September is Preparedness Month — and we like where this is going
Author: Slightly Anxious Date: 14th September 2026 Time to read: 6 minutes
Slightly Anxious is here to help you turn any crisis into a manageable adventure — for you and everyone you care about.
September has quietly become the month the UK gets organised about the things it would rather not think about, and this year Slightly Anxious is delighted to be piggybacking on it!
What #30days30waysUK actually is
#30days30waysUK is a UK-wide community campaign that runs through September — National Preparedness Month — asking households to do one small, concrete preparedness task each day rather than one big overwhelming one. No bunker-building, no stockpiling for the apocalypse: just thirty small nudges, one a day, that add up to a household that copes rather than panics when something goes wrong.
That is exactly the philosophy this site was built on, so we are using the campaign as an excuse to round up four of our own favourite quick wins and put them in one place.
Four days worth stealing for your own household
Pick any four days this month and borrow these:
Pack it once — a grab bag takes twenty minutes to put together and then quietly does its job for years. We cover exactly what goes in it in ‘Slightly Anxious says Get a Grab Bag!’.
Plan for the dark — decide now where the torches live and who keeps a wind-up radio charged, not at 9pm during a power cut. Full detail in ‘What to do when the lights go out’.
Know your water plan — a few stored litres and a plan beats a mad dash to the shop when the taps stop, covered in ‘What to do when the water has been turned off with Slightly Anxious’.
Agree how you will talk — phone networks are the first thing to wobble in a genuine emergency, so agree a backup way to check on each other. See ‘How to keep informed and keep talking’.
A five-minute Preparedness Month checklist
If four days feels like three too many, do this instead — properly, five minutes, we timed it!
Find your bag — locate it, or admit you need to make one.
Charge something — a torch, a power bank, a wind-up radio, anything battery-free is a bonus.
Fill something — a few bottles of water tucked away costs nothing and buys you options.
Tell someone — agree with one other household member how you would reach each other if phones went down.
Follow along — the campaign posts a new nudge every day this month, so it does the remembering for you.
None of this requires a bunker, a fortnight's salary, or a personality transplant into someone who enjoys camping!
Remember, keep calm and visit us here.
Sources
#30days30waysUK — National Preparedness Month campaign, September 2026
gov.uk — Prepare for emergencies
gov.uk — National Risk Register
This blog post has been AI-assisted with human oversight
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