Free household preparedness tools

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Simple, free planners to help UK households get ready for power cuts, card outages and other disruption. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.

Planners

Cash

How much cash should I keep at home?

Work out a sensible amount of cash for food, fuel, bus fares and medicines if card payments stop working, using real, sourced UK prices. Shows every step and suggests which notes and coins to keep.

Guides that go with them

When cards, banks or systems go down: what to do if you can't pay by card.
Power cuts: before, during and after.
The universal basics: eight things that cover almost any disruption.
72-hour and 7-day home plan: a written plan for your household.
When everyday services fail: how one outage nudges another.

More tools are on the way.

Updated 1 November 2026.