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Published by Loch Goil Community · 16 Jul 2026Community resilience, made practical
We make community resilience local.
Ready Scotland and GOV.UK Prepare set out how communities can prepare. Community Ready turns those principles into one practical local service.
Built on trust. Designed for communities.
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and offlineLocal control,
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national guidance
Turning preparedness guidance into practical local action
Preparedness becomes useful when people can put it into practice.
Ready Scotland and GOV.UK Prepare encourage communities to prepare before an emergency happens.
That means understanding local risks, communicating clearly, knowing where help and resources are, supporting people who may need assistance, and making plans that remain useful during disruption.
Community Ready helps communities put those principles into practice.01 · Preparedness outcome
Communicate when it matters
When something changes quickly, communities need a clear way to reach people with trusted local information.
During a power cut, severe weather event or other disruption, residents can be left relying on fragmented social-media posts, word of mouth or information published somewhere they do not normally look.
Community Ready gives the community a familiar route to share important local updates directly with residents. Alerts can direct people towards support, meeting points and trusted information, while keeping the same local source available as circumstances change.
Community Ready in practice
COMMUNITY ALERTnow
Power interruption affecting Lochgoilhead
Community Hub open from 6pmCommunity Ready · trusted local update
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance encourages communities to think in advance about how important information will be communicated during disruption.
02 · Preparedness outcome
Keep everyone informed
Emergency information works better when residents already know where to look.
A resilience system that people only encounter during an emergency is much less useful than one they already recognise and use.
Community Ready gives residents one familiar place for local information, community pages, notices and updates. When disruption happens, the same service can immediately become the place residents turn to for trusted information. People should not need to learn a new emergency system during an emergency.
Community Ready in practice
Good afternoon 👋
Stay informed. Stay prepared.
Power interruption affecting Lochgoilhead
Community Hub open from 6pm. Tap for the latest local update.
News
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance encourages communities to establish clear, familiar ways of sharing information and helping residents understand where trusted updates will come from.
03 · Preparedness outcome
Share trusted local information
Important local information should be easy to find and easy to trust.
Community information is often spread across Facebook groups, noticeboards, websites, emails and personal contacts. That makes it harder for residents to know which information is current and where they should look.
Community Ready creates one dependable local source for news and updates, helping communities reduce fragmentation and make important information easier to find.
Community Ready in practice
Lochgoil
News
Updates from trusted organisations in your community.
A few photos of Loch Goil Gala 2026.
Published by Loch Goil Community · 16 Jul 2026An update from your local community.
Published by Loch Goil Community · 14 Jul 2026Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance emphasises clear, trusted communication and helping people know where reliable information can be found.
04 · Preparedness outcome
Bring the community together
Connected communities are better able to respond when something goes wrong.
Community resilience is not only about emergency plans. It also depends on the relationships, groups and local activity that already exist before an emergency happens.
Community Ready helps residents discover events, meetings and local activity, strengthening the everyday connections that communities can rely on during difficult periods. Resilient communities are connected communities.
Community Ready in practice
Lochgoil
Events
Upcoming activities and selected events kept for the community record.
Open to the whole community.
Open to the whole community.
Practise local roles and community communication.
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance consistently highlights the importance of neighbours, local groups and community support.
05 · Preparedness outcome
Know local places and resources
People need to know where important local resources are before they need them.
Defibrillators, meeting points, warm spaces, charging locations and community facilities are only useful if residents know where to find them.
Community Ready brings important local locations together on one searchable community map. Residents can quickly search for places and use filters to identify the resources they need.
Community Ready in practice
Lochgoil
Map
Find useful places, homes and community resources.
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance encourages communities to understand local resources, meeting points and sources of help.
06 · Preparedness outcome
Have a plan when things go wrong
A community emergency plan is only useful if people can actually access and use it.
Emergency plans are often stored as PDFs or documents that few residents have seen.
Community Ready turns the plan into something practical. Residents can access emergency information, understand what to do, ask for help, offer help and work through preparedness checklists from the same familiar app. This moves community resilience from a document into everyday practical use.
Community Ready in practice
Lochgoil
Emergency
Key guidance remains available without an internet connection.
Community support
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance encourages people and communities to plan ahead, understand what they would do during disruption and support people who may need additional help.
07 · Preparedness outcome
Make support accessible to everyone
Community resilience works best when more people can access information and know where to ask for help.
Residents should not need to know which individual, committee or organisation is responsible for a particular issue before they can contact their community.
Community Ready provides a simple route into local organisations and includes accessibility controls that make information easier to use. This helps more residents take part and reduces unnecessary barriers to accessing local support.
Community Ready in practice
Lochgoil
More
Accessibility, contact and app login.
Accessibility
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance recognises that communities contain people with different needs and that information and support must be made as accessible as possible.
08 · Preparedness outcome
Keep vital information available during disruption
Resilience planning has to work when normal infrastructure does not.
Storms, power cuts and other emergencies can affect mobile networks and internet connectivity at exactly the point people need local information most.
Community Ready keeps essential parts of the service available offline. Residents can still access the community map and emergency information stored on their device even when connectivity is unavailable. Communities can plan for disruption rather than assuming perfect conditions.
Community Ready in practice
Lochgoil
Emergency
Key guidance remains available without an internet connection.
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance encourages communities to plan for the loss of normal services and consider how information and support will remain available.
09 · Preparedness outcome
Publish once. Keep every channel in step
Residents should receive the same trusted information whether they use the app or the community’s public website.
Maintaining separate apps and websites creates duplicated work and increases the risk that information becomes inconsistent or out of date.
Community Ready uses one managed source for both. Once content is approved and published, news, events, alerts, community pages, map locations and emergency guidance are reflected in the resident app and the public website automatically.
Community Ready in practice
Welcome to Lochgoil
Local information, together in one place.
News, events, useful places and practical emergency guidance from your community.Community Hub open from 6pm.
Trusted information from the local team.
Village Hall · Tomorrow
Support points and community assets.
Designed around preparedness principles. Preparedness guidance encourages communities to use clear, dependable communication channels and keep important information current and accessible.
A familiar place before, during and after disruption
One resident. One power cut. One place they already know.
Use Back and Next—or your left and right arrow keys—to follow the story.Scene 1 · Before the disruption
A useful warning, while there is still time to prepare.
High winds are forecast this evening. Open the household checklist to prepare.
Move towards Next Scene to view the checklist
Mains power on
At 3:42 PM the room is bright and calm. A Community Ready alert warns of possible power cuts and opens the household preparedness checklist.
Clear pricing
One complete local service.
No hidden product tiers. The resident app, public website and Community Portal are included.
- Annual subscription
- Per community, per year
- £800 + VAT
- Onboarding and administrator training
- A one-off charge in year one only
- £400 + VAT
Sources and guidance
Built around established resilience practice.
Community Ready is an independent product from Ionmhas Limited. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by the Scottish Government, UK Government, Ready Scotland or GOV.UK Prepare.
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