radio/broadcast information.
- Use agreed meeting points only when travel is safe.

## 46. Payment outage

Maintain more than one lawful payment route where practical:
- payment card;
- modest emergency cash;
- access to more than one account/provider where appropriate.

Do not store large amounts of cash insecurely.

## 47. Emergency scams

During outages, distrust messages requesting:
- passwords;
- one-time codes;
- bank transfers;
- crypto payments;
- “emergency verification” through unknown links.

Verify through the organisation’s known contact route.

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# PART XVII — TRAVEL AND VEHICLES

## 48. Vehicle continuity kit

- torch;
- charging cable/power bank;
- water;
- food;
- warm/waterproof clothing;
- high-visibility clothing;
- basic first aid;
- seasonal ice/snow equipment where relevant;
- breakdown details.

## 49. Evacuation travel

- Follow official routes.
- Expect bridges, tunnels and major roads to congest.
- Keep more than one broad route option without treating any route as guaranteed.
- Do not route through active flood, fire, plume or police exclusion areas.
- Maintain fuel/charge rather than waiting until empty.

## 50. Stranding

If stranded, stop the situation worsening. Assess whether the vehicle/building is safer than moving into severe weather. Tell someone where you are if communications work. Follow emergency-service/road-operator advice.

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# PART XVIII — NAVIGATION AND MAPS

## 51. Offline maps

Maintain:
- Gateshead/Newcastle street map;
- regional road map;
- wider North East map;
- optional walking/topographic map where lawful/licensed.

GPS positioning can sometimes work without mobile data, but the map tiles must already exist on the device.

## 52. Paper maps

Paper is the final fallback. Mark only useful broad information:
- home area;
- family meeting points;
- hospitals/urgent care;
- support hubs;
- major rivers/flood context;
- broad road alternatives.

Do not turn the public Sanctuary map into detailed critical-infrastructure vulnerability or target mapping.

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# PART XIX — EVACUATION

## 53. When to leave

Leave when:
- authorities instruct evacuation;
- the building is on fire;
- structural conditions are clearly unsafe;
- flood/fire/chemical conditions make remaining more dangerous;
- essential medical continuity cannot be maintained and appropriate services direct relocation.

## 54. Grab bag

If time and safety allow:
- medication;
- medical device supplies;
- phone/charger/power bank;
- water;
- ready food;
- clothing;
- essential documents;
- keys;
- payment;
- household plan;
- baby/pet supplies.

Fire exception: leave immediately; do not collect possessions.

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# PART XX — SHELTERING AT HOME

## 55. Household continuity room

Choose a room suitable for the hazard and gather:
- water;
- medication;
- radio;
- torch;
- charging;
- food;
- blankets/cooling;
- first aid;
- paper information.

One “safe room” rule does not fit all hazards. Radiation sheltering and extreme-heat ventilation can require opposite actions.

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# PART XXI — HYGIENE, TOILETS AND WASTE

## 56. Hand hygiene

Prioritise safe hand hygiene before food preparation, after toilet use, after handling waste and before wound care.

When water is limited, alcohol hand sanitiser can supplement hygiene when hands are not visibly soiled, but it does not replace washing in every situation.

## 57. Toilet disruption

If water/sewer systems are officially declared unusable:
- follow council/water-company instructions;
- keep human waste isolated from food and living areas;
- use heavy-duty bags/containers only as a temporary controlled system if official/local arrangements require it;
- keep children/pets away;
- wash/sanitise hands carefully.

Do not discharge improvised waste into rivers, drains or public spaces.

## 58. Rubbish

Separate:
- food waste;
- contaminated waste;
- sharp/broken material;
- batteries/chemicals;
- ordinary dry rubbish.

Reduce odour, pests and cross-contamination.

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# PART XXII — HOME REPAIR AND TOOL CONTINUITY

## 59. Useful basic tools

- adjustable spanner;
- screwdrivers;
- pliers;
- hammer;
- utility knife used safely;
- tape;
- cable ties;
- work gloves;
- eye protection;
- bucket;
- basic fixings;
- torch/headlamp.

Do not attempt gas, mains electrical, structural or hazardous repair work beyond competence.

## 60. Temporary weather protection

The aim is to keep water/weather out until proper repair is possible:
- move possessions away from leaks;
- catch water safely;
- isolate electricity from water when advised/safe;
- use temporary sheeting only where it can be installed without falls or wind danger;
- photograph damage.

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# PART XXIII — GROWING, FOOD SKILLS AND LOCAL CAPACITY

## 61. Growing is resilience, not instant calories

Gardens and containers help over time but do not replace emergency food.

Useful knowledge:
- seasonal planting;
- potatoes;
- beans/peas;
- leafy greens;
- herbs;
- tomatoes/chillies where conditions suit;
- composting;
- seed saving where varieties permit;
- soil health and water conservation.

The Knowledge Vault should include reputable horticulture references rather than Sanctuary inventing agricultural instructions.

## 62. Food preservation

Preservation can introduce botulism and other hazards if done incorrectly. Use validated recipes and methods from reputable food-safety/agricultural-extension sources; do not improvise canning times or acidity.

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# PART XXIV — COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

## 63. What Sanctuary can coordinate

- verified welfare requests;
- transport capacity;
- charging points;
- safe spaces;
- spare rooms/community venues where lawful and safeguarded;
- food surplus;
- tools;
- repair skills;
- childcare/family support through appropriate safeguarded routes;
- translation;
- delivery to people unable to travel;
- public information printing.

## 64. What Sanctuary must not become

- an unofficial emergency service;
- a vigilante/security network;
- a place to publish private medical data;
- a map of exploitable infrastructure vulnerabilities;
- a source of unverified disaster rumours;
- a substitute for professional safeguarding.

## 65. Community check-in

Prioritise, when safe:
- people using powered medical equipment;
- isolated older people;
- people unable to receive digital alerts;
- families with infants;
- people without heat/water;
- households with mobility limitations.

Do not enter an unsafe area to make a welfare check. Escalate serious concerns through appropriate services.

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# PART XXV — KNOWLEDGE PRESERVATION

## 66. The Sanctuary Knowledge Vault

A robust offline archive should include layers:

### Layer 1 — Immediate survival
Sanctuary Field Manual, contacts, first aid links, household plans, local maps.

### Layer 2 — General encyclopedia
Offline Wikipedia through Kiwix.

### Layer 3 — Human history
Wikipedia History subset for small drives, or full Wikipedia for larger drives.

### Layer 4 — Primary sources
Wikisource: historical documents, speeches, literature and source texts.

### Layer 5 — Language
Wiktionary and language references.

### Layer 6 — Education
Wikibooks, Wikiversity, open textbooks, science simulations.

### Layer 7 — Repair and technical knowledge
iFixit, computing documentation, practical maintenance references.

### Layer 8 — Literature/culture
Project Gutenberg and other legally distributable archives appropriate to the country where the archive is used/distributed.

## 67. Human history is not one story

The archive should organise history by:
- chronology;
- geography;
- civilisation/culture;
- archaeology;
- migration;
- trade;
- religion/philosophy;
- science/technology;
- governance/law;
- war/conflict;
- disease/public health;
- climate/environment;
- economic systems;
- art/literature;
- primary-source evidence.

Keep competing interpretations visible. Preserve source dates and distinguish primary evidence from later synthesis.

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# PART XXVI — GATESHEAD / UK QUICK CONTACT LAYER

## 68. Core numbers

- **999 / 112** — immediate danger/life-threatening emergency.
- **NHS 111** — urgent health advice when appropriate.
- **101** — police non-emergency.
- **105** — electricity power cut/emergency contact in Great Britain.
- **Floodline:** 0345 988 1188.
- **Northumbrian Water emergency leakline where a leak stops supply:** 0800 393 084.
- **Gateshead Council Emergency Duty Team:** 0191 477 0844 for eligible out-of-hours social-care emergencies.
- **Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead A&E reception:** 0191 445 6145.
- **Gateshead Health switchboard:** 0191 482 0000.

Numbers can change. Check the version date whenever connectivity is available.

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# PART XXVII — SOURCE REGISTER

## 69. Priority authorities

This manual should be reviewed against:

- UK Government Prepare campaign — https://prepare.campaign.gov.uk/
- GOV.UK emergency/flood guidance — https://www.gov.uk/
- UK Health Security Agency — https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency
- NHS — https://www.nhs.uk/
- Food Standards Agency — https://www.food.gov.uk/
- Met Office — https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
- Environment Agency flood services — https://www.gov.uk/check-flooding
- Gateshead Council — https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/
- Gateshead Health — https://www.gatesheadhealth.nhs.uk/
- Northumbrian Water — https://www.nwl.co.uk/
- Kiwix official catalog — https://library.kiwix.org/

## 70. Freshness protocol

Every Sanctuary release should record:
- manual version;
- publication date;
- source verification date;
- local-contact verification date;
- archive versions;
- known stale sections;
- next review date.

When in doubt, label material **REVIEW REQUIRED** rather than silently pretending it is current.

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# FINAL PRINCIPLE

Preparedness is not a prediction that disaster will happen. It is the deliberate removal of avoidable single points of failure.

Sanctuary Ready should make useful knowledge, community capacity and basic continuity easier for ordinary households to access — including households with limited money, storage, mobility or technical confidence.

**End of Sanctuary Ready Field Manual V2.**