WRVS, anyone a volunteer or have relations/ freinds that are?

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Do any of you don a tabard and man a tea urn during floods and other assorted emergencies. Its more the emergency side of things I am inteerested in,

|Bump, although I know any decent lady that wears a tabard must be in bed, surely someones mum/ aunti/ granny grandad what ever must do this.

Bump, there must be someone

Didnt know the WRVS did this. Do they travel from elsewhere to these emergencies? I thought it was just local people who pulled together in village halls/community centres during emergencies/floods etc. I have relations who have helped out with WRVS in the past but only in local hospitals.

The WRVS have emergency services teams of volunteers, they are called out for various situations such as a prolonged fire where the firefighters and possibly evacuacted residents need refreshments.

The local councils emergency planning team will call out the WRVS to man rest centres and set up refreshments and I think bedding plus things like baby food and nappies.

They also work on helplines, and may deal with information desks and casualty bureas.

They get called out for train crashes, floods, major fires, bombs and bomb threats, gas explosions etc.

I am looking at a job with them and wondered if anyone had some stories from the field.